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Verlag Harri Deutsch
GenreMathematics, sciences, technology
Founded1961
FounderHarri Deutsch
Defunct2013
Fatedissolved
Successor
Frankfurt am Main, Zürich and Thun
Key people
Martin Kegel
Footnotes / references
978-3-87144

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

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Between 1963[nb 2] and about 1979 the publisher also had an office in Zürich. Around 1974 another branch was opened in Thun.[nb 3]

The company's activities focussed mostly on

MIR
, 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 branch Verlag Harri Deutsch AG went into liquidation on 26 October 2000[8] and was dissolved on 22 August 2002.[8] The German Harri Deutsch GmbH[9][nb 3] was reorganized into the Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Harri Deutsch GmbH on 19 January 2001 under Kegel's lead.[10] With no successor in sight it stopped its business activities on 31 May 2013[10][11] to prepare for Kegel's retirement later that year.[12][13] Selected stock and publishing rights were transferred to the German publisher Europa-Lehrmittel.[14][15]

In a parallel development, the bookstore was sold off to the

Heymanns group, Cologne, on 1 January 2001[16] as Buchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH,[16][17] which went into insolvency[18] and was taken over by Fachbuch Mediasales GmbH & Co. KG in Gladenbach in 2004.[19][20] When this became insolvent as well in 2006,[21] the bookstore was refounded by Kegel as Wissenschaftliche Verlagsbuchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH on 8 March 2007 until it was finally closed on 22 August 2013.[12][22]

Selected publications

One of the publisher's bestsellers was

print runs were dedicated for Verlag Harri Deutsch who had obtained a license from Teubner for distribution of the title in Western countries.[7][23][5][24][nb 5] Following licensing problems resulting from market environmental and legal changes caused by the German reunification, the title was reworked by Gerhard Musiol [de
] and Heiner Mühlig now based on the latest non-Teubner influenced Russian edition and independently produced by Verlag Harri Deutsch.

The

VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig.[25]

Another highly regarded title, licensed from the East-German

A Course in Higher Mathematics
).

Licensed from the Russian

Izrail Solomonovich Gradshteyn
in 1981.

Licensed from

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz. The title was also available in English as Course of Theoretical Physics
.

Harri Deutsch also licensed a series of classical scientific works known as "

VEB Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft
.

Authored by

Springer-Verlag
.

Another successful title was Taschenbuch der Riechstoffe (Pocketbook of fragrances) by Dieter Martinez and Roland Hartwig.

In 1999, Harri Deutsch introduced the electronic publishing series cliXX (for educational courses) and DeskTop (for encyclopedic publications) under the label hades (harri deutsch electronic science) under the editorial guidance of Horst Stöcker[26] utilizing HTML structures.[27]

See also

Notes

  1. GND 2025635-8 and 1065358334. (NB. The Berlin Wall
    was erected in 1961 as well.)
  2. GND 106536363X and 1064137555
    .
  3. ^
    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. GND 136886469
    .
  5. Berlin (West), as well as for Switzerland, but not for Austria and other German-speaking regions. According to Hans-Joachim Girlich and Anna-Maria Seemann, Edition Leipzig
    was responsible for distribution to Austria.

References

  1. ^ "Buchhandlung Harri Deutsch Hauptseite" [Buchhandlung Harri Deutsch main page] (in German). 2000. Archived from the original on 2000-01-19. Retrieved 2016-03-31. 50 Jahre Kompetenz im Fachbuchhandel mit Ladengeschäften an der Universität – Führend in Frankfurt und der Region Rhein-Main – Bereits seit 1995 mit einem Shop im Internet.
  2. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1992. According to Christoph Links
    this work contains a number of factual errors.)
  3. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
     in 1996.)
  4. ^
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    in 2016.)
  5. ^ a b Ziegler, Dorothea (2002-02-21). "Der "Bronstein"". Archiv der Stiftung Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner, Leipzig (in German). Frauwalde, Germany. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  6. ^ a b c Weiß, Jürgen (2002-03-21). "Teubner-Einzeltitel" [Individual Teubner titles] (in German). Leipzig, Germany: Edition am Gutenbergplatz Leipzig (EAGLE). Archived from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  7. ^ a b "Verlag Harri Deutsch AG". moneyhouse – Commercial Register and Business Information. 2002-08-22. CH-092.3.008.240-7. Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  8. ^ "Harri Deutsch GmbH". moneyhouse – Handelsregister. 1993-05-03. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  9. ^ a b "Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Harri Deutsch GmbH". moneyhouse – Handelsregister. 2013-08-21. Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 36747. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  10. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2013-05-17. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  11. ^
    BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2013-09-16. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  12. ^ "Harri Deutsch-Geschäftsführer Martin Kegel tritt in Ruhestand – "Ich arbeitete in einer unvergleichlichen Branche"" [Harri Deutsch manager Martin Kegel retires]. Börsenblatt (in German). Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. 2013-09-07. Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  13. ^ "Harri Deutsch Verlag beendet Verlagsgeschäft – Europa-Lehrmittel übernimmt Verlagsrechte" [Verlag Harri Deutsch stops publishing activities – Europa-Lehrmittel takes over publishing rights]. Börsenblatt (in German). Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. 2013-05-21. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  14. ^ "Fachwissen für die Hochschule – Gesamtverzeichnis – Edition Harri Deutsch – Mathematik, Physik, Chemie, Biologie, Technik Sachbuch" (PDF) (Catalog) (in German). Europa-Lehrmittel. 2015-04-30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-27.
  15. ^
    BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2004-08-30. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  16. ^ "Buchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH". moneyhouse – Handelsregister. 2010-10-18. Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 51335. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  17. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2004-08-27. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  18. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2004-10-07. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  19. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH. 2004-10-18. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  20. ^ Köhler, Manfred (2006-05-30). "Eine Schließung nach der anderen – Gleich drei traditionelle Buchhandlungen in Frankfurt müssen ihr Geschäft aufgeben. Unterdessen sind die großen Handelsketten weiter auf Expansionskurs" [A series of closures – Three traditional bookstores in Frankfurt are forced to close their business while large chain stores continue to expand]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-03-28.
  21. ^ "Wissenschaftliche Verlagsbuchhandlung Harri Deutsch GmbH". moneyhouse – Handelsregister. 2016-01-29. Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 79345. Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  22. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  23. ^ Giesecke, Martin [in German] (1960-11-08). "Nr. 80". 22199 B.G. Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart (Notice). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) (NB. Company archive of B. G. Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart.)
  24. ^ Hammer, Helmut (2021-02-05). "Horst Kuchling verstorben: Die Hochschule Mittweida trauert um einen wissenschaftlich-publizistischen Botschafter". HSMW-Top-News. Hochschulkommunikation: HSMW-News (in German). Hochschule Mittweida. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  25. Universität Frankfurt am Main
    gewonnen werden.
  26. ^ "Das Label "hades"" (in German). Verlag Harri Deutsch. 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-11-10. Um die Chancen der neuen Informationsmärkte wahrzunehmen, hat der Verlag Harri Deutsch unter dem Markenzeichen harri deutsch electronic science – kurz: "hades" – seine Aktivitäten im Bereich des elektronischen Publizierens gebündelt. Die ersten Projekte unter dem Label "hades" sind die Reihen DeskTop und cliXX, in denen elektronische Nachschlagewerke (DeskTop) und Lehrgänge (cliXX) für Schüler, Studenten, Lehrer, Wissenschaftler und Praktiker entwickelt werden. Dabei werden HTML-Strukturen verwendet.

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