Verlag Technik
(abbr. VT, formerly , which temporarily operated as ) based in Berlin today is the remaining part of its incorporation into the .

History 
The  in Berlin was a specialist book and specialist journal publisher in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). It was founded on 1 July 1946 and was a Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) (English, "publicly owned enterprise"). Besides the  it was one of the most important publishers of specialist books in the field of technology and natural sciences in the GDR up to and including the years immediately after the  in the reunified Germany, after which the number of new publications by Verlag Technik decreased significantly. 

During its East German years it also published many trade journals for various technical fields, e.g.  (Radio television electronics),  (MP microprocessor technology),  (New technology in the office),  (Agricultural engineering),  (KFT) or  (Technology - technical-scientific journal for basic and cross-sectional questions) (1950–1953).

During the early years of the publishing house, the physicist and philosopher  managed the publishing house from 1950 to 1955. A campaign for "pest work in the field of ideology" was initiated against him during this time. Rehabilitated in 1955, he was appointed full professor for dialectical materialism at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

In the course of the German reunification,  was converted into a GmbH on 1 July 1990, of which the  was a 100% shareholder. In September 1991, the Munich publisher  bought the , a publishing house for law and economics (formerly a state publishing house), the publisher , the  (a publishing house for building and construction) as well as . Only 31 of the one-hundred employees of  were taken over.

Initially,  retained its legal form as a GmbH and became a subsidiary of  in Berlin, but it lost its independent, formal legal existence on 1 January 1999 when it was integrated into . This also ended the membership of  in the  (German Book Trade Association). The book trade ID number used up to that point was transferred to .

Publishing program 
A small number of popular books and magazines, such as  or  are still published up to today. However, the former journal  (MSR) was integrated into the journals  and  of the , Munich.

Book series
The following series were published in the firm's East German period:
 Automatisierungstechnik
 Lehrbücher für die Berufsausbildung
 Lehrbücher für die Berufsbildung
 Schriftenreihe des Verlages Technik

References

External links 
 Website of Verlag Technik in the huss shop of the Huss-Medien GmbH

Volkseigene Betriebe
Publishing companies of Germany
Book publishing companies of Germany
Publishing companies established in 1946