Winklers publishing house
| Winklers publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | OHG ; KG |
| founding | (1902) January 1, 1925 |
| resolution | July 26, 1999 |
| Reason for dissolution | Liquidation after sale to Westermann Group |
| Seat | Darmstadt |
| Branch | publishing company |
Winklers Verlag Gebr. Grimm was a specialist publisher for shorthand and typewriting as well as for vocational training founded in 1902 , which was incorporated into the Westermann Verlag Group in Braunschweig in 1998 .
history
Before 1945
Winkler's publishing house goes back to the 1902 in Darmstadt founded self-publishing house of the chamber stenographer Michael Winkler (1878-1965), who founded the Stenographic Society and later the Stenographic Institute in 1898 in order to make his teaching work in Gabelsberger's stenography accessible to a broad public. He promoted the establishment of several associations and the introduction of shorthand in schools. During the First World War, the German Stenographers Association temporarily took over sales. After 1918 Winkler renamed his institute to Stenografie-Verlag , which in 1923 was taken over by the stationery dealers August Josef and Heinrich Grimm. In 1925 it was renamed to Winklers Verlag Gebr. Grimm OHG . August Grimm was an enthusiastic stenographer even as a schoolboy and took part in writing letters. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he started his own tobacco business at the age of 19 after the First World War , which he expanded in 1921 to include a bookstore, a stationery shop and a mail order department for shorthand literature.
The Brothers Grimm expanded the publishing house step by step with the publication of teaching and learning materials for shorthand, bookkeeping and business administration, and in 1927 they set up their own book printing and bookbinding operations, and in 1931 they added an offset department . In 1930 Winklers Verlag had become the most important German shorthand publisher with 38 shorthand textbooks and exercise books, 84 individual titles in the shorthand reading library, three shorthand newspapers and four handbooks. The textbooks Bookkeeping Made Easy and Business Administration reached their 130th and 200th edition respectively. During the Nazi era, the company was recognized as a National Socialist model company and in 1940 was awarded the gold flag of the German Labor Front and the badge of achievement for exemplary promotion of “ Kraft durch Freude ” ( Kraft through Joy ). In 1944 the publishing house on Bismarckstrasse was completely destroyed by an air raid.
After 1945
On October 1, 1945, operations were resumed in the partially repaired building on Bismarckstrasse. However, it was only after the compulsory license was lifted in 1949 that the publisher was able to resume printing operations and also bring Winklers books to the market via mail order. In the following years the company developed with hundreds of titles in the subjects of economics, organizational theory, data processing, politics, English, economic geography etc. T. in the millions were issued, to one of the most important specialist publishers for commercial and industrial vocational training. In 1966, August's sons Heinrich and Walter joined the company, which had been converted into a limited partnership , and in 1973 Hans Rüdiger Grimm, the son of the late Heinrich Grimm junior, joined the company. The range has now been expanded to include word processing and teaching media. In 1977 the publishing program included 850 titles by 263 authors. Senior boss August Grimm, who received the Federal Cross of Merit for his services, only withdrew from the business that his son Heinz Grimm (1939–2001) was now running. After reunification, Winklers Verlag rose to become the largest commercial school book publisher with over 1000 titles and more than 500 authors.
Well-known authors are for example
- Hartwig Heinemeier
- Manfred Deitermann
- Jürgen Hermsen
- Heinrich Heun
- Hans Jecht
- Ludwig Kruse
- Peter Limpke
- Siegfried Schmolke
- Peter Schneider
- Manfred Zindel
Economic problems that did arise nevertheless led to the sale of the printing works (1995) and bookbinding (1997).
From 1998
In November 1998 Winklers Verlag was taken over by the Westermann Verlagsgruppe Braunschweig, which in 2004 incorporated it as one of five brands into the newly founded Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann Schroedel Diesterweg Schöningh Winklers GmbH. Since the end of 2017, in the course of the introduction of the "umbrella brand strategy", the departure from the traditional publishing brands of the Westermann Verlagsgruppe has been initiated in the education market: New titles and products are characterized by a uniform corporate design and, in addition to the publishing brand , also bear the Westermann Group's logo . In the long term, the Winklers publishing brand is to be completely replaced by the Westermann logo.
Individual evidence
- ^ History - Westermann Group. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ^ Winklers - Westermann Group. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Winklers Verlag. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Darmstadt District Court, HRA No. 4216
- ↑ 75 years of Winklers Verlag 1902-1977 . In: Winklers Verlag (Hrsg.): Winklers wing pen . No. 3 . Darmstadt 1977, p. 9 f .
- ^ Westermann Group: Westermann Group History. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
- ^ Susanne Király: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt Winklers Verlag. Darmstadt City Archives, accessed on February 19, 2019 (German).
- ^ Stenographers Association Darmstadt: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary , Darmstadt 2011 Festschrift. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Winklers as a brand in the Westermann Group. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .