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Cornelsen Verlag

Logo: Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

German publishing house

Cornelsen Verlag (German pronunciation: ) is a German textbook publisher that offers educational media in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Initially focused on the English language, the publishing house, founded in Berlin in 1946, specialized in the development of textbooks for use in primary and secondary schools. It now offers learning and teaching materials in a variety of media.2 It employed 1,300 people in 2024.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1946Founded1
  • HeadquartersBerlin1
  • Websitewww.cornelsen.de
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1
  • LEI5299004IB8NO0QG84R913
  • StatusInactive3
  • LEI statusRetired3
  • Registered addressMecklenburgische Str. 53, 14197 Berlin, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 1147963

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Photo: Cornelsen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Cornelsen Verlag (German pronunciation: [kɔʁˈneːlzn̩]) is a German textbook publisher that offers educational media in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.2

Corporate structure

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The story

The Cornelsen Verlag was founded in Berlin in 1946 by Franz Cornelsen and his wife Hildegard, the author of the English textbook Peter Pim and Billy Ball. Since the 1970s, it has secured its market position primarily by taking over competitors (Hirschgraben, W. Girardet, Schwann-Bagel, Kamp and most recently Oldenbourg). After the German reunification, in the spring of 1991, Cornelsen also took over the East German publisher Volk und Wissen Verlag, which was founded in Berlin and Leipzig in 1945 and in which almost all textbooks used in the former German Democratic Republic were published. In 2011, Cornelsen Verlag was merged with other leading textbook publishers to form Cornelsen Schulverlage GmbH. The publishing program includes 23,000 titles.

The company belongs to Franz Cornelsen Bildungsholding GmbH & Co. KG.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cornelsen Verlag, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • Duden

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

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Acquisitions

  1. 1991Acquired Volk und Wissen Verlag1

Employees over time

  • 20241,3001

Timeline

  1. 1946Founded Founded1

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