Gsur publishing house

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The Gsur-Verlag was a publisher in Austria in the interwar period run by Ernst Karl Winter , which was particularly dedicated to the fight against National Socialism .

Emergence

"Gsur & Co." The company was founded in 1929 through the takeover of Vogelsang-Buchhandlungs- und Verlags Ges.mbH. The publisher had been a general partnership since January 29, 1930. Gusti Gsur, businesswoman and owner of a Viennese paper shop, acted as partners Ernst Karl Winter, writer. Only the latter was authorized to represent, and after a few months the publisher's namesake left the company by mutual agreement and left Ernst Karl Winter to continue the company on April 13, 1930.

The publishing address was first Vienna 8th, Piaristengasse 5, then from 1934 Winter's private apartment in Vienna 18th, Ladenburggasse 58/12 (today's Thimiggasse).

The Gsur-Verlag produced 1930–33 and 1935–36 - in the meantime, Winter was appointed Vice Mayor of Vienna and put the publishing house on hold for a while. From 1935 the publishing house resided briefly in the former forward house .

In 1936 Winter was forced to stop publishing. The main reason for this was the growing pressure from Germany, but also internal political opposition, for example from the homeland security against winter, which was too pro-worker and anti-fascist line.

Despite the forced closure, Winters' publishing license initially remained in place and was only withdrawn by Winter in autumn 1937.

The first phase

1930–33 Winter's political line can be described as "Catholic-conservative". Ernst Karl Winter himself published Plato in 1930 . The sociological in the theory of ideas. With an iconographic excursus . This was followed by a few series of publications. Winter published the series of Viennese sociological studies , in which three issues, such as B. Hans Eibls Von Augustinus zu Kant , published. In 1930 the publishing house Gsur u. Co. also started to publish a series of books which, in terms of conception and design, represented a new religious and patriotic book type. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the liberation of the Turks, published in 1933:

  • Marco D'Aviano OM cap. His time and his work. Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the liberation of the Turks in Vienna . Published by Karl-Johannes Grauer, EK Winter, HK Zeßner-Spitzenberg .
  • Holy Vienna. A guide to Vienna's churches and chapels (edited by Alfred Missong ).

Already in 1932 two writings by the Franciscan Father Zyrill Fischer with the title Die Hakenkreuzler and (as an excerpt) Die Nazisozis had a clearly anti-Nazi character . Almost 15,000 of these were sold within six months. In November 1932, Thomas Murner's Der Nazispiegel (pseudonym) was published. On April 16, 1933, the journal Wiener Politische Blätter, edited by Ernst Karl Winter, appeared for the first time . The first issue was banned in Germany.

The second phase

In 1935/36 the publisher's publications were essentially only on a sharp anti-Nazi line. Published within 15 months:

  • Walter Mehring : Müller. Chronicle of a German clan. (Novel, 1935)
  • Hermynia Zur Mühlen : Our daughters, the Nazins. (1935)
  • Andreas Hemberger : Barabbas. Story from the time of Christ. (1936)
  • Peter Drucker : The Jewish question in Germany. (1936)
  • Walter Berger: What is race? Attempt to delimit their effectiveness in the mental area. Taking into account the Jewish race problem. Edited by the Philipp Spitta Memorial Society (1936)
  • Albert Ganzert (pseudonym): The limit. One fate out of 600,000. (Stage play, 1936)
  • Theodor Kramer : With the accordion. (Lyric, 1936)
  • Ernst Karl Winter: Rudolph IV. Second Volume (1936)

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