Bergverlag Rother
Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching, Upper Bavaria. Since 1950 the company, that formerly went under the name of Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, had published the Alpine Club Guides in cooperation with the German Alpine Club (DAV), the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) and the South Tyrol Alpine Club. Rother publish a "famous series of English language guides" covering most of the popular walking destinations in the Alps and Europe.
Bergverlag Rother
Edward Theodore Compton · Wolfgang Pusch: Großglockner. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, München 2001, ISBN 3-7633-7509-0. · Public domain
- Founded
- 1920
- Headquarters
- Oberhaching · Munich
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Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching, Upper Bavaria. Since 1950 the company, that formerly went under the name of Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, had published the Alpine Club Guides in cooperation with the German Alpine Club (DAV), the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) and the South Tyrol Alpine Club. Rother publish a "famous series of English language guides" covering most of the popular walking destinations in the Alps and Europe.
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The company was founded on 16 November 1920 in Munich by Rudolf Rother sen., a bookseller and mountaineer, and is one of the oldest and most important specialist Alpine publishers. The publishing house was based on Verlag Walter Schmidkunz, which went out of business and in which Rother was a co-owner. After the firm had sold its in-house mail-order service, the magazine Bergwelt ("Mountain World") and its own printers in the 1980s, the family business was taken over in 1990 by Freytag-Berndt & Artaria.
Landshuter Allee 49, München; bis Oktober 1994 Sitz des Bergverlags Rother
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1920
Bergverlag Rother established.
1920
Bergverlag Rother is recorded from 1920.
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- 1.Alpenvereins- und Gebietsführer.
- 2.Die Geschichte des Verlags
- 3.; abgerufen am 4. November 2010
- 4.Peter Grimm: Schmidkunz – Das vergessene Literaturgenie (PDF; 169 kB); abgerufen am 4. November 2010
- 5.Mit dem Fahrrad begann es…. Die Zeit. 1960-11-18.
- 6.buecher.
- 7.Verein Bayerische Kanugeschichte.
- 8.Neu: Über Fels und Firn.
- 9.Das „Rother Jubiläums-Jahr“ – 100 Jahre Rother Verlag mit Gewinnspiel – DAV Sektion Weiden.
- 10.Hans Henning Kaysers. Sag mal Reichsparteiabzeichen: Ein Junge erinnert sich an seine Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit. 2009. 978-3-8391-9184-2.
- 11.Galerie d’Histoire, André Hüsken: Emailliertes Abzeichen „Skikurs 1930/31, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother München“.
- 12.Rudolf Rother Massif du Mont Blanc.
- 13.Die Geschichte des Rother Bergverlag – Wanderglück.
- 14.Bergverlag Rother Online Shop Bergfreunde.de.
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