Klett-Perthes publishing house
| Klett-Perthes Verlag (2003–2008 / 2016) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH / branch |
| founding | 1785 |
| resolution | 2008 / 2016 |
| Seat | Gotha , Germany |
| Branch | publishing company |
Justus Perthes Verlag is a short name for publishers in Gotha and Darmstadt that no longer exist today.
history
The publishing house founded by Justus Perthes
Johann Georg Justus Perthes founded Justus Perthes 'publishing bookstore in Gotha in September 1785 - later Justus Perthes' Geographical (publishing) establishment Gotha . This was expropriated in January 1953 by the city council of Gotha ( GDR ) without compensation .
Then in April 1953 Joachim Justus Perthes and his son Wolf-Jürgen Perthes founded the Justus Perthes Geographische Verlagsanstalt Darmstadt in Darmstadt as the legal successor to the expropriated Gotha parent company.
The parent company Justus Perthes Gotha was forcibly nationalized and continued as a state-owned company (VEB Justus Perthes Gotha). It was renamed VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha in October 1955 .
After the reunification of Germany and reprivatisation , Gothaer Verlag was taken over by Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag in April 1992, together with the actual legal successor Justus Perthes Geographische Verlagsanstalt Darmstadt . The publishing house was renamed Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha GmbH and was merged with Justus Perthes Geographische Verlagsanstalt Darmstadt in Gotha in 1994 .
In 2003 the name of the now 100 percent Gothaer Klett subsidiary was changed to Klett-Perthes Verlag GmbH .
In 2008, Klett-Perthes Verlag GmbH in Gotha renamed Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH, Gotha branch, Klett-Perthes program area . After almost 223 years, the publisher with the name or part of the name Justus Perthes at the Gotha location , which had always been legally independent until then - until then one of the oldest publishers in Germany.
On March 31, 2016, Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH, Gotha branch, was closed and relocated to Ernst Klett Verlag, Leipzig branch . With this, the last publishing activities of the former house of Justus Perthes also expired, after more than 230 years in Gotha and 24 years after the takeover by the then Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart.
present
In 2010, at the corner of Justus-Perthes- and Friedrichstrasse, an approximately 2.50 m high column by the Aachen artist Ulf Hegewald was erected, which is crowned by a globe. The names of some well-known geographers and cartographers who worked for the Justus Perthes Gotha publishing house are engraved on the round body.
The former publishing complex at Justus-Perthes-Straße 3–9 in Gotha was converted from 2012 to 2014 into the “Perthes Forum”. It serves as a new central depot and archive building for the extensive holdings of the Friedenstein Castle Foundation , the Thuringian State Archives Gotha and the Gotha Research Library (including the Perthes Gotha Collection ). The construction measures (around 11,000 m², € 18.2 million construction costs) were funded by the EU's ERDF fund, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Thuringia and the city of Gotha.
Perthes Forum, detail
ditto, detail
The Friedrich Perthes publishing house in Hamburg
Friedrich Christoph Perthes , nephew of Justus Perthes, founded the Friedrich Perthes publishing house in Hamburg in 1822 , which was later based in Gotha. This was merged in 1843 with a publishing house founded by his son Andreas Hansa Traugott Perthes in Gotha in 1840 and renamed Friedrich & Andreas Perthes . In 1854 the company was renamed to Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes and in 1903 to Friedrich Andreas Perthes AG. In 1937 the publisher was dissolved.
literature
- Gottfried Suchy: 200 years of geographic and cartographic work in Gotha . In: Gothaer Museumsheft 11 (1985), pp. 2-11 ( full text ). A text with strong political tones in sections, which is to be understood from the time (GDR dictatorship). Historically wrong in some parts.
