Gustav Fischer Verlag

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The Gustav Fischer Verlag was a German scientific publisher in 1878 in Jena founded. It celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2008. This anniversary coincided with the 450th anniversary of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the events on "Jena - City of Science 2008".

Publishing history

1877-1946

In 1877 Gustav Paul Danckert Fischer took over the bankruptcy estate of the Jena publishing house Hermann Dufft and continued the business since 1878 under the name Gustav Fischer Verlag "formerly Friedrich Mauke". In 1880, the publishing house moved into the publishing house in villa aisle 2a and the associated paper warehouse at Hainstrasse 1 in Jena.

In 1901 Gustav Paul Danckert Fischer adopted his nephew and later successor Gustav Adolf Fischer (1878–1946), who joined the publishing house in 1905. The founder Gustav Paul Danckert Fischer died on July 22, 1910, only a few months after his wife Minna (née Des Arts, used Mauke; † February 27).

To mark the 50th anniversary of the publishing house, an almost 1000-page complete directory was published in 1928. In 1943 the daughter of Gustav Adolf Fischer, Annelise von Lucius, joined the management. American troops occupied Jena on April 13, 1945, and in early July they surrendered the city to Soviet troops. The publishing activity was temporarily stopped and resumed in autumn. In 1946, Annelise von Lucius took over the management of the publishing house after the death of Gustav Adolf Fischer.

1948-1989

In 1948 Gustav Adolf Fischer's son-in-law, August von Breitenbuch (born 1900), founded the Piscator Verlag in Stuttgart after returning from American captivity . Piscator Verlag Stuttgart and Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena exhibited together for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1950 . After the expropriation of the Jenaer Verlag in 1953, the management also moved to Stuttgart, while the Piscator Verlag was dissolved.

From 1957 there was a location in Stuttgart parallel to the Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena . First in Stafflenbergstrasse 36, from 1969 in the new publishing house at Wollgrasweg 49 in Stuttgart. In 1960 Bernd von Breitenbuch and Wulf-Dietrich von Lucius joined the publishing house as partners. In 1976 the subsidiary "Gustav Fischer New York Inc." was founded

In 1968 the series gft (= Gustav Fischer pocket books) was first published. In 1970 the Uni-Taschenbücher (UTB) were founded with the participation of Gustav Fischer Verlag.

1990-2008

Gustav Fischer Verlag was separated from the VEB Kombinat Volk und Gesundheit on June 29, 1990 and re-established as Gustav Fischer Verlag GmbH.

In April 1991 Wulf-Dietrich von Lucius and Bernd von Breitenbuch were able to buy back Gustav Fischer Verlag from the Treuhand and were entered in the commercial register as additional managing directors. The Gustav Fischer publishers in Stuttgart and Jena were contractually linked and coordinated their programs among themselves. In November 1992 the Holtzbrinck publishing group took over the majority of Gustav Fischer Verlag. In October 1995 the publishing house Gock & Evers was bought. The books were published in Jena.

In August 1996 the publishers Gustav Fischer Jena, Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart and Jungjohann-Verlagsgesellschaft Lübeck merged to form Gustav Fischer Verwaltungsgesellschaft under Holtzbrinck. Structural and program changes followed. The veterinary medicine division was sold to Enke. In 1997 the entire book program in biology and medicine moved to Stuttgart. Service Fachverlagsgesellschaft (SFG) in Kusterdingen took over the book and magazine delivery in Jena. The magazine delivery and subscription management remained as a department of the SFG on site in Jena. Jena became the competence center for all journals published by Gustav Fischer. At the same time, the international magazine business began expanding through the signing of the subscription management and advertising contract with Stockton Press. The entry into e-commerce began. In January 1998 there was a program swap with the Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, which brought the publisher four new profitable journals.

1999 saw the merger between the publishers Urban & Schwarzenberg and Gustav Fischer to form Urban & Fischer Verlag. The branches were located in Munich and Jena. In June 1999, the Jena publishing house moved from the venerable publishing house on the villa corridor to the Löbdergraben. In January 2000, magazine sales were reintegrated into Urban Fischer Verlag. At the end of 2000, the archive on the Villengang and on Hainstrasse were cleared. The entire archive was donated to the Thuringian Central State Archive in Weimar . In January 2002, sales activities for external publishers were expanded.

On January 1, 2003, Holtzbrinck sold Urban & Fischer Verlag Munich and Jena, SAV Heidelberg, SFG Kusterdingen and Rothacker Munich to Elsevier . Elsevier sold Rothacker in 2005 and SAV in 2007 as part of its strategic goals. In January 2007, the accounting department in Jena was also closed and magazine marketing was taken over by the Munich colleagues. In August 2007, the goal of “Jena will be transformed into a pure production site” was formulated by the management in the form of “Agenda 2011”. As it was already shown in September, this was only a verbal preparation for the handling of the handover of the magazine production to Amsterdam and Shannon / Ireland. In autumn 2007, the first unofficial information about the outsourcing of production was released, which was officially confirmed on January 14, 2008.

On September 30, 2008, the 130-year publishing history of Gustav Fischer Verlag in Jena ended.

Major publications by the publisher

Web links

Commons : Gustav Fischer Verlag  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gustav Fischer Verlag: Hundred Years of Gustav Fischer Verlag. 1878, 1948, 1978. Publishing history, list of books and magazines published in Stuttgart since 1948. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1978. ISBN 3-437-50227-1 .
  • Friedrich Lütge : The publishing house Gustav Fischer in Jena. Its history and prehistory. On the occasion of the company anniversary. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1928.
  • Frank Boblenz : To index the correspondence of the Gustav Fischer publishing house in Jena. - In: Archives in Thuringia 1/2007, pp. 23-25.