Concentration GmbH
The concentration GmbH was one of the SPD to support established and operated company with the purpose of social democracy related media companies and form a counterweight to the conservative media groups. Concentration GmbH also participated in newspaper publishers and printing companies. The corporation operated as a GmbH , but was internally structured and organized as a cooperative .
founding
The social democratic concentration GmbH saw itself as an "interest group of commercial and publishing companies". It was founded on October 29, 1946, it was supposed to function as a kind of holding company and support party-owned or the SPD-related publishers and printers. The managing director was the former press chief of the SPD, Fritz Heine , and chairman of the supervisory board was the then treasurer Alfred Nau . The company was based in Hanover .
aims
The original task was the inexpensive purchase of paper and auxiliary materials, the joint training of editors and typesetters and the support of the associated companies by expert auditors. The concentration GmbH was not owned by the party, but by around 40 shareholders, who were largely identical to the affiliated companies. In the 1960s this holding company was involved in 26 newspaper publishers, 30 printing houses, five book and magazine publishers, eight bookstores and eight other companies and organizations.
History before 1933
The (first) concentration AG was founded in 1925 and dissolved by the Nazis in 1933. This company was completely in the hands of the SPD executive committee, it also owned the party publishers and printing houses of the time. In addition to technical advice and commercial revision, one of the tasks of concentration at that time was to exercise a strong centralistic influence on the content of the party-affiliated sheets. The editors of these publishers had to be members of the SPD. Concentration GmbH after 1946 could and should no longer have any influence on the personnel policy of the affiliated companies.
Affiliated companies (selection, as of 1960)
News agency
Book and magazine publishers
- arani Verlags-GmbH , Berlin-Grunewald
- Verlag Druckhaus GmbH, Bielefeld
- Publishing house Neue Gesellschaft GmbH, Bielefeld
- Publishing house Schaffende Jugend GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
- Torch bearer publishing house Schmidt-Küster GmbH, Hanover
- Publishing house for literature and current affairs, Hanover
- Publishing house JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH , Hanover
- Publishing house "Die Brücke" GmbH, Munich
Bookstores
- iwag intern. Advertising and advertising GmbH wholesale bookstore, Berlin-Gr.
- Phönix-Buchhandlung GmbH, Bielefeld
- Volksbuchhandlung Braunschweig, Braunschweig
- Oliva bookstore, Cuxhaven
- Bücher-Börse Union GmbH assortment and specialist bookstore, Frankfurt am Main
- Auer bookstore, Hamburg
Print shops (selection)
- New Augsburger Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Augsburg
- Graphic Society Grunewald GmbH, Berlin-Grunewald
- Bonn-Druck Storbeck & Co KG, Bonn
- Braunschweig-Druck GmbH Printing and Publishing Company, Braunschweig
- Bremen book printing and publishing company JH Schmalfeldt & Co, Bremen
- Druckhaus Deutz GmbH, Düsseldorf
- Union-Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
- Göttinger Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt mbH, Göttingen
- Hamburg printer and publishing house Auerdruck GmbH, Hamburg
- Hannoversche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hanover
- Buchdruckwerkstätten Hannover GmbH, Hannover-Linden
- Vereindruckerei Heilbronn eGmbH, Heilbronn aN
- Hildesheimer Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Hildesheim
- Upper Franconian Publishing House and Printing Company GmbH, Hof / Saale
- Karlsruher Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Karlsruhe
- Haase-Druck GmbH, Kiel
- Kiel print shop, Kiel
- Druckhaus Deutz GmbH, Cologne-Deutz
- Wullenwever-Druck Heine KG, Lübeck
literature
- Göttrik Wewer: Social Democratic Economic Enterprises: a political science study of party-owned companies in the Federal Republic of Germany. (= Studies in Social Science. Volume 67). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-11874-9 .
- Concentration GmbH (Hrsg.): Concentration GmbH, community of interests of publishing and commercial enterprises. Directory of newspapers, printers, book and magazine publishers, bookstores and various companies. 6th edition. Bonn 1960. (Brochure, without page count)
- Andreas Feser: Wealth power and media influence: party-owned companies and equal opportunities for the parties. BoD, 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0347-2 .