Voggenreiter Publishing House
| Voggenreiter Verlag GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1919 |
| Seat | Wachtberg , Germany |
| management | Ralph and Charles Voggenreiter |
| Number of employees | 15th |
| Branch | Music publisher |
| Website | www.voggenreiter.de |
The Voggenreiter Verlag is an established in 1919 German music publisher based in Bonn . From 1919 to 1933 it was the most important publisher for the German scout movement and the Bündische Jugend alongside the Günther Wolff publishing house .
history
At the beginning of 1919, the Bavarian scout leaders Franz Ludwig Habbel and Ludwig Voggenreiter founded the publishing house “Der Weiße Ritter” in Regensburg . Their goal was to achieve an internal renewal of the German Scout Association (DPB), which was heavily encrusted by paramilitary structures . For this reason, the Bavarian scouts invited to the "German Scouts Day" in August 1919 at Prunn Castle in the Altmühltal . One of the spokesmen at the time was Habbel. With the Führer newspaper Der Weiße Ritter they wanted to create an open forum that wanted to serve "the youth movement in the spirit of internalized scouting" .
After 1921 the publishing house moved to Potsdam and after 1927 operated under the name Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag . Various scouting, youth movement and later also Bundische books and magazines appeared in it.
The program was originally geared towards the scouting movement. This program area was retained until the boy scout movement was banned in Germany in 1933/34. In addition to working aids for scout guides, scout novels , song books and ideas for group lessons and camps, such as the German camp manual and the German game manual, it appeared. In addition, various literary titles from other subject areas were published. Towards the end of the 1920s, the publishing house also increasingly attracted authors influenced by the Bund. Among other things, the book series Books of the Forest Affinity, which was opened at an early stage, deserves special mention . It had a lasting influence on the development of the German scout movement and the youth of the Bund. In addition to training manuals , some of which came from the international scouting movement, it published several titles by John Hargrave , an English author and youth leader who founded the Woodcraft movement and Kibbo Kift .
- Boy scout literature from the 1920s
Franz Ludwig Habbel: The world scout movement (1921). In this issue Habbel presented the world scout movement.
Title of the White Knight's Almanac, 1924
The leader. Boy Scout Guide. Forest Affinity Books, 1929. Training manual by Sándor Sík, one of the founders of the Hungarian scout movement.
Back of the boy scout novel Gärende Seelen by Julius von Farkas (2nd edition 1929). Hungarian boy scout literature had a lasting influence on German scout thinking in the 1920s.
After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933, the publishing program changed greatly. The boy scouts and allies, an important target group for financial survival, could no longer be served. In addition to song books for the Hitler Youth , there were numerous military titles. Including Erwin Rommel's infantry attack and Hans Baumann's morning we march. Songbook of the German soldiers . Colonial literature and literary titles influenced by the Nazis also appeared . At the beginning of 1937 the Reich Security Main Office confirmed in its "Leitheft Verlagwesen" that the Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag - unlike the Günther Wolff publishing house - had fully subscribed to National Socialism. The Potsdam publishing house was dissolved in 1945. Ludwig Voggenreiter died in the Soviet Buchenwald internment camp in 1947 .
Ludwig Voggenreiter's brother Heinrich brought the remaining rights of use to the Voggenreiter Verlag, which was newly founded in Bad Godesberg . The program was based again strongly to the publications before 1933, next to the Konrad Schilling and Helmut König published in eleven stapling Liedersammlung The tower and the already in the Third Reich very successful The milestone appeared under a different title, dedicated to the history of the youth movement apart translated .
The songbooks with the songs of Reinhard Meys were among the most successful publications of the 1960s .
In 1972 Heinrich's son Ernst Voggenreiter took over the management and the publishing house developed into a pure music publisher. In 1975 Peter Bursch 's guitar book was added to the program. Many titles from this period are still in the range today.
When Ernst Voggenreiter was killed in a plane crash on December 17, 1992, his sons Ralph and Charles took over the management.
In May 2017 the publishing house moved from Bonn to nearby Wachtberg .
Publishing program
The range includes specialist music literature, textbooks for various instruments and song books in print as well as in electronic form. It is supplemented by musical instruments for beginners.
"Voggy's Kinderwelt" is aimed at children of preschool and elementary school age with books and instrument sets. They include an instrument and a school. Many sets also contain a play along CD. Instruments such as the recorder, harmonica, glockenspiel and other percussion instruments are available.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b voggenreiter.de: Imprint
- ↑ “The White Knight. A guide newspaper second year. ” Issue 3/1919 (Christmas issue). Cover page 2.
- ^ Reichsführer of the SS, Leitheft publishing house . Berlin 1937.
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: The plane crash in Stellingen
- ↑ scouting.de: Voggenreiter-Verlag leaves Bonn
