Mohr-ZG

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Mohr-ZG was an Austrian  bookstore and delivery company that was founded in 1889 and which merged with delivery company Morawa in 1992 .

Moor

In 1889 Robert Mohr founded the publishing and commission bookstore Robert Mohr and took over the representation and distribution of the Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig , which published Meyers Konversations-Lexikon and the Duden . His father was the chemist Philipp Mohr, a lecturer at Heidelberg University . He himself learned the trade of bookseller in Mainz and was employed by Gerold & Co. and Manz in Vienna from 1878 . He also quickly took over the delivery of well-known German magazines in the Danube Monarchy - including popular papers such as Die Gartenlaube , Meggendorfer-Blätter , the illustrated boys' newspaper Der Gute Kamerad , Westermannsmonthshefte , Die Woche and the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung .

However, the core area of ​​the company was book sales. In 1897 Mohr took over the representation of Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , in 1905 the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and in 1910 the Langenscheidtschen publishing bookstore in Berlin. Over the years, other respected publishing houses were added to the range, including Atlantis Verlag (Zurich) and Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Stuttgart), later also Julius Groos Verlag (Heidelberg), Klett, Schreiber, Stalling AG and finally Suhrkamp .

Robert Mohr Sr. managed the company until his death in 1934. His son Robert-Arndt Mohr joined his father's company as a partner in 1918 and became sole owner after his father's death.

The seat of the bookstore was at Singerstrasse 12.

Central company

The Central Society for Book Trade and Graphic Companies (ZG) was founded in 1921, was close to the Greater German People's Party and acted as a holding company for several prestigious bookstores in Vienna. The ZG took over the distribution of the FA Brockhaus publishing house , thus the Brockhaus encyclopedia , the direct competition to Meyer's encyclopedias. The publishing houses CH Beck , Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Georg Thieme and Ferdinand Enke were also represented in Austria. In 1940 Robert-Arndt Mohr took over the company. In 1955 Mohr and the ZG were spatially combined. In the same year (Dr. Franz Hain, L. Heidrich and O. Höfels Danubia,) was shared with competitors a Community Catalog published.

Mohr-ZG

In September 1960 Robert-Arndt Mohr retired from the management and handed it over to Gottfried Berger , the owner of the J. Berger bookstore on Vienna's Kohlmarkt. Berger also became the sole owner of the two companies in the following year. Between 1969 and 1972, the building was rebuilt in several steps and the storage capacity more than doubled. A number of other publishers from Germany were won as customers, including the Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv for short, Munich), Beltz , Ulmer , Schattauer , UTB , and the Austrian publishing houses Kremayr & Scheriau , Buch & Welt and Neuer Kaiser . In 1975, then Minister of Education, Fred Sinowatz, visited the company. On November 25, 1976, the company was granted the right to use the Austrian coat of arms . The award was given by Minister of Commerce Josef Staribacher . In the late 1970s, the company switched to IT, and in 1980 new storage and office space were created.

In 1987, Gottfried Berger decided to move the company headquarters to the periphery of Vienna. In the following year, completely new facilities were built in the 23rd district . In 1992 the merger with the delivery division of Morawa took place . The new company Mohr Morawa was opened on February 27, 1992 with a ceremony. Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky spoke among others .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Burkheiser: To celebrate the publishing and bookstore Commission Robert Mohr. In: Anzeiger des Österreichische Buch-, Kunst- und Musikalienhandel , N. 5/99, p. 25f
  2. ^ In Memoriam Robert-Arndt Mohr. In: Anzeiger des Österreichische Buch-, Kunst- und Musikalienhandel , N. 24/96, December 15, 1961, p. 125
  3. ^ Murray G. Hall : Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte, 1918-1938 , B. 2, H. Böhlau, 1985, pp. 340 and 474f
  4. ^ Norbert Bachleitner, Franz M. Eybl, Ernst Fischer: History of the book trade in Austria , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2000, page 349
  5. ↑ Anzeiger des Österreichische Buch-, Kunst- und Musikalienhandel , N. 12, June 1975, p. 72 (with a photograph showing Berger, Sinowatz and the works council chairman Heinz Enz.)
  6. ^ Wiener Zeitung , December 1, 1976 (with a photograph of Gottfried Berger with the Minister of Commerce)
  7. ↑ Dr. Otto Mang: MOHR MORAWA officially opened. In: Anzeiger des Österreichische Buchhandels , March 1992, special supplement to number 6