Ziemsen Publishing House

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The A. Ziemsen publishing was a publisher of Wittenberg .

It was founded by textile merchant Amandus Ziemsen in 1902. In the beginning, textile technology books and magazines were published; then a church magazine. The technically oriented publisher also published a furniture newspaper and a magazine on conveyor technology and freight traffic. After the Second World War, from 1949, he published the first issue in the well-known series: “ Die neue Brehm-Bücherei ” (NBB). It is still continued today in the Westarp Wissenschaften-Verlag Hohenwarsleben. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publishing house ran into financial difficulties and had to close around 1993.

literature

  • Christoph Links: The fate of the GDR publishers: privatization and its consequences. Ch. Links Verlag, 2010