Pestalozzi Publishing House

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The Pestalozzi publishing house in Fürth goes back to the Löwensohn picture book factory.

history

The picture book factory was founded on October 1, 1856 by Gerson Löwensohn (1817–1871) in Fürth. From 1882 to 1937 he mainly produced picture sheets, coloring books and picture books. After taking over the business, his sons expanded the publishing house further; In 1894 the publishing program included over 700 titles in up to ten languages.

During the period of National Socialism , the Jewish owners were forced to stop their publishing and bookselling activities. They sold the company to Kunstanstalten May AG (KAMAG) in Dresden in 1937 . The company was converted into a GmbH and now appeared under the name Pestalozzi-Verlag.

In the 1950s and 1960s he developed into one of the leading children's book publishers and was the market leader in the field of cardboard picture books. In January 1972 production was relocated to Erlangen . After the relocation, the company took over the Scholz-Mainz-Verlag (1972), the Boje-Verlag in Stuttgart (1983) and the children's book division of Mulder BV (1988). After a slump in sales, the Danish Egmont media holding acquired Pestalozzi Verlag in 1998 and ran it as Egmont-P for a year . further. From 1999 it belonged to the Egmont- Franz-Schneider-Verlag in Munich, which is now merged with VEMAG Verlags- und Medien AG, Cologne.

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