Räthgloben 1917 Verlag has sold hundreds of thousands of globes of the highest cartographic and aesthetic quality on every continent over its long history.

Paul Räth, the founder of the company, was a man who knew quite clearly that education has a great deal to do with images.

The image of our earth as round, as a globe, stands at the very beginning of our modern worldview.

Two globes from Paul Räth’s workshop are displayed today as first rate exhibits in museums today: what very well may be the first illuminated globe with electrical light from 1921 is exhibited in the Globe Museum of the Vienna National Library.
 

A 64-cm diameter globe with a hand modeled surface relief first produced for a North German Lloyd luxury liner has adorned the collection of the German Museum in Munich since 1925.

The old-established Leipzig company has, albeit with some bitter sections, survived crises, wars, a planned economy and privatization, which speaks for the soundness of our products.

Räthgloben 1917 Verlag has predominantly belonged to the Italian corporate groups Tecnodidattica S.p.A. and Nova Rico S.p.A since 1999, which mass produce globes in Genoa and Florence.

Hand laminated globes produced precisely by hand, continue to justify the predicate “Quality from Leipzig”.

The wide assortment of inexpensive globes also contributes to the company’s current success.