Johann Wilhelm Naumann Publishing House

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The Johann Wilhelm Naumann Verlag is a German book and magazine publisher based in Würzburg . He is a member of the Catholic Media Association . The management is held by Oliver Maksan , who is also editor-in-chief of the publisher's most important publication organ, the Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost .

The publishing house, which was decidedly Catholic from the start , was founded in 1945 by the publisher Johann Wilhelm Naumann in Göggingen near Augsburg. At Naumann in the early years a. a. publishes the Schwäbische Landeszeitung initiated with Curt Frenzel . From 1946 onwards, after another US license had been granted, the Catholic monthly magazine Neues Abendland was published . Journal for politics, culture and history until it was acquired by Erich von Waldburg-Zeil in 1951 and integrated into the newly founded publishing house Neues Abendland . In 1948 Naumann gave up his license share in the Schwäbische Landeszeitung and became the license holder of the Augburger Tagespost , the first denominational daily newspaper in the American occupation zone , which appeared in Augsburg until the end of 1949 . In 1951 the publishing house moved to Regensburg , where the newspaper is now known as the national German daily mail. Katholische Zeitung for Germany appeared (since 1999: Die Tagespost. Katholische Zeitung for politics, society and culture ). In 1956 the publishing house moved to Würzburg. With Naumann's death in the same year, the publishing house passed to his widow Gertrud Naumann and remained in the family of the founding publisher until 1993.

From 1946 to 1949, Naumann published the Occidental Series (also: "Abendland-Reihe"). The authors of the series included u. a. Joseph Bernhart , Walter Ferber , Otto Flachsbart , Ferdinand Kirnberger , Reinhold Schneider , Joseph Schumacher , Karl Stoevesandt and Paul Wilhelm Wenger . Since 1976, the speeches have been relocated to the time of the Würzburg Institute for Democracy Research . Furthermore, recently published by Naumann u. a. Rainer Beckmann , Lothar Bossle , Alfred Dregger , Theodor Herr , Stephan Otto Horn , Pascalina Lehnert , Nikolaus Lobkowicz , Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Gerard Radnitzky , Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger , German Rovira , Fritz Schenk , Wilhelm Schamoni , Hugo Staudinger and Harald Vocke .

1961 was in the publishing program Die Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . Catholic newspaper for politics, society and culture (short: Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ) added. One year later, Der Pfälzer became . The general Sunday newspaper removed from the Landauer Verlag and merged with the Sunday newspaper. The last independent edition appeared in 1969. In the same year the publisher was given the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG . In 1993 the publishing house was bought by the Catholic Echter Group and converted into a GmbH . With the acquisition of the shares from Echter, the Johann Wilhelm Naumann Foundation has been the sole owner of the publisher since November 2017 and of the newspaper Die Tagespost, which it has only published as a weekly newspaper since the beginning of 2018 . At the same time, the general Sunday newspaper , which until then had been part of the Saturday edition of the daily mail as a weekend supplement , was finally discontinued.

The owner's foundation is chaired by Norbert Neuhaus ( CDU ), a former head of the economic department and vice-mayor of Trier , who was general secretary of the church aid organization Kirche in Not International from 2004 to 2006 . He is also co-editor of Vatican Magazin and since 1977 a member of the Catholic lay community Opus Dei . It has been known for decades that employees or those responsible for the daily mail are close to or belong to this organization.

Johann Wilhelm Naumann Verlag is a member of the German Book Trade Association .

literature

  • Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog (Hrsg.): Documentation of German-language publishers (= documentation of German-language publishers . Edition 4). Olzog, Munich a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-7892-7034-2 , p. 347.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our members: Johann Wilhelm Naumann Verlag GmbH , kathischer-medienverband.de, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Doris von der Brelie-Lewien : Catholic magazines in the western zones 1945-1949. A contribution to the political culture of the post-war period (= Göttingen building blocks for historical science . Vol. 53). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-7881-1056-2 , p. 52.
  3. ^ Jürgen Klöckler : Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 112.
  4. ^ Alois Knoller, Brigitte Schürmann: Augsburger Tagespost. In: Augsburger Stadtlexikon.de. March 1, 2011.
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  12. ↑ Roland Morgen: A man for all cases. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , February 22, 2010, accessed March 2019.
  13. ↑ Dr. Norbert Neuhaus. Curriculum vitae on the website of the Forum German Catholics , viewed in March 2019.
  14. ↑ Martin Haidinger : Opus Dei - The Catholic Riddle. In: the same with Heiner Boberski u. a .: Powerful. Male. Mysterious. Secret societies in Austria. Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-902404-16-7 , pp. 189–220 (here: p. 199).
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  16. ^ David Neuhold: Franz Cardinal König - Religion and Freedom. A theological and political profile. (= Studies on Christian religious and cultural history ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, p. 147.
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