In February, it was announced that Alpha, the largest chain of Christian bookshops in Germany, was going bankrupt.
However, most of the establishments and dozens of jobs seem to have been saved.
As announced by the lawyer in charge of the case, Francke-Buch, another Christian bookshop chain, took over the operations of 11 of the shops from September. Tim Schneider explained, according to the trade magazine Buchmarkt: “My goal was to preserve as many jobs as possible and make the company fit for the future. This has been achieved”.
The managing director of the new company, Klaus Meiß, expressed in August 2025: “We are delighted that we can continue our Christian literary work in many places with our…