Ludwig publishing house

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Seat   Munich , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Publishing group   Random House
Website   randomhouse.de

The Ludwig Verlag is a German publishing house with seat in Munich . It was founded by Wilhelm Ludwig in Pfaffenhofen and has been part of the Random House publishing group since 2004 .

history

The publisher is named after Wilhelm Ludwig. After the Second World War , Ludwig initially worked as a journalist for various media, including a forerunner of the German Press Agency . In 1949 he moved with his family to Pfaffenhofen in Upper Bavaria to work as a publisher . His mother-in-law had received permission to publish a daily newspaper . Ludwig took over the management of the " Ilmgau-Boten " and later brought out the " Ilmgau-Kurier ". Over the decades, a printer and a book publisher also joined the company. W. Ludwig Verlag initially specialized in Bavarica literature , i.e. books with a Bavarian reference. The program was later expanded to include political literature and fiction .

For reasons of age, Wilhelm Ludwig sold W. Ludwig Verlag to Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , based in Munich. In 2001 it was officially deleted from the commercial register, but continued unchanged as an imprint . When Bertelsmann took over the book publishers of the Axel Springer Group in 2004, Ludwig Verlag finally came under the umbrella of Random House. Today he is an independent part of the publishing group.

program

Ludwig Verlag publishes “books with attitude” on topics from politics and society, ecology and environmental protection as well as other areas. Reinhold Messner , Maria von Welser and Peter Wohlleben are among his most famous authors .

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Wilhelm Ludwig 90 years. In: Donaukurier. March 16, 2008, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Ludwig dies at the age of 94. In: Donaukurier. December 12, 2012, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Christian Guentlisberger: The institutionalization of Nazi terror 1933/34 . The fate of Fritz Gerlich and Georg Bell. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 10, 1993.
  5. ↑ Bernd Zachow: dream dancers in the province. Wolfgang Johannes Bekh's novel "The Secret Middle Kingdom". A champion for Thurn and Taxis. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . 17th August 1993.
  6. ^ Verlag Wilhelm Ludwig. In: Business Register. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, accessed on January 18, 2020 (Munich District Court, HRA 57244).
  7. ↑ Burkhard Riering: Bertelsmann Springer buys book group. In: world. February 12, 2003, accessed May 31, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Green light for Heyne takeover. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 25, 2003, accessed May 31, 2014 .
  9. ↑ New publications. Random House Publishing Group, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Authors. Random House Publishing Group, accessed February 18, 2020 .

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