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.
Newspapers owned by this Group include: Die Zeit (Germany's largest opinion-oriented newspaper), and Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel.
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.
Among its publishers are:
U.S.
- 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
- S. Fischer Verlag
- Wolfgang Krüger
- O.W. Barth
- Fretz & Wasmuth
- Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt
U.K.