Lutherisches Verlagshaus GmbH (LVH) was a German church publishing house based in Hannover. The publisher operated from 1951 until its dissolution in 2017, publishing theological, religious and historical books, as well as church periodicals.[1][2][3]
Design and History
The publisher’s corporate history is better recorded than its logo history. The firm was founded on 1 April 1951 by Herbert Renner in Berlin, later moving to Hamburg and then to Hannover.[1] A separate entity, the Lutherhaus-Verlag (LHV), had been established in 1947 under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hannover.[2] In 1982, the LHV acquired the Lutherisches Verlagshaus in Hamburg (previously located in Berlin), and in 1987 it took on the theology program of the Johannes-Stauda-Verlag.[2]
On 1 January 1992, the Lutherhaus Verlag GmbH and the Lutherisches Verlagshaus GmbH merged, with the combined entity operating under the name Lutherisches Verlagshaus.[1] The publisher filed for insolvency in October 2016 and was dissolved at the end of June 2017.[3][4]
Meaning and Symbolism
While the Luther rose is a widely recognized symbol for Lutheranism generally, no source confirms that this publisher’s mark incorporated it.[5] Any claims about specific symbolic elements in the LVH logo remain unverified.
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