Franzis publishing house
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The Franzis Verlag (proper spelling Franzis Verlag ) is one of the oldest technical publishing houses in Germany and is a subsidiary of WEKA Media Group . The GmbH is based in Haar near Munich .
Origin and history
In 1920, shortly after the First World War , Franzis emerged from the Franz'schen Druckerei, which was founded in 1828 - hence the name - in the center of Munich and supplied magazines for the emerging medium of radio . The first book publications on radio technology appeared in the 1930s.
After the time of National Socialism and the end of the Second World War , a new company was founded in 1948 as a specialist book and magazine publisher for entertainment electronics a . a. the specialist magazines ELO and Funkschau . In the 1980s the publisher also published on industrial electronics and computers.
In 1991 the WEKA-Holding acquired the Franzis-Verlag and gathered it three years later with 16 magazines like connect , PC Magazin , PCgo , Elektronik , Markt & Technik as well as computer reseller news in the "WEKA-Mediengruppe" first in Poing and later in Haar near Munich.
Portfolio
The "Experimentation" area of Franzis-Verlag developed from the electronics book program, the traditional core business of the publisher, and provides almost 100 learning packages, experiment kits and kits - such as bat detectors, radio kits, V8 engine models or Stirling engines . for those interested in hobby. The coming from the US maker movement provides Franzis since 2010 board as an official distributor of Arduino and nearly 25 book titles about as well as the micro-computer Raspberry Pi .
Franzis-Verlag has been selling HDR software in the “photography” area since 2008, including its own development, HDR projects . In addition, the publisher offers over 30 photo software products for amateur and professional photographers and a photo book program with over 100 titles.
In the area of “programming”, among other things, the “ HTML manual” by Stefan Münz and Clemens Gull , which has been published since 1997, is offered. Almost 80 other titles are available as printed or electronic books.