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Top 25 Legal publishers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 116 legal publishers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,641 professional contacts across them, including 314 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.
This list covers legal 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 20, 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 legal publishers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft is one of the leading academic publishers in the fields of law, social sciences and the humanities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der multimediale Fachverlag für Informationen aus Recht, Wirtschaft, Steuern in Köln publiziert seit 120 Jahren für Experten aus der Praxis, Beratung und Wissenschaft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Verlagsgruppe Hüthig Jehle Rehm mit den Marken rehm, r.v.decker und jehle ist ein juristischer Fachverlag für die Personalleitung und –sachbearbeitung sowie für weitere Fach-…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit 1997 berichtet JUVE über Anwaltskanzleien, die wirtschaftsberatend in Deutschland tätig sind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpmann Schmidt ist ein bundesweit tätiges juristisches Repetitorium und eine Fachverlagsgesellschaft mit Hauptsitz in Münster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 25 years, Lexxion has been at the forefront of European legal publishing, delivering expert analysis and knowledge across the EU's most complex regulatory landscapes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die HUSS-MEDIEN ist ein klassischer B2B-Verlag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Bund-Verlag GmbH ist ein Fachverlag für Arbeitsrecht und Sozialrecht mit der Versandbuchhandlung Buch und Mehr als eigenem Geschäftsbereich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LTO ist das größte deutsche Online-Magazin für Juristen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As an independent family business, Richard Boorberg Verlag is now one of the 100 largest German publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “wbv Publikation bietet ein attraktives Programm in den Bereichen Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften, Pädagogik sowie Verwaltung & Recht.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Publikationen des 1981 gegründeten Presse Fachverlages sind auf die Themen Vertrieb, Verkauf und Marketing von Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und sogenannten Non-Press-Produkten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “225 Jahre Kompetenz im Recht – juristische Fachmedien für Rechtspraxis, Studium und Wissenschaft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1902 gegründet, zählt Schäffer-Poeschel heute zu den renommiertesten Wirtschaftsfachverlagen im deutschen Sprachraum und steht im Verbund der Haufe Group als moderner und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Verlag Neuer Merkur GmbH is a publishing company based out of Behringstr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zum IMPRESSUM: (finden Sie auch, wenn Sie auf den Button "Kontakt" klicken)>> Zum DATENSCHUTZ: - Von einem Ein-Mann-Betrieb Anfang der 90er Jahre hat sich die…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KSV Medien ist Teil der Verlagsgruppe C.H.Beck und gehört zu den führenden deutschen Verlagen für kommunal- und landesrechtliche Fachliteratur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die id-Verlags-GmbH gehört zur Unternehmensgruppe C.H.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Eyepress Fachmedien GmbH mit Sitz in Mülheim an der Ruhr ist aus der fast 40-jährigen Geschichte der Verlagsgruppe Ratingen hervorgegangen und ist seit 2019 ein eigenständiges…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SV SAXONIA VERLAG für Recht, Wirtschaft und Kultur GmbH is a publisher company based out of Lignerallee 3, Dresden, Saxony, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NDS Neue Druck- und Service-GmbH is a publishing company based out of 46 Dr-Dürrwanger-Str, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “kidsgo Verlag GmbH is a publishing company based out of Karl-Grüneklee-Straße 22, 37077 Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FENICOM GmbH is a publishing company based out of 36 Am Hafen, Braunschweig, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: legal 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 legal publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of legal publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name legal 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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Legal publishers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 116 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 legal 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 “legal 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 legal 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 legal 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, 314 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 20, 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.
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 legal 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 legal publishers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 116 legal 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?
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, headquartered in Baden-Baden, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most legal publishers?
Hamburg leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (8) and Koln (7).
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 314 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 116 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 20, 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.