Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a Stuttgart-based publishing giant which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike.

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Stuttgart - Publishing - Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses - Agatha Christie - Jean-Paul Sartre - Ernest Hemingway - John Updike

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Newspapers owned by this Group include: Die Zeit (Germany's largest opinion-oriented newspaper), and Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel.

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Newspaper - Die Zeit - Der Tagesspiegel

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Established by Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948, the group first began as a German book club. In the 1960s, it purchased Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag, two German publishing companies. In 1985, it acquired the book division of Holt, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company. One year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr., and just one year later, purchased a 70% majority interest in The Macmillan Group.

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Georg von Holtzbrinck - 1948 - German - Book club - 1960s - Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt - S. Fischer Verlag - 1985 - Henry Holt Book Company - Scientific American - Magazine - $ - 1994 - Majority interest - Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Roger W. Straus, Jr. - The Macmillan Group

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Among its publishers are:

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U.S.

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• Bedford/St. Martin's
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Henry Holt and Company
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Picador
• St. Martin's Press
• Tor Books
• W.H. Freeman
• Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group
• Worth Publishers

Germany

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• S. Fischer Verlag
• Wolfgang Krüger
• O.W. Barth
• Fretz & Wasmuth
• Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt

U.K.

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• The Macmillan Group - including the Nature Publishing Group