Westermann Verlag
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
publishing firm, founded in the 19th century by George Westermann (23 February 1810 in Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
; 7 September 1879 in Wiesbaden). Several other generations of the Westermann
Westermann
The originally German surname Westermann can refer to:Persons with that surname:* Antje Westermann , German Actress* Anton Westermann , German Hellenist...
succeeded him.
In 1986, the "Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe" in Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
, comprising numerous branches, became part of Medien-Union based in Ludwigshafen, employing 800.
Westermann is renowned for its meticulous world history-atlas in German, the Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, generally known as "the Westermann".
For use in schools, they continue to publish the Carl Diercke Schul-Atlas, a series started in the 19th century, since called Diercke Weltatlas. They also offer products related to or using Google Earth
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...
, 3D-technology, and globes.
Branches
- Westermann Schulbuchverlag (Braunschweig)
- Georg Westermann Verlag (Braunschweig)
- Westermann Lernspielverlag GmbH (Braunschweig)
- Westermann Wien im Verlag E. Dorner GmbH (ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
) - Pauz-Westermann Könyvkiadó Kft. (CelldömölkCelldömölkis the fourth largest city in Vas County. Parts of the Eragon movie were filmed here. The town has 12 thousand inhabitants can be found in the centre of Kemenesalja Hills. It has a history older than 750 years...
, HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
) - Westermann Druck GmbH (Braunschweig)
- Westermann Druck Zwickau GmbH (ZwickauZwickauZwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...
) - Arena Verlag GmbH (WürzburgWürzburgWürzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....
) - Schroedel Verlag (Braunschweig)
- Verlag Moritz Diesterweg (Braunschweig)
- Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh (Braunschweig)
- Winklers Verlag (DarmstadtDarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
) - VSB-Verlagsservice Braunschweig GmbH (Braunschweig)