Koehler & Amelang

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The Koehler & Amelang publishing house is a German publisher based in Leipzig .

history

The publishing house goes back to the publishing houses of Karl Franz Gottfried Koehler (1764–1833), founded in 1789, and Carl Friedrich Amelang (1785–1856), founded in 1806. These were gradually amalgamated from 1917 onwards, resulting in Koehler & Amelang publishing house on May 12, 1925, owned by Koehler & Volckmar , bar assortment and publishing house delivery. From 1915 Hermann von Hase (1880–1945) was a partner and director of the publishing house, which in 1933 became a member of the NSDAP . During the time of National Socialism , Koehler & Amelang published several nationalistic and ethnic-oriented writings in the German Ahnenerbe series , published by the German Ahnenerbe Research Foundation . Hase left the publishing house in 1938.

In 1947 the publishing house received a new license in the Soviet zone of occupation, but was nationalized in 1950. On January 1, 1951, the publishing house was transferred to the holding company of the GDR CDU VOB Union Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH for use in legal ownership. There was close cooperation with Union Verlag Berlin , which also belonged to the GDR CDU. In 1951, the expropriated Koehler family founded a new publishing house in the Federal Republic of Germany under the name Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft .

The publishing directors were Hellmut Köster from 1946 to 1950, Gerhard Desczyk from January 1951 to 1958 , Karl Wagner from 1958/59, Karl Nitsche in 1960 and Hubert Faensen from December 1, 1960 to 1990 . Under his leadership, the publishing house became one of the GDR's export publishers. Over half of the publisher's titles were sold to the West as licenses. In return, however, it was also possible to publish important Western publications on art history under license in the GDR. In particular, the “Cultural Studies Series” founded in 1961 had great success with more than 100 volumes.

After German reunification, the publishing house was converted into a GmbH in June 1990, in which the CDU held 50% of the shares, the rest went to three employees as shareholders. After the CDU renounced ownership of its old assets on November 15, 1990, the Treuhandanstalt sold all CDU publishers to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . On February 7, 1991 a partner left the company, in 1992 it was merged with Union Verlag, and in 1993 it was merged with Munich-based art book publisher Klinkhardt & Biermann . In 1994 the Christian art publisher HC Schmiedicke was added, the group operated under the name Koehler & Amelang. In 1992 the Leipzig branch was given up and the company moved to new headquarters in Berlin, and in 1994 the company moved to Munich. In 2000 the group went to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . As a result of the separation of the FAZ from its book publishers, Koehler & Amelang was sold to the publishing group Seemann Henschel with retroactive effect from January 1, 2004, and the publishing house became Leipzig again.

Archived material from the Koehler & Amelang publishing house up to 1999 is in the Leipzig State Archives .

program

Today's program of the publisher mainly includes historical and cultural-historical topics, as well as books on Saxon history and on topics relating to Berlin and Brandenburg.

literature

  • 50 years of Koehler & Amelang. Börsenblatt interview with Dr. sc. Hubert Faensen . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel (Leipzig) 142, 1975, pp. 934–936.
  • Complete directory 1951–1987. Two hundred years of Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig, Berlin, 1789–1989 . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1988.
  • Karl Gutzmer : Koehler & Amelang . In: Lexicon of the entire book system , 2nd edition, Volume 3, Stuttgart 1995, p. 262.
  • Gunda Beuthien: The Union publishing house of the Eastern CDU. Origin and development of the publishing house until the 1960s, taking into account its relationships with the publishing houses Koehler & Amelang and Wolfgang Jess . In: Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte 10, 2000, pp. 249–340.
  • Helmut Bähring, Kurt Rüddiger: Lexicon book city Leipzig. From the beginning until 1990 . Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2008, ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0 , pp. 152-153.
  • Christoph Links : The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-523-2 , pp. 266-268.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Tatjana Bartsch, Jörg Meiner (Ed.): Art: Context: History. Festival ceremony for Hubert Faensen on his 75th birthday . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Verlagsgruppe Seemann Henschel acquires Koehler Amelang Verlagsgesellschaft . Book Market July 26, 2004.