Saar publishing house

The Saar-Verlag was founded by Matthias Lackas and Johannes Hoffmann . The French zone licensed the publishing house on February 21, 1946, but it was not officially founded until April 21, 1947. Lackas took up the position of managing director and shared this position with a second managing director, Dr. Vogt. The publishing house of the Börsenverein Johannes Flicek is the representative of the managing director . Heinz Dieckmann was made a publisher's editor.

The Saar-Verlag program initially bore the signature of Hans Banger. Doré Ogrizek, the owner of Odé-Verlag in Paris, had worked with the head office of the front bookstores during the war , and through this had come into contact with their manager, Banger. The France volume that resulted from this cooperation was published by Saar-Verlag in the "Die Bunte Welt" series, along with other volumes on countries around the world. Arthur-Heinz Lehmann, who was published by the publishing house of the headquarters of the front bookstores in Brussels during the war, appeared again in the Saar publishing house.

With Alfred Mungenast , Heinz Dieckmann, Johannes Kirschweng , Carl Conrath and Gustav Regulator , the company also gained a specifically Saarland perspective.

Lackas and Banger left the company early. Banger got into the Schiller bookstore in Marbach. Lackas was forced to leave the company in 1949 as a result of the chaotic financial practices that flourished under him.

The Saar-Verlag was transferred to the West-Ost-Verlag, which in turn became part of Universitas Buchverlag, Saarbrücken in 1960.

literature

• Hans-Eugen Bühler / Olaf Simons, The brilliant business of Matthias Lackas. Corruption investigations in the publishing world of the Third Reich (Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 2004), ISBN 3-00-013343-7 .