Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin

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Exhibition stand in Leipzig, 1951
Special issue of the SED magazine Einheit published by Dietz for Stalin's 70th birthday, December 1949

The Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin was founded in 1946 and went out of the publishers Neuer Weg and forward out. At the beginning it was called J. H. W. Dietz Nachf. GmbH . Later it was run as Dietz Verlag for many years due to a legal dispute . Since January 1st, 1999 the publishing house has been called Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin GmbH . Important editions of the publisher's works are the Marx-Engels works and the writings of Rosa Luxemburg . The publishing house is located in the Neues Deutschland publishing house .

history

On June 18, 1946, the publishing house J. H. W. Dietz was founded by Alfred Oelßner and Richard Weimann on behalf of the SED in order to build on the Dietz publishing house founded by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz at the turn of the year 1881/1882 on behalf of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . The party had apparently entrusted this private citizen and SPD member with the management of the party publisher under his name, since it was not possible for the SPD to own publishers during the period of socialist persecution under Bismarck . In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dietz published books by German labor movement authors such as Karl Marx , Rosa Luxemburg , Wilhelm Liebknecht and Friedrich Engels and many others.

The politician Kurt Schumacher then filed an objection on behalf of the SPD against this publisher's name, because the SED believed that the traditional social-democratic publisher's name had been illegally appropriated. The registry court rejected the publisher's entry three times due to the rule that the name of a non-shareholder may not be used in the case of start-ups. Therefore, the SED founded on August 19, 1947, Karl Dietz , the publishing director of Access publisher to Rudolstadt , and the VOB Zentrag as shareholders the Dietz Verlag GmbH , based in Berlin. Publishing directors were Fritz Schälike (1946–1962) and Günter Hennig (1962–1990). Dietz-Verlag published the most important ideological works of the SED , the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Lenin and the SED theoretical organ Unity .

The Dietz-Verlag was the central party publisher of the SED and organizationally affiliated to its Central Committee (ZK). The publications were subject to the ideological guidance and control of the Propaganda Department, but other departments and commissions of the Central Committee as well as other party institutions such as the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , the party college or the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED influenced the publishing program to match the official party line.

After German reunification , the PDS and Dietz Verlag took legal action at the Berlin Administrative Court against the liquidation of the publisher and for a release from the Treuhandanstalt , which took place on February 28, 1994. Based on the decision of the administrative court, PDS was the publisher's main shareholder. On April 22, 1997 there was another lawsuit because of the risk of confusion with the SPD-affiliated publisher J. H. W. Dietz Successor GmbH Bonn . In 1998 it was agreed to include the name Karl  - von Karl Dietz - in the name of the Berlin publisher, so that the name of the publisher has been Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin since then.

In 1999, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation made Dietz Verlag their in-house publisher. The Marx-Engels-Werke have been fully available again since 2009 and continued with Volume 44 in 2017.

literature

  • Horst Heidermann : On the post-war history of the JHW Dietz publishing house . In: Angela Graf: JHW Dietz. 1843-1922 . Verlag JHW Dietz Successor, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-8012-4089-4 , pp. 299-317.

Web links

Commons : Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Angela Graf: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz - publisher of the social democracy. Biographical approach to political life. Diss. Berlin 1998. Foreword.
  2. ↑ Horst Heidermann: Resurrection and Resurrection - JHW Dietz from 1945 until today . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , April 17, 2007, p. 81 (pdf; 107 kB).
  3. ^ Dietz Verlag. Introduction. On the history of Dietz-Verlag , in: Bundesarchiv, DY30, edited by Andreas Diehl, Andreas Horn, Anja Klimaczewski, accessed on November 17, 2018