Funke Mediengruppe
Illustration — New "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" just printed (2011) Funke Mediengruppe (formerly WAZ-Mediengruppe) is Germany's third-largest newspaper and magazine publisher with a total of over 500 publications in eight countries. The group's largest paper is Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the largest newspaper in the Ruhr metropolitan region. Other properties in Germany include the TV magazine Gong and the woman's magazine Die Aktuelle.
Also recorded as WAZ-Mediengruppe
Funke Mediengruppe
Unterberg, Rolf · Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F009687-0002 / Unterberg, Rolf / CC-BY-SA 3.0 · This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Essen
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — New "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" just printed (2011) Funke Mediengruppe (formerly WAZ-Mediengruppe) is Germany's third-largest newspaper and magazine publisher with a total of over 500 publications in eight countries. The group's largest paper is Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the largest newspaper in the Ruhr metropolitan region. Other properties in Germany include the TV magazine Gong and the woman's magazine Die Aktuelle.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Funke Mediengruppe. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
wikipedia incomplete · checked 25 September 2026
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
gnd · 1041249314 · wikidata · Q137317 · wikipedia · Funke Mediengruppe
In this article
Overview
Overview
Besides Germany, Funke Mediengruppe has publications in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Albania, and Russia. The company formed Media Print Macedonia and owns several newspapers and magazines in North Macedonia. It also partially owns the Austrian Kronen Zeitung and Kurier. In December 2010 WAZ Mediagroup sold all its assets in Bulgaria to a joint venture between Austrian investors and local tycoons. Until then the company had owned the two largest daily newspapers Trud and 24 hours, the weekly newspaper 168 hours, and a large portfolio of magazines. In 2012, the Funke family bought out the shares of the Brost family and renamed the company. In 2013, Funke acquired several papers and magazines, including Berliner Morgenpost, Hamburger Abendblatt, Bild der Frau, and Hörzu, from Axel Springer AG.
Alte Kirche Langerfeld in Wuppertal -Langerfeld
Frank Vincentz
Small shop in Preußisch Oldendorf, District of Minden-Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
TUBS · NOTE: This image is a panorama consisting of multiple frames that were merged or stitched in Photoshop CS 3 Photo Merge. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulatio
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
Explore 2012
The full dated record · 3 entries
2012
Funke Mediengruppe established.
2012
Funke Mediengruppe is recorded from 2012.
2012
Funke Mediengruppe was established or created in 2012.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Germany
Context
Primary material
Context
The circumstances in which Funke Mediengruppe stands. Established or created in 2012. Recorded as publishing house. Mediengruppe has its headquarters at Essen. Situated in Germany.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1041249314, Funke Mediengruppe.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q137317: Funke Mediengruppe
Unverified · Wikidata
reference work
- “Funke Mediengruppe”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1041249314, Funke Mediengruppe.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Partially resolvedauthority record
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Publishers and printers
5,459 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Fukushima UniversityOrganisation
- FuncomOrganisation
- Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical ExperimentsOrganisation
- Funk & WagnallsOrganisation
- Fusosha PublishingOrganisation
- FutabashaOrganisation
- Future MedicineOrganisation
- G. GroteOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Funke Mediengruppe?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.