Velhagen & Klasing

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Signet of the publisher around 1903
Cover of a book published in 1925 with the publisher's signet lower left

Velhagen & Klasing was a German book publisher based in Bielefeld and Leipzig .

history

In 1833 August Velhagen founded a publishing bookstore in Bielefeld. Two years later, his school friend August Klasing joined.

The main focus of the publisher was initially on theological specialist literature and popular religious fiction . In 1864 a branch was founded in Leipzig in which the family magazine “ Daheim ” appeared. The Geographische Anstalt Velhagen & Klasing was affiliated to this branch in 1873 . The publisher's focus was now on geographical works, atlases (including Putzger's historical world atlas ), illustrated monographs (“artist monographs”, “monographs on world history”, etc.), magazines , historical works and school books. Since 1886 the widespread illustrated "Velhagen & Klasings monthly books" appeared. Since 1882 the publishing house also owned the Stubenrauchsche Buchhandlung (with school book publisher) in Berlin . Ottilie Wildermuth and Henriette Davidis were among the successful authors of the 19th century who published with Velhagen & Klasing (for example in the magazine Daheim ) .

In the time of National Socialism, the publisher remained true to the line and published z. B. the leading anti-Semitic propagandist Johann von Leers .

The publishing house was taken over by Cornelsen Verlag in 1954 . The parts of the company located in the GDR came to VEB Tourist Verlag .

August Klasing's son Johannes Klasing founded Delius Klasing Verlag in 1911 , which was formally independent.

literature

  • Axel Frey: From the Leipzig book trade and publishing history. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 43rd year 1997, issue 1, pp. 34–39.
  • Horst Meyer: Velhagen & Klasing. One hundred and fifty years. 1835-1985 . Cornelsen-Velhagen and Klasing, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-464-00002-8 .
  • Martin Tabaczek: Cultural Commercialization. Studies on the history of the Velhagen & Klasing publishing house 1835–1870 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-51093-4 . (also dissertation, University of Essen, 2001.)
  • Martin Tabaczek: Religious literature and its commercialization between Vormärz and the establishment of an empire. The example of the Velhagen & Klasing publishing house . In: Archive for the history of the book industry , 65th year 2010, pp. 213–227.
  • Karl Friedrich Pfau :  Velhagen and Klasing . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 638-641.

Web links

Commons : Velhagen & Klasing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann von Leers, Konrad Frenzel (ed.): Atlas zur Deutschen Geschichte
    von     1914 bis 1933. 1934. A quote from Adolf Hitler and a note: "The NSDAP raised no concerns about the publication of this publication." This corresponds to the content of the book and the vocabulary, e.g. B. "Shame Peace". In the appendix, the publisher advertises further Nazi literature.

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