Hallwag

The Hallwag AG was established in 1912 in Bern publishing with printing. The name derives from the name Hall he and Wag from ner.

Otto Richard Wagner came from Rottenburg am Neckar. He was owner of the Wagner Publishing Company and took over, which was founded in 1711, in Bern based Haller Buchdruckerei AG.

The Automobil Revue (1906 to present), the Sport (1920 to 1999) and the Technical Review -known products of the publishing house were. Road maps were issued from the 1920s , and books were increasingly published from the 1940s. From the Hallwag Publishing Company Ltd (Bern, Stuttgart and Vienna), the yearbooks were Helveticus (32 volumes, 1941-1972) and Columbus moved, directed general education of children and youth.

The Benteli 1998 Druck AG took over the pressure range. In 2001 the publishing house Graefe & Unzer bought the book division. In 2001 Hallwag was taken over by MairDumont . At the end of 2001 the map publishing company of Kümmerly + Frey and Hallwag was merged to Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey .

literature

Andrea Weibel: Hallwag. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

• Herbert Knuchel, Karl Lüönd : The winding ride. 100 years of Hallwag - an eventful publishing history. Hallwag, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-8283-0781-0

Web links

• Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey website
• Milestones in the history of MairDumont. In: MairDumont website (PDF; 36 kB)