Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften

Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften (DVW) was a scientific publishing house in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR).

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Berlin-Mitte, Taubenstrasse 10, former de

Situated in Berlin, DVW was founded as Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) on 1954-01-01 as the successor of the main department of "university literature" of the publisher de (VWV). During the first ten years, DVW, for the most part, published mathematical and scientific literature aimed at university education. About 780 titles were introduced with a total print run of some 3.7 million books. In 1964, DVW took over parts of the programme of de and also published textbooks on topics of philosophy, history and sociology. DVW was among the publishers of the de (MSB).

Whilst more than a third of the production was distributed into Western foreign countries, the publisher still did not make a profit due to the fixed low book prices, politically motivated so called Preisanordnungen (PAOs) dictated by the East German government. In 1988, with a turnaround of 8.4 million East German mark, DVW lost 1.3 million East German mark.

During the German reunification, the publishing house was converted into a GmbH on 1990-06-30 and cost cutting measures were implemented. In October 1991, DVW was sold to de with some assets being transferred to other publishing houses. In February 1992, DVW stopped all its activities. The GmbH went into liquidation and was dissolved in 1995.

The DVW archive was transferred to a depot of the DV-Informationssysteme und Service GmbH as well as to the Bundesarchiv Berlin. Documents related to the production of scientific publications remained with Hüthig.

See also

• Verlag Harri Deutsch

References

• (Update 2013: , urn:nbn:de:101:1-20140102976, ISBN 978-3-86284-256-8; Update 2012: , urn:nbn:de:101:1-201203013973, ISBN 978-3-86284-067-0; first edition: ISBN 978-3-86153-523-2 / ISBN 3-86153-523-8. . OCLC 316287137 and 770532845. . NB. This work is based on the author's dissertation at Humboldt-Universität Berlin under the title Die Umgestaltung der ostdeutschen Verlagslandschaft im Prozess der deutschen Einheit (OCLC 724022238, ) in 2008.)