Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft

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 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.

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