Media group Dr. Haas

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Dr. Haas GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1884
Seat Mannheim , Germany
management Björn Jansen , Florian Kranefuß, Jost Bauer
Number of employees 636
sales EUR 99.81 million
Branch media
Website www.haas-medien.de
As of December 31, 2018

The media group Dr. Haas GmbH is a media holding company based in Mannheim .

history

Today's holding was created from a cross-shareholding of the owners of the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper and the owners of the large printing plant in which the newspaper is produced. Until the early 1950s, the two licensees Karl Ackermann and Eitel-Friedrich von Schilling were the owners of the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper - but they did not own the large printing plant. This belonged to the "Dr. Haas KG ”united the Bode, Bauser and Kolb families.

The merger of the two groups formed the “Mannheimer Morgen Großdruckerei und Verlag GmbH”, which came under the umbrella of the “Verlag Dr. Haas ”holding company. In 1979 the holding company was renamed a GmbH, later expanded to include further investments and renamed to its current name.

Shareholder

The holding is a family company, the largest family shareholder is Stamm Bode, the largest individual shareholder is BWK Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft based in Stuttgart. This has a 28.89% share, the Bode family 22.1%, the family around Rainer v. Schilling 14.35% and Karl Ackermann's grandson, Felix von Reiswitz, 10.6%. The rest is free float.

structure

The 19 companies combined in the holding employ over 700 people, 135 of whom are editors. The annual sales of the holding companies together amount to almost 100 million euros. The media group holds shares in the following companies, in whole or in part:

Newspapers

Radio

Editing and publishing service provider

  • Mannheimer Verlagsanstalt - it produces the periodical supplements Sonntag Aktuell (discontinued since April 2016) and Der Sonntag
  • Impulse - editorial service provider for inserts and special topics as well as the magazines Ubi Bene and Econo
  • pdk Press Service Kurpfalz

Marketer

  • Haasmedia

Advertising agencies

  • Xmedias
  • afd direct mail

Letter delivery service

  • Morning mail

Processed company

The VOD - Vereinigte Offsetdruckereien , founded in Mannheim-Neckarau in 1958 , supported by the SPD publishing organization concentration GmbH , belonged to the media group Dr. Haas, it was merged with the media group in 1986 and closed. Today the training center of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is located in the building at Heidelberg-Eppelheimer Handelsstrasse 13 .

The Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt , founded in 1946 and housed in the Mannheimer Morgen building in square R1 , was also closed. The SPD was also involved in the SWV through Concentration GmbH. The publishing house - a product was the monthly magazine Mannheim Illustriert , which was enclosed with regional daily newspapers - was merged with the Haas-Holding in 1999.

literature

  • Udo Leuschner : newspaper history. Verlag Die Arbeitswelt, Berlin 1981.
  • Andreas Feser: Wealth power and media influence: party-owned companies and equal opportunities for the parties. BoD - Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0347-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Annual report 2014, shareholders
  3. ↑ https://digitalezeitung.morgenweb.de/ePaper/archive/downloadPdf.php?date=20160930&code=mm-mitte&page=0&r=1
  4. ↑ Merger Agreement of June 9, 1986.
  5. ^ Andreas Feser: Wealth Power and Media Influence. P. 189f.