C. H. Beck

{{Short description|German publisher}}

{{for|the construction company|The Beck Group}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

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| founded = 9 September 1763

| founder = Carl Gottlob Beck

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| country = Germany

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| publications = Books, journals

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| imprints = Nomos

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Verlag C. H. BECK oHG, established in 1763 by Carl Gottlob Beck, is one of Germany's oldest publishing houses.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=About us |url=https://rsw.beck.de/en/publishers |access-date=2023-06-15 |website= |language=}} Historically, the company's headquarters were in Nördlingen. The initials of the founder's son and successor, Carl Heinrich Beck, survive in the company's current name.

It operates in two main divisions: Legal – Tax – Business (professional publishing) and Literature – Nonfiction – Science (trade publishing).{{Cite web |title=Verlag C.H.Beck on JSTOR |url=https://www.jstor.org/publisher/vchb |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=www.jstor.org}} It has an annual production of up to 1,500 titles including many electronic publications, about 70 professional journals and more than 9,000 titles in print.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=About us |url=https://www.beck-elibrary.de/about?l=en |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=www.beck-elibrary.de |language=}} Its headquarters are in Munich, with a branch office in Frankfurt. Six hundred and fifty employees work in the Munich headquarters. The 120 scientific editors combined work at the Munich and Frankfurt offices, supporting over 14,000 authors. The Frankfurt office houses the editorial departments of most of C.H. Beck's

publications in his own field and the editorial departments in the same department as his own publications

law journals."[https://rsw.beck.de/en/publishers About Publishers C.H.Beck Munich]." Retrieved on 22 June 2023. Since 1999 the Nomos publishing house has belonged to the C.H. Beck group,{{Cite web|title=Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH on JSTOR|url=https://www.jstor.org/publisher/nomos|access-date=2021-11-01|website=www.jstor.org}} which also has subsidiaries in Switzerland,{{Cite web |title=About Publishers C.H.Beck Munich |url=https://rsw.beck.de/en/publishers |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=RSW |language=en}} Poland,{{Cite web |title=C.H.Beck {{!}} Prawnicze publikacje ze wszystkich dziedzin prawa. |url=https://www.beck.pl/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |language=pl-PL}} the Czech Republic{{Cite web |title=Nakladatelství C.H. Beck {{!}} eshop C. H. Beck |url=https://www.beck.cz/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=www.beck.cz |language=cs}} and Romania.{{Cite web |title=Editura C.H. Beck |url=https://www.beck.ro/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |language=ro-RO}} As a group of publishing houses, in turnover C.H.Beck ranks among the 10 largest groups in Germany and the 50 largest worldwide.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-26 |title=Das sind die größten Buchkonzerne der Welt |url=https://www.buchreport.de/news/das-sind-die-groessten-buchkonzerne-der-welt/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=buchreport |language=de-DE}}