Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '15.2 " N , 16 ° 22' 28.8" E
| Manz'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1849 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Susanne Stein-Pressl (Group CEO), Peter Guggenberger (CEO) Heinz Korntner (Head of Publishing, Authorized Signatory), Markus Hajszan-Meister (Head of Finances, Authorized Signatory), Christoph Mack (CTO) |
| Number of employees | about 170 |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.manz.at |
The Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore GmbH is a 1849 founded specialist publisher of legal, tax and business, based in Vienna . The limited liability company is 100% owned by Manz GmbH. The company is located at Kohlmarkt 16 in the 1st district of Innere Stadt , the publishing office at Johannesgasse 23.
history
1849-1945
Friedrich Manz founded the Manz'sche kk Hof publishing and university bookstore in Vienna in 1849, one year after the revolution in 1848 . After his death in 1866, his Regensburg brother Georg Joseph Manz continued to run the publishing house and bookstore, in 1870 they went to Friedrich's son Hermann, who sold them to the Leipzig printing and publishing house Julius Klinkhardt in 1883 . The new owners were Julius Klinkhardt and Klinkhardt authorized signatory Markus Stein (1845–1935).
The Manz publishing history begins with the latter. Among other things, Stein published language teaching and legal editions. In 1882 there was already a twenty-volume pocket edition of the Austrian laws. In 1902/03 an own printing company was added. From 1910 Markus Stein and his son Richard (1871–1932) were sole owners . Carl Junker , the chronicler of the Austrian book trade, wrote in 1900: Manz's collection of Austrian laws is perhaps the only one in the world. The handy black volumes are the constant companions of all lawyers and administrative officials and have superseded the official legal editions almost everywhere.
In 1912, on the basis of an order received from Markus and Richard Stein in 1909 , the famous architect and architecture critic Adolf Loos designed the portal of the bookstore at Kohlmarkt 16 and the manager's rooms on the upper floor. The construction based on the findings of psychoanalysis - an entrance set back and the indirect lighting from above - should exert a pull on the unconscious of passers-by. For the portal, pseudo-materials (Loos: nailed-on cement cast ) were not used, as was often the case at the time , but white-veined black marble, gold-plated letters and display paneling in mahogany. Markus Stein had the representative house at Kohlmarkt 20 (now 16) built in 1892/93.
The art-loving family commissioned Oskar Kokoschka with the portrait of children playing (1909, today Lehmbruck-Museum , Duisburg) - it shows Richard Stein's children Lotte and Walter - and with a portrait of Richard Stein, which has been lost since the Second World War. She supported Arnold Schönberg , whose students included Richard's brother Erwin Stein .
Richard Stein succeeded (among other things by founding the Manz Collection and the Larousse Editions 1920) to save the company from the inflationary period .
The sisters and partner of the publisher Robert Stein (1899-1970), Walter Stein (1901-1979), Maria Charlotte Sweceny (1904-1956) and Edith Hilscher (1910-1985) were after the "Anschluss" in 1938 as "half-breeds" and could not continue the publishing house. The "Aryans" Ernst Gießauf, head of the Manz print shop, Berta Pohl, authorized signatory, and Anton Bernhard, bookseller, led the company through the Nazi era. For this purpose, Gießauf joined the NSDAP pro forma .
1945 – today
With Robert Stein (1899–1970), the third generation of the Stein family took over the helm in 1935. Together with his brother Walter Stein, who is primarily dedicated to printing, he tackled the rebuilding of the publishing house in 1946. In the same year, the Austrian Juristen-Zeitung (ÖJZ), which still exists today, appears for the first time .
In 1970 Franz Stein (1944–2005) took over the management after the death of his father Robert. Anton C. Hilscher, a cousin of Franz Stein, joins the management in 1973.
In 1982 the Manz'sche Buchdruckerei switched from metal typesetting to computer typesetting.
In 1983 Manz Verlag was a founding member of the European law publishers network Law Publishers in Europe (LPE).
In 1986 the RDB legal database, one of the first databases for legal information, is founded.
In 1994 the textbook area was spun off and in 1996 MANZ GmbH was founded as a holding company . Today it holds 60% of the shares in Manz'schen Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH. 40% has been held by the international publishing group Wolters Kluwer since 1997 as part of a strategic partnership .
In 2001 the publishing house moved to Johannesgasse 23 in Vienna together with RDB Rechtsdatenbank GmbH, Onlaw Internet Technologies GmbH and the Austrian publishing company C. & E. Dworak GmbH (ÖVG).
In 2004, Franz Stein acquired the majority of the company shares.
Franz Stein dies unexpectedly on November 7, 2005. With his children Susanne Stein and Andreas Stein, the fifth generation joins the company management.
On January 1, 2010, MANZ'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH, as the receiving company, took over its previous subsidiary RDB Rechtsdatenbank GmbH - until then its own company - as an online sales platform in its product portfolio. There the RDB remains as a brand . Onlaw Internet Technologies GmbH, the technology service provider of the MANZ Group, will operate as MANZ Solutions GmbH from January 1, 2010.
In 2012, Manz'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung took over the data web services from Telekom Austria and made them available to its customers as "info services" (including the commercial register, land register, trade register and central registration register).
This offer is expanded through the participation in ACP Business Solutions (2014) and the acquisition of IMD Informations-, Medien- und Datenververarbeitunggesellschaft mbH (2015).
In 2017 Manz'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung took a majority stake in SimpLEX Solutions GmbH, which, with "simpLEX Doks", offers a document generator for the legally secure creation of commercial register applications.
In November 2018, the previous owners, MANZ GmbH and Wolters Kluwer, transferred their shares in MANZ Schulbuch GmbH to P&V Holding retrospectively as of January 1, 2018.
On May 2, 2019, both companies announced that the owner families Stein and Fliri had bought back the shares of Wolters Kluwer with effect from January 1, 2019.
Companies in the Manz publishing group
- Manz'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH
- Manz Solutions GmbH
- ACP Business Solutions (participation)
- SAVD Videodolmetschen GmbH (participation)
- SimpLEX Solutions GmbH (participation)
Publications
Manz'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH publishes the most comprehensive range of specialist literature for legal and tax professions in Austria - in print and online.
Legal editions, commentaries and textbooks - in the field of jurisprudence , the publisher has an extensive range from all areas of law. The current publisher's catalog includes more than 1,800 titles, including 24 self-published magazines. The most important comments are also offered electronically to interested customers via the RDB sales platform in the online library.
"MANZ Sachbuch" is aimed at a broad reading public with public titles and legal advice.
Since 2015, Manz has been working with the Medical University of Vienna to publish the "Gesundheit.Wissen" series of advice, in which experts from the Medical University of Vienna provide information about important clinical pictures in a generally understandable way.
See also
- Publishing house and printing company GJ Manz in Munich and Dillingen an der Donau , until 1998; Similar names, risk of confusion
literature
- Thomas Brezinka : Erwin Stein. A musician in Vienna and London (= writings of the Arnold Schönberg Science Center . Volume 2). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77384-5 .
- Christopher Dietz: Lernet and his Lotte. The remarkable life of Lotte Sweceny from the Viennese publishing dynasty Stein. In: The Standard . (Album), Vienna 24./25. August 2013. ( full text online )
- Christopher Dietz, Burkhardt Rukschcio: 100 years of the Loos portal of the MANZ bookstore. Manz, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-214-07531-6 .
- Murray G. Hall: Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938. Volume I: History of the Austrian publishing industry. (= Literature and Life. NF Volume 28). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985, ISBN 3-412-05585-9 .
- Carl Junker: On the book system in Austria. Collected Writings 1896–1927. Edited by Murray G. Hall . Edition Praesens, Vienna 2001
- Catherine Mumelter: The history of the publishing house Manz. Dissertation. Innsbruck 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Junker: World Exhibition Paris 1900. Catalog of the Austrian department. Edited by the kk Österr. General Commissariats. Book 1, group I + III. Teaching - Tools of Art and Science. Vienna 1900, pp. 37–59 (republished in: Carl Junker: Zum Buchwesen in Österreich. Gesammelte Schriften 1896–1927. Ed. By Murray G. Hall. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2001, pp. 142–150).
- ↑ For the portal see also: Christopher Dietz / Burkhardt Rukschcio: 100 years Loos portal of the bookstore MANZ. Manz, Vienna 2012.
- ↑ Christopher Dietz: Absolutely nothing crazy. In: The Standard . Vienna, August 18, 2012, supplement album , p. A3.
- ↑ Details on the period from 1938–1945 in Catherine Mumelter: The history of the Manz publishing house. Dissertation . Innsbruck 2001, p. 160ff.
- ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20181205_OTS0015/pv-holding-uebernehmen-manz-schulbuch-verlag , accessed on May 2, 2019
- ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20190502_OTS0221/manz-kauf-teile-von-wolters-kluwer-zurueck-bild , accessed on May 2, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/wolters-kluwer-has-sold-40-stake-in-austrian-information-services-specialist-7443173 , accessed on May 6, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.manz.at/gesundheit-wissen