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The Verlag Harri Deutsch (VHD, HD) with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as in Zürich and Thun, Switzerland, was a German publishing house founded in 1961 and closed in 2013.

Overview

The Verlag Harri Deutsch with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was a German publishing house founded in 1961[nb 1] as a spin-off of the scientific bookstore Fachbuchhandlung Harri Deutsch (FHD), which had existed for about a decade earlier.[1] Both were situated near Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Between 1963[nb 2] and about 1979 the publisher also had an office in Zürich. Around 1974 another dependance was opened in Thun.[nb 3]

The company's activities focussed mostly on textbooks and encyclopedic works in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other sciences and technologies, in the first three decades in particular titles licensed from publishers of the former Eastern Bloc[2][3][4] including the East-German publishers de (Edition Leipzig), de (BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft),[5][6] de (VEB Bibliographisches Institut), de (Verlag Enzyklopädie; VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie), de (Fachbuchverlag Leipzig; VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig), VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, the Russian publisher Nauka (Hаука) and others. The publications, some of which came in colored plastic soft covers, were popular also for their often very affordable prices.

In 1997, Martin Kegel took over the active management of the company. After the death of the founder Harri Deutsch[nb 4] in 2000, the Swiss dependance Verlag Harri Deutsch AG went into liquidation on 2000-10-26[7] and was dissolved on 2002-08-22.[7] The German Harri Deutsch GmbH[8][nb 3] was reorganized into the Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Harri Deutsch GmbH on 2001-01-19 under Kegel's lead.[9] With no successor in sight it stopped its business activities on 2013-05-31[9][10] in order to prepare for Kegel's retirement later that year.[11][12] Selected stock and publishing rights were transferred to the German publisher de (Europa-Lehrmittel).[13][14]

In a parallel development, the bookstore was sold off to the Heymanns group, Cologne, on 2001-01-01[15] as Buchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH,[15][16] which went into insolvency[17] and was taken over by Fachbuch Mediasales GmbH & Co. KG in Gladenbach in 2004.[18][19] When this became insolvent as well in 2006,[20] the bookstore was refounded by Kegel as Wissenschaftliche Verlagsbuchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH on 2007-03-08 until it was finally closed on 2013-08-22.[11][21]

Selected publications

One of the publisher's bestsellers was Taschenbuch der Mathematik (A Guide Book to Mathematics, Handbook of Mathematics). Originally this work by the Russians Bronstein and Semendjajew was translated and edited by Viktor and Dorothea Ziegler and Günter Grosche for the East-German publisher de (BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft).[5][6] Some contingents of the East German print runs were dedicated for Verlag Harri Deutsch who had obtained a license from Teubner for distribution of the title in Western countries.[6][22][nb 5] Following licensing problems resulting from market environmental and legal changes caused by the German reunification, the title was reworked by de (Gerhard Musiol) and Heiner Mühlig now based on the latest non-Teubner influenced Russian edition and independently produced by Verlag Harri Deutsch.

The de (Taschenbuch der Physik) (literally: Pocketbook of physics) by Horst Kuchling was another bestseller licensed from de (Fachbuchverlag Leipzig; VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig).

Another highly regarded title, licensed from the East-German VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, was Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov's seven-volume work Lehrgang der höheren Mathematik (A Course in Higher Mathematics).

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Founding date of German Verlag Harri Deutsch: 1961-01-17, Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. (NB. The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 as well.)
  2. ↑ Founding date of Swiss Verlag Harri Deutsch: 1963, Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Frankfurt am Main-based Harri Deutsch GmbH was founded on 1992-12-18 and formally opened on 1993-05-03. It was reorganized into the Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Harri Deutsch GmbH on 2001-01-19. The Thun-based Harri Deutsch AG opened on 1993-07-06 and was liquidated since 2000-10-26. It was dissolved on 2002-08-22.
  4. ↑ Harri Deutsch (1922-2000), Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
  5. ↑ According to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. the distribution license for Verlag Harri Deutsch for this title was for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) including Berlin (West), as well as for Switzerland, but not for Austria and other German-speaking regions. According to Hans-Joachim Girlich, de (Edition Leipzig) was responsible for distribution to Austria.

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (NB. This book is based on the author's magister thesis (OCLC 758411591) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1992. According to Christoph Links this work contains a number of factual errors.)
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [1] (NB. This book is based on the author's magister thesis at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in 1996.)
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External links

  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Archived web site of Verlag Harri Deutsch, 1999 - 2013, in German)
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Archived web site of Fachbuchhandlung Harri Deutsch, 1999 - 2003, in German)
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Web site of Europa-Lehrmittel)

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