Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching

Oberhaching

Oberhaching is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, with 13,100 inhabitants on an area of 26.6 km². It is located some 15 km south of Munich city center and looks back at a 1,250 year history....

, Upper Bavaria. Since 1950 the company, that formerly went udern the name of Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, has published the Alpine Club Guide

Alpine Club Guide

The Alpine Club Guides are the standard series of Alpine guides that cover all the important mountain groups in the Eastern Alps. They are produced jointly by the German , Austrian and South Tyrol Alpine Clubs...

s in cooperation with the German Alpine Club

German Alpine Club

The German Alpine Club or DAV is the largest climbing association in the world and the eighth largest sports union in Germany. It is organised into 354 legally independent branches with a total of around 815,000 members...

 (DAV), the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) and the South Tyrol Alpine Club.

History

The company was founded as a specialist Alpine publisher on 16 November 1920 in Munich by Rudolf Rother sen., a bookseller and mountaineer. The publishing house was based on Verlag Walter Schmidkunz, which went out of business and in which Rother was a co-owner.

After the firm had sold its in-house mail-order service, the magazine Bergwelt ("Mountain World") and its own printers in the 1980s, the family business was taken over in 1990 by Freytag-Berndt u. Artaria KG.