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10<br />

175 Years of Bertelsmann<br />

1835 – 1930<br />

1835 – 1930<br />

1829 – Carl Bertelsmann’s residence and place of business<br />

at Alte Kirchplatz (old church square)<br />

Carl Bertelsmann chose Psalm 24 as the motto of his new<br />

publishing company: “Lift up your heads, O gates! and be<br />

lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in”<br />

In 1868, the company left its original headquarters on Kirchplatz<br />

and moved to Bahnhofstrasse (today Eickhoffstrasse)<br />

in Gütersloh<br />

Carl Bertelsmann, a printer and bookbinder, founded C. Bertelsmann Verlag in 1835. In the first one hundred years of its<br />

history, the publishing company’s program was dominated by the Christian-Protestant tradition. Th e founder’s son, Heinrich<br />

Bertelsmann, and his son-in-law Johannes Mohn continued to run the business in the traditional way, but gradually expanded<br />

the publishing program to include philology, history, youth literature and missionary writings.<br />

Bertelsmann Annual Report 2009

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