Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft
German publisher (1906–1991)
The Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (AVG, AVg, Aka, AV; English: Academic publishing company) in Leipzig was an important German academic publisher, which was founded in 1906.
The original Jewish owners of the publishing house and key employees were expropriated during the time of the Nazi regime, emigrated and founded new scientific publishing houses in other countries. The publishing house was then named Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Becker & Erler.
After World War II, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR) the Leipzig branch of the publishing house was transformed into Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig in 1947 and 1951. This was dissolved in 1991 as a consequence of the German reunification.
Between 1953 and 1983, another Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft seeing itself as the legal successor of the original company existed in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/BRD) in Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden.
Today, there are two German publishing houses claiming to stand in the tradition of the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, AULA-Verlag and AKA-Verlag, although legally they are new and independent foundations.
History
Gustav Fock founded an antiquarian bookshop in Leipzig in 1879. Leo Salomon Jolowicz (born 12 August 1868 in Posen; died 7 June 1940 in Leipzig) took over the bookshop in 1898 and turned it into the largest and best-known scientific antiquarian bookshop in Germany.
On 4 April 1906, Jolowicz then founded the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft with Gustav Rothschild (procurator at the Fock bookshop) und Paul Werthauer, who left in 1914 already.
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