Tyrolia Publishing House

Publishing house Tyrolia Gesellschaft mb H
legal form	GmbH
founding	1907 in its current form
Seat	Innsbruck , Austria
management	Christoph Schiemer
Number of employees	420 (before 1945); 200 (2015)
Branch	Book trade, publishing house
Website	www.tyrolia.at

Publishing house in Innsbruck

The publishing house Tyrolia Gesellschaft mb H. is an Austrian publisher and also a chain of bookstores.

history

The origin of the publishing house Tyrolia lies in South Tyrol . The company began in 1888 as the Brixener Chronik , a newspaper that was founded by the Catholic-Political Press Association in Brixen under priest Aemilian Schöpfer . Nineteen years later, Tyrolia was founded in its current form. It also had branches in Munich and Vienna. With the separation of Tyrol after the First World War , the publishing house had to be divided and from 1936 it was run as Athesia in South Tyrol .

In the inter-war period, Tyrolia-Buchverlag was profiled as a specialist publisher for theology, as a regional and school book publisher and new book and paper stores were founded in all Tyrolean districts. In 1934, the National Socialists destroyed the Innsbruck printing works with which the Tyrolia newspapers were to be switched off by an bomb attack . In 1938 the SA banned the production of all Tyrolia newspapers and restricted Tyrolia's book production. After the end of the war, it was rebuilt with partial reparation for the damage inflicted by the National Socialists. The weekly newspaper The Volksbote which in 1973 represented was renamed, was published in 1946 in Austria. But the daily newspaper could no longer be published.

In 1968 the printing and publishing house was built in Innsbrucker Exlgasse and the branch network was expanded with numerous new book and paper shops. In addition, Athesia-Tyrolia-Druck Ges.mbH was founded in 1992 , which today is 100% owned by Athesia Druck srl in South Tyrol, restored the old connections and expanded the publishing program to include mountain books and regional books for Vorarlberg.

In 2007 they celebrated a 100 year anniversary. A well-known “son” of the Tyrolia Group is the Tyrolean Governor Günther Platter , who has been in office since 2008 and who had learned to be a printer in Landeck. In 2014, Tyrolia took over the children's and young people's book program from Wiener Domverlag and has been managing this program segment from an office in Vienna ever since.

Today, the company's shares are widely dispersed, the larger shareholders are the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wilten (4.67%), the Athesia publishing house (Bozen, 3.74%), some other church organizations, the rest is private free float.

Corporate structure

Divisions and Management

The publishing house has three different business areas:

Tyrolia book and paper trade
Tyrolia Publishing House
Tyrolia paper wholesale

The management (the board) consists of the chairman of the board, Christoph Schiemer, and the board of directors for the publishing house Gottfried Kompatscher.

Branches

Most of the branches are located in Tyrol. However, outside of this state, which is the focus of the company, there are various locations in other Austrian countries. Branches in Munich have been given up, the aim is to concentrate on the domestic market.

Branch on Vienna 's Stephansplatz

Innsbruck ( Maria-Theresien-Strasse )
Innsbruck (DEC)
Bludenz
Ehrwald
Fulpmes
Telfs
Imst

Publishing group engagement

Tyrolia is a founding member of the engagement publishing group, to which ten medium-sized publishers for religion and theology joined forces in 1970. The aim is to strengthen a modern religious book program shaped by the council, the exchange of views among each other and joint publishing and advertising activities.

literature

Anton Dörrer : The publishing houses Tyrolia and Athesia in Bozen 1888-1950 . In: Yearbook of the Gutenberg Society 1950, pp. 274–279.
Hanns Humer (editor): Tyrolia - Athesia. 100 years of experience, suffering, and shaping. A Tyrolean publishing house in the service of the word. Publishing house Tyrolia Innsbruck, Publishing house Athesia Bozen, Innsbruck 1989, ISBN 3-7022-1731-2 .
Moritz Windegger (Red.): 100 years of Tyrolia-Athesia: 1907–2007, a Tyrolean publishing house. History and future , Bolzano 2007.