Limpert publishing house

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Limpert publishing house
legal form GmbH
founding 1921
Seat Wiebelsheim
management Gerhard Stahl, managing director
Branch publishing company
Website Website

General view of the Wilhelm Limpert publishing house - Wilhelm Limpert Verlag Dresden-A.1, Marienstr. 16 (advertising brochure 1928)

The Limpert Verlag is the oldest German sports publisher . It was founded in 1921 by the publisher and active gymnast Wilhelm Limpert in Dresden , as Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, where it was based at Marienstraße 16 .

history

Since its foundation, the publishing program has mainly consisted of literature on the training of sports and sports picture books, but tourism, political and cultural topics were also covered, for example about Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and Otto Gussmann . Limpert Verlag also published anniversary publications from Saxon companies and produced advertising prints for Saxon tourism.

From 1932 to 1945 the Wilhelm Limpert publishing house in Berlin- Kreuzberg, Ritterstraße 75, had a publishing branch with a printing company under the name "Druckerei-Verlag Limpert" and adapted itself to the political convictions of the National Socialist rulers. The publisher published literature about the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and about gymnastics father Jahn . From April 1, 1938 Limpert published the quarterly Olympic Rundschau . She was the official magazine of the company founded in Nazi Germany, with the approval of the IOC International Olympic Institute and was the successor of the Olympic Review ( Olympic Review , Revue Olympique ) of Pierre de Coubertin .

In 1939 the publisher tried its hand at the field of Nazi work sociology on behalf of the DAF by bringing out a work that propagated Nazi racial hygiene in working life.

The publishing house had two office and print shop buildings in Dresden.

Shortly before the end of the war in February 1945, both the publishing headquarters in Dresden and the branch in Berlin were bombed out and paper supplies and books in stock were completely destroyed, the publishing house was rebuilt in Frankfurt am Main in 1950 . In 1959 the founder of the publishing house Wilhelm Limpert died and in 1962 the Wilhelm Limpert publishing house went bankrupt. The Mainz publisher Diemer Limpert bought the warehouse from the bankruptcy estate and continued the company under the name Limpert-Verlag in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . In 1965 Limpert-Verlag sold 700,000 books and made a profit of 1.5 million DM. The publishing program comprised 90 titles, including 15 entertainment sports books such as athletes' biographies about Pelé and Heidi Biebl . In 1988 the two Wiesbaden publishers, Gerhard Stahl and Günther Fertig, took over the publishing house, so that the publishing house was changed to Wiesbaden. Gerhard Stahl has been the sole publisher since 1992. Limpert Verlag has been based in Wiebelsheim in the Hunsrück region since 1999 . He, together with the Aula-Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and the source & Meyer mbH & Co. , a publishing community.

The publishing program includes the publication of methodical specialist literature for training and competition . In addition, Limpert Verlag publishes illustrated books and fiction on sports, e.g. B. the yearbooks of gymnastics .

Limpertverlag also publishes the specialist magazines Das Rudermagazin , SportPraxis and The Exercise Leader - working aids for exercise leaders .

literature

  • Rolf Geßmann, 'Every gymnastics and sports book only from Limpert'. On the history of the Limpert publishing house 1921–1945 . epubli, 2020. 96 pages. ISBN 978-3-7529-6584-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Books of Exercise. Wilhelm Limpert Dresden-A.1. 17th edition 1928. 80 pages
  2. ↑ Advertising graphics by Kurt Fiedler for Wilhelm Limpert and the Saxon tourism industry. (PDF (349 kB)) Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ Literature by and about Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Dresden and Berlin (1921–1945) in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Database of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
  5. ↑ Online
  6. ↑ Online
  7. ↑ Hermann Textor: Völkisch work suitability and economic structure. Ed .: Research Institute for Work Design, for Aging and Consumption Frankfurt. Director of the Inst .: Ludolph Brauer . Publisher W. Limpert, Berlin 1939. Real seat of the institute: Wiesbaden, incorrect information at DNB
  8. ↑ Literature by and about Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Frankfurt (1950–1962) in the catalog of the German National Library
  9. ↑ “Publisher: Empty and Hollow” , Der Spiegel, 53/1965, December 29, 1965.
  10. ↑ Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels, 1987, p. 63 online
  11. ↑ fachzeitungen.de, Limpert Verlag