(DVW) (English: ''German Publisher of Sciences'') was a scientific publishing house in the former

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(GDR/).

Berlin, Mitte, Taubenstrasse 10, Patzenhofer-Brauerei

Situated in Berlin, DVW was founded as (VEB) on 1 January 1954 as the successor of the main department of "university literature" of the publisher (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 and also published textbooks on topics of

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and

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. DVW was among the publishers of the (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 ' (PAOs) dictated by the East German government. In 1988, with a turnaround of 8.4 million

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, DVW lost 1.3 million East German . During the

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

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and was dissolved in 1995. The DVW archive was transferred to a depot of the as well as to the . Documents related to the production of scientific publications remained with .

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