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Top 25 Book publishers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 365 book publishers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 5,747 professional contacts across them, including 1,295 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers book publishers headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest book publishers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,068 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH is a Publishing company located in Richard-Reitzner-Allee 2, Haar, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Westermann Gruppe is one of the largest German publishers of educational media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TASCHEN is a leading art-book publisher known for its dazzling and audacious world of eye-catching coffee table books spanning architecture, aphrodisia, art, design, fashion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Bastei Lübbe AG ist der größte unabhängige Publikumsverlag Deutschlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur mit Sitz in München ist Teil der renommierten Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rowohlt Verlag GmbH is a retail company based out of Hamburg, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1928 by Carl Hanser, the company is still owned by the family of the publisher's founder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit unserer Gründung im Jahr 1886 durch Samuel Fischer in Berlin sind die S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als größter deutscher Sachbuchverlag sind wir Teil des Bonnier-Netzwerks und veröffentlichen seit mehr als 20 Jahren erfolgreich Bücher, darunter viele Bestseller im Bereich…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit unseren 13 Verlagsmarken, eingebettet in das Verlagshaus GeraNova Bruckmann, bietet unser Unternehmen mit unseren Büchern, Zeitschriften und digitalen Produkten ein modernes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PIPER Verlag »Ich gehe auf jedes Buch zu, als könnte es ein guter Freund werden«: Mit diesem leidenschaftlichen Bekenntnis zur Literatur schlägt Piper-Verlegerin Felicitas von…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wir sind Deutschlands führender Fachverlag für digitale Themen: Ob Computing, Design oder Fotografie, ob Ausbildung, Beruf oder digitaler Alltag – wir machen Bücher und E-Books…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unter dem Dach der in Weinheim ansässigen Verlagsgruppe Beltz finden sich sowohl die Kinder- und Jugendbuchprogramme BELTZ & Gelberg, Gulliver und BELTZ|Der Kinderbuchverlag als…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deutscher Publikumsverlag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Warum wir tun, was wir tun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit 400 neuen Buchtiteln pro Jahr und 14 Fachzeitschriften zählt Kohlhammer zu den größten wissenschaftlichen Verlagshäusern im deutschsprachigen Raum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das alles sind wir: ein erfolgreicher Publikumsverlag für Kinder- und Geschenkbücher, ein offenes und wissbegieriges Team, bunt in unseren Ideen und begeistert in unserem Tun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co.KG ist ein deutscher Publikumsverlag, der Bücher in den Bereichen Belletristik, Sachbuch und Unterhaltung verlegt und hauptsächlich in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Leading Global Publisher of Illustrated Books That Shape Culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Klett-Cotta publishes a range of books and magazines with a wide range of topics: from literature and fantasy, through general non-fiction, history, politics and philosophy to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind ein modernes Familienunternehmen mit einem Herz für Kinder- und Jugendbücher, Graphic Novels sowie New Adult-Romane.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind dpunkt, der Fachverlag für kreative Köpfe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Pflaum Verlag wurde 1919 durch Richard Pflaum in München gegründet und hat sich zum führenden Fachverlag für Naturheilkunde, Physiotherapie und Lichttechnik entwickelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: book publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names book publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name book publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Book publishers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 365 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among book publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “book publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names book publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among book publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,295 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Book publishers by metro
- Book publishers in Berlin46
- Book publishers in Munchen30
- Book publishers in Hamburg27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names book publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many book publishers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 365 book publishers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Weka Fachmedien Gmbh, headquartered in Haar, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most book publishers?
Berlin leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Munchen (30) and Hamburg (27).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,295 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 365 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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