Axel Springer AG

This article treats the medium company Axel Springer AG. For the scientific publishing house independent of it, see Springer publishing house.

**Axel Springer AG**
Form of business organization
Slogan	Vintages, hearing, seeing
Based
Company headquarters
Management	Dr. Mathias Doepfner, chairmen of the board
Coworker	10.700 (2004)
Products	Newspapers
Website	www.more axelspringer.de

Of Axel Springer created Publishing house Axel Springer of Germany is largest newspaper publisher and shifted among other things those and .

The seat of the enterprise is with further centers in and .

1 Shareholder structure
2 Firm history
3 Participation
- 3.1 TV transmitter
4 Other
5 Criticism
- 5.1 Journalism
- 5.2 Relationship with politicians
6 Web on the left of
- 6.1 own
- 6.2 other one

Shareholder structure

the Axel Springer AG

The 34 million (nominal value 3,00 €) become the company at that Frankfurt Stock exchange under that WKN 550135 acted. A maximum value of 153,50 € reached the share in the year 2000, it followed in Stock split in the relationship 1:10. In the year 2005 the share quotation between 90 and 100 euro moves.

50 % (plus 10 shares) of the portions become from that Axel Springer society for journalism GmbH & CO. held. At this are Peace Springer to 90 % as well as Ariane and Axel Sven Springer to ever 5 % takes part. Peace Springer controls thus 55,00003 % and thus the majority of the voters shares.

Further those holds Hellman & Friedman LLC 19,4 % the shares. 9,8 % belongs to the corporation, and 10,8 % are in Strewing possession. [ 1 ], [ 2 ]

Chairman of the is Dr. Mathias Doepfner, chairmen of the Dr. Giuseppe Vita. Individual groups of newspapers are own Publishing trade leader assigned.

That Conversion in the financial year 2004 approximately 2.40 billion euro amounted to compound, from conversions from the selling (1.17 billion euro), the indicator business (0.95 billion euro) and remaining conversions (0.29 billion euro). [ 3 ] The company gains thus approximately half of its conversions with the selling of newspapers and magazines.

Firm history

Axel Springer house in Berlin

After the establishment in the year 1946 Springer in its gives publishing house first the television time writing Hoerzu, the original as well as out. 1959 it acquires the majority to Ullstein publishing house and thus at that and that .

The building of the Publishing house house at that in the year 1966 those follows in Berlin, among other things against " publishes 1974 its narration The lost honour of the Katharina Blum, in which it those Boulevard press criticizes sharply.

After death Axel Springer 1985 its widow takes over Peace the company line and extends the business activity into the 1990er years abroad European.

The media entrepreneur Leo Kirch separates 2002 finally from the enterprise.

Participation

The core business of the AG places still to that of and . Here are beside the supraregional Picture and World above all those and local newspapers (, and Hamburg evening papers) considerably.

Beside that Hoerzu shifts the AG those Television time writings Picture week, Radio clock and TVNeu. Also within this range became Editorships folded up, there the publishing house itself Synergies expected.

It possesses further own Printering and is involved in the press wholesale. In the last years participation in ons-line service was acquired.

TV transmitter

In the autumn 2005 the AG announced, it wants their past portion of that ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG substantially expand and beside all (voters) common stock a quarter of the preference stocks also approximately acquire. In November 2005 this was first forbidden.

So far is the AG at Hamburg Lokalsender Hamburg 1 as well as in two produktionsgesellschaften takes part.

Other

Publishing house house in Hamburg

Orthographie

Those Spelling reform of 1996 by journalists of the publishing house usually one judged critically. After the reform was converted 1999 first, one decided already 2004 again for own, to the "classical orthography" ajar ways of writing. These were again extended in August 2005 and to fill at present approximately 350 sides.

Training

The company operates a its own since 1986 in Hamburg and Berlin Journalist school and forms in several commercial and technical occupations out.

Persons with purchase to the Axel Springer AG

Axel Springer (firm founders) and Peace Springer (largest Aktionaerin)
and (students), Guenter Wallraff and (authors)
Rudolf Mueller (escape aid) and Reinhold chicken (border soldier of the GDR)
Udo Roebel, "Pepe" Boenisch (former picture editors-in-chief)
Leo Kirch, Haim Saban (media entrepreneurs)

Criticism

See also: , Cologne newspaper fight

Journalism

The publishing house often becomes a politically right-conservative Agenda Setting after-said, that particularly in the newspapers and is recognizable. Choice advertisement that is forbidden in all magazines of the Spinger of company. The company line forbade all company-owned publications in favor of right parties to accept announcements of the left wing party and/or. to print.

Relationship with politicians

Picture editor-in-chief Dock Diekmann is close with the former Federal Chancellor gets used to.

Web on the left of

own

more axelspringer.de - official Web operational readiness level of the Axel Springer AG
Principles of the AG
"new beginning with a ageweak OPEL" - articles by Uwe Bahnsen over the establishment of publishing house, World on Sunday, 15. May 2005