Pustet

The Pustet Friedrich GmbH & Co. KG is a medium-sized company, which still exists next to the bookstore "Books Pustet " from the graphical big business and Frederick Pustet the publisher Friedrich Pustet. The common corporate headquarters is located in Regensburg.

Formation

The company's beginnings go back to the founder Friedrich Pustet ( 1798-1882 ). Pustet moved in 1826 from Passau to Regensburg where he started with the construction of a bookstore. He moved soon also numerous books themselves and also took over the printing of these works. 1833 Pustet acquired a house in Regensburg Gesandtenstraße ( there is still the principal business of books Pustet ).

1836 Friedrich founded Pustet a paper mill in Laaber and a paper mill in Alling (now part of the municipality Sinzing ).

Between 1865 and 1898, the company expanded greatly: there offices in Cologne, Vienna, Rome, Cincinnati and New York were founded in Valencia and São Paulo emerged dealerships. These branches were abandoned during the 20th century.

In 1957/58 a new building in the Regensburg area Kumpfmuehl was built, in which since book printing and bindery, publishing and administrative offices.

Bookstore Pustet

The bookstore Pustet is one of the largest Bavarian bookstores. All together are ten branches in Bavaria, three of them in Regensburg and one each in Ansbach, Augsburg, Deggendorf, Freising, Landshut, Passau and Straubing.

Books Pustet is currently ranked 5 of buchreport ranking list of the largest German bookstores (as of 2008 ).

Friedrich Pustet Chart big business

The printing press and bindery - is now one of the largest book printers in southern Germany. It will be produced in more than 10 million books for a total of 100 different publishing houses.

Verlag Friedrich Pustet

In the first years of the publishing theological, historical, philosophical, legal, scientific and belletristic literature was issued.

From 1845, began with the printing of a Latin Altar Missal specializing in liturgical works. Soon, the publisher gained in this field world-wide importance. An example is the privilege of 1868, the production and distribution of the new hymn books exclusively Pustet left and the 30 years considered.

Until the early 1960s, the publishing house devoted primarily to the publication of liturgical books. After the liturgical reform in 1963, which limited the use of the national language was allowed in the liturgy, was a realignment. Theology remained a focus, newly arrived the area History / Regionalia.

Today, the publishing program comprises two parts: theology / religion ( liturgy and pastoral care, property and specialist books, science) and history ( biographies, country and city histories, literature and Regensburg Bavaria).