John Meinert Printing (Pty) Ltd was a

publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

, named after its founder John Meinert, businessman and former

mayor of Windhoek The city of Windhoek, capital of South West Africa, then Namibia, was officially founded on 18 October 1890 by Curt Karl Bruno von François, an Imperial German Colonial Official in the ''Schutztruppe'', to serve as capital of German South West A ...

. It owned the country's only large printing works. In 1991 the business was sold to

Namibia Media Holdings Namibia Media Holdings (NMH, previously Democratic Media Holdings, DMH) is a publishing house in Namibia. Founded in 1992, it publishes three major Namibian newspapers, the Afrikaans-language '' Republikein'', the German '' Allgemeine Zeitung'', ...

. The publishing house was founded as ''Windhuker Druckerei'' in

German South West Africa German South West Africa (german: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. With a total area of ...

. John Meinert entered as managing director in 1913 and bought the business in 1917. John Meinert Printing owned the publishing house ''Deutscher Verlag'', the publisher of the German-language daily ''

Allgemeine Zeitung The ''Allgemeine Zeitung'' was the leading political daily journal in Germany in the first part of the 19th century. It has been widely recognised as the first world-class German journal and a symbol of the German press abroad. The ''Allgemeine ...

''. Later, the weekly '' Windhoek Advertiser'' was launched. It also ran Namibia's only large printing works. All major Namibian newspapers were printed at John Meinert. In 1991 the company was incorporated into Democratic Media Holdings (today

) which founded its own printing works, Newsprint Namibia, one year later. The rights to the name were sold in 1999; The ''John Meinert Printing'' company in Windhoek is otherwise unrelated to the entity that owned Namibia's printing works.

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