Publishing house and printing company GJ Manz
The publishing and printing company GJ Manz Aktiengesellschaft was a publishing and printing company that existed from 1925 to 1998. The company was initially based in Regensburg and later in Munich .
Emergence
In 1925, the publishing house previously GJ Manz, Buch- und Künsterei AG Munich-Regensburg , one of the most important Catholic publishers of the 19th century, which was founded by Georg Joseph Manz in Landshut in 1830 , bought the United Printing, Art and Publishing Companies AG Dillingen in Dillingen on the Danube . After the merger of the two companies in 1929, the publishing house was created. GJ Manz Book and Art Print AG based in Regensburg. Anton Betz was appointed to the board. From 1961 to 1974 he was chairman of the supervisory board.
At the centenary in 1930, the publishing house GJ Manz had operations in Munich , Regensburg , Dillingen an der Donau , Donauwörth , Wertingen and Nördlingen . She mainly published Roman Catholic literature. The Munich printing company was one of the largest commercial printing companies and one of the most efficient contract printing companies. Her customers included the church, book and magazine publishers, railways and post offices, cooperatives and associations.
National Socialism and the Post-War Period
During the National Socialist era , the company's headquarters were relocated from Regensburg to Munich in 1934. The Reichsschrifttumskammer prohibited all stock corporations from working as newspaper, magazine and book publishers. In 1938 the publishing house was closed, only the printing works continued. In contrast to the Munich and Donauwörther operations, the Dillingen operations were spared from war damage. In 1949 Robert Bauer, the managing director of the Dillingen company, was appointed to the management board of Manz AG. He remained in this function until 1972. The major shareholders of the AG were church organizations of the Archdiocese of Munich .
Newspaper printing
From September 25, 1948 until the end of 1949, the Dillinger Tagespost appeared as the district edition of the catholic daily newspaper Augsburger Tagespost , which was published by Johann Wilhelm Naumann . Typesetting and printing were done in the Dillingen factory. Your successor, the Donaupost , appeared in the newly founded publishing house Neue Augsburger Zeitung Haas & Naumann GmbH Augsburg . The local pages of the Danube Post were created in Dillingen, the printing took place in Augsburg. Its publication was discontinued after 14 months. As a successor to the Dillinger newspaper is the Danube newspaper , the local edition of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung since 1945 until today. The typesetting of their local section took place at Manz AG in Dillingen, the place of printing was Augsburg.
modernization
In 1952 the properties at Königstraße 45 and Hafenmarkt 14 in Dillingen were sold. A first new building at Grosse Allee 29 in Dillingen was completed in 1957. At the end of the 1960s, lead type and punched tape-controlled machines were used. In the bookbinding business , the focus was on making brochures . The first part of the production line was an adhesive binding system . In 1963 another production hall was built in Dillingen. The company name was changed to publishing and printing company GJ MANZ Aktiengesellschaft .
The first learning aids appeared in 1964. In 1965 Manz AG acquired the Erich Wewel Verlag Freiburg i. Br. And with it the magazine Der Prediger und Katechet and other theological publications that were produced in Dillingen. High-speed letterpress presses were used until 1967 and sheet- fed offset printing was introduced in the Dillingen company from 1968 . In the 1970s a production line for brochures was set up in the bookbindery, a separating and cutting line, a fully automatic bundling system and automatic packaging machines. The new office space for the editorial office of the Donau-Zeitung was set up above the entrance to the Dillingen company premises.
In 1972 the previous operations manager in Dillingen, Eduard Niedernhuber, was appointed to the management board of the publishing and printing company GJ Manz AG. From 1974 Manz AG presented itself as a specialist educational publisher with learning aids and school books. In 1979 the west building was demolished and rebuilt and a large production line for the bookbinding shop was installed. In 1980 computer-controlled photo typesetting was introduced.
closure
In 1998 the book production was stopped. From 2001, only the property in Dillingen was managed and the squeeze-out was carried out one year later . Manz Verlag was taken over by Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart . This will continue as a publishing house for learning aids. Manz Verlag has been based in Hollfeld since January 1, 2005 . It was incorporated into Klett Lern und Wissen GmbH in August 2005 and has been part of Klett Lerntraining GmbH since September 2008. Erich Wewel Verlag was sold by Klett to Sankt Ulrich Verlag in Augsburg in 2006.
literature
- Wilhelm Eggerer: Manz 1830–1980. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary . Munich / Dillingen on the Danube 1980.
- Annemarie Meiner: GJ Manz. Person and work 1830–1955. Munich / Dillingen 1957.