Schroedel Publishing House

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The Schroedel Verlag was a German educational publisher . Since 2003, Schroedel has been part of the Westermann Group as Imprint .

history

A forerunner of the Schroedel Verlag was the Kümmelsche assortment and publishing bookshop in Halle (Saale), founded in 1792 . In 1839 the owner Carl A. Kümmel divided his company into a publishing house and a bookstore , which he sold to his long-time employee Wilhelm Georg Knapp. In 1846, Kümmel also sold the publishing house to Knapp. After Knapp's death, his widow sold the business in 1850 to long-time employees Friedrich Ludwig (known as Louis) Schroedel and Ludwig Simon. The publishing house operated temporarily under the name Schroedel & Simon, from 1885 finally under the name Schroedel.

In the 1930s Joachim von Schroedel-Siemau (1901–1963) took over the publishing house from his father Hermann Ludwig (called Louis) von Schroedel-Siemau, from 1943 he was the sole owner. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the publishing house was relocated from Halle to Wolfenbüttel and in 1949 to Hanover .

In 1961 Hermann von Schroedel-Siemau joined the family's publishing house and in 1963 became its managing partner . Under his leadership, the company developed into one of the largest German textbook publishers with a special focus on German, mathematics and natural sciences. With an annual turnover of around DM 180 million , the publishing house operating under the name Hermann Schroedel KG from 1950 to 1981 was for a time - after the scientific Springer Verlag - the largest publisher in Germany.

From 1950 to 1981 the publishing house operated as Hermann Schroedel Verlag KG. From 1981 the publishing house belonged to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group , was converted into a limited liability company (GmbH) in 1982 and initially operated as Schroedel Schulbuchverlag GmbH, later as Schroedel Verlag GmbH.

In 2003 the Holtzbrinck Group sold its school book holding company “Das Bildungshaus”, into which the Schroedel Verlag had been incorporated, to the Westermann Group. The Schroedel Verlag merged there with the Westermann Schulbuchverlag, the Schöningh Verlag and the Winklers Verlag . The publisher's name and its brands are used as an imprint within the Westermann Group based in Braunschweig .

Individual evidence

  1. Kümmel, Carl August (1769-1846). In: CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ CA Kümmel's range bookstore GC Knapp, Halle, Saale (1838–1848). In: CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  3. Schroedel-Siemau, Joachim von. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen , 2002, p. 323 , accessed on July 27, 2017 .
  4. ^ History , Westermann Group. Retrieved May 19, 2020
  5. Silke Leuckfeld: Concentration of power in the school bag. In: M People - Doing - Media. ver.di - United Service Union, Federal Executive Board, June 1, 2003, accessed on July 27, 2017 .