Morstadt publishing house
The Morstadt Publishing is a publishing house in Kehl .
history
In 1863 August Morstadt founded a newspaper and commercial printing company .
From 1863 to 1978 Morstadt was the publisher of the Kehler Zeitung , which was then transferred to the Reiff printing company in Offenburg (Verlag des Offenburger Tageblatts ). From its founding in 1863 to 1944, the newspaper was printed in-house. From 1944 to 1953 all business operations were inactive because the French occupying forces had forbidden the people of Kehler and the Kehler companies to return to their city. It was not until 1953, after France finally renounced a bridgehead on the right bank of the Rhine , that reconstruction could begin; the printing plant was largely destroyed. From then on, the Reiff newspaper press in Offenburg was used for printing until 1978 when the newspaper was sold to Reiff.
Karl Morstadt, principal after the First World War , could only avert the expropriation of the newspaper by the National Socialists by handing over management of the company to his son- in -law . The main reason for the National Socialist attacks may have been his commitment as a Freemason . Economic motives are also to be assumed, there are many cases of newspaper expropriations documented, in which it was apparently only a matter of stealing good business.
After the Second World War , Morstadt, under the direction of Otto Foshag, systematically built on print jobs from the Council of Europe in Strasbourg , which kept the print shop busy until the end of printing activities. In addition, Morstadt was the publisher of the local telephone directory .
Like many medium-sized printing companies, Morstadt published books right from the start. In the 1970s, Dr. Fritz Foshag took out this book publisher , reinforced after the Kehler Zeitung was handed over to Reiff. The publishing house specialized in Alsatica at a time when interest in the special history of Alsace increased to the left and right of the Rhine and led to a lively intellectual exchange across the border.
Very early on, Jean Egens Linden von Lautenbach was a great success that continues to this day. Another important author is Raymond Matzen .
Since the mid-1980s, the publishing program has been supplemented by travel guides .
Michael Foshag took over the publishing house in 2000. Since then, the publisher has also looked after and published the Allgemeine deutsche Kommersbuch . Thus, after the end of the long-established Moritz Schauenburg house in Lahr , Morstadt was able to maintain an almost 150-year-old tradition . The Kommersbuch and related articles ( Studentica ) are an independent area of the publishing house.
The ties to France and Alsace were deepened through a cooperation with the large French publisher "Editions Ouest-France ", whose travel guide Morstadt now includes in the program for Germany.
Business areas
Today the publisher works in three business areas:
- Alsatica / fiction / travel guides
- General German Kommersbuch
- local telephone directory Kehl and surroundings