Holtzbrinck Publishing Group: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 04:12 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue reasons. The ownership walk stops here on evidence: GLEIF's LEI record for 529900F916IVP0TJZK88 files a reporting exception for both the direct and the ultimate accounting consolidation parent with reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON, so Identity now carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent and ownership_source: ^gleifdp, with the evidence in About; Springer Nature's 2025 group management report corroborates it, naming only the general partner and two natural persons (Dr Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Christiane Schoeller) above the KG in its voting-rights notification, and the group's own about page calls itself family-held. The About claim that the group 'sits under the family holding company Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG' was wrong and is gone: the imprint publishes holtzbrinck.com in that name at Gaensheidestrasse 26 with Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH (Stuttgart HRB 2306) as general partner, and Wikipedia's own opening sentence gives the KG as the German name of Holtzbrinck, so About now says so and flags the contrary Wikipedia infobox field. Identity gains legal_name Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, registered_address Gaensheidestrasse 26, 70184 Stuttgart, register_ids DE-HRA:Stuttgart 11722, VAT:DE147514638 and LEI:529900F916IVP0TJZK88, and wikidata Q127005 (that item carries the same LEI, so it is this legal entity). founded moves from 1948 to 1989-06, the entity creation date GLEIF validates against HRA 11722, with 1948 kept in About as the year Georg von Holtzbrinck re-established the business; website drops the www host, which answers with a self-signed certificate. Added an Establishments office row for the Stuttgart registered office, a legal alias for the KG name, a summary and disambiguation that lead with the legal name, the 53 per cent Springer Nature stake held through GvH 33, and the group's own headline figures beside Wikipedia's 2024 accounts. New References rows: imprint, hbabout, hbgroup, gleifhb, gleifdp, gleifup, snar25 (wikihb and wikisn kept). Logo added from Commons (File:Holtzbrinck-logo.png, CC BY 4.0), the file the Wikipedia infobox uses. No relation row was added upward, and no page was created: the general partner holds no capital share and no source puts a company above the KG. Nothing left unsettled.. Current is v3.

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# Holtzbrinck Publishing Group <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
disambiguation: Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, the family-held Stuttgart group above Springer Nature and Macmillan
summary: Family-held Stuttgart publishing group, registered as Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, majority owner of Springer Nature and owner of Macmillan.
legal_name: Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^gleifdp
registered_address: Gänsheidestraße 26, 70184 Stuttgart, Germany
wikidata: Q127005
country: DE
website: https://holtzbrinck.com/
register_ids: DE-HRA:Stuttgart 11722, VAT:DE147514638, LEI:529900F916IVP0TJZK88
founded: 1989-06
<!--/identity-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                             | country | source   | note                                                          |
| ---- | ------ | ----------------------------------- | ------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | Gänsheidestraße 26, 70184 Stuttgart | DE      | ^imprint | The registered office of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                | type   | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck | search | de     |      |       |
| Holtzbrinck                         | search |        |      |       |
| Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG | legal  | de     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref     | url                                                                                               | title                                                                                       | accessed   | publisher       | kind         | published  | record_id            | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| imprint | https://holtzbrinck.com/de/impressum                                                              | Holtzbrinck: Impressum                                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Holtzbrinck     | manufacturer |            |                      |         |              |             |          |
| hbabout | https://holtzbrinck.com/en/about                                                                  | Holtzbrinck: About                                                                          | 2026-09-21 | Holtzbrinck     | manufacturer |            |                      |         |              |             |          |
| hbgroup | https://holtzbrinck.com/en/our-group                                                              | Holtzbrinck: Our group                                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Holtzbrinck     | manufacturer |            |                      |         |              |             |          |
| gleifhb | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900F916IVP0TJZK88                                     | GLEIF LEI record 529900F916IVP0TJZK88: Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG                  | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF           | registry     |            | 529900F916IVP0TJZK88 |         |              |             |          |
| gleifdp | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900F916IVP0TJZK88/direct-parent-reporting-exception   | GLEIF: direct parent reporting exception for 529900F916IVP0TJZK88, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON   | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF           | registry     |            | 529900F916IVP0TJZK88 |         |              |             |          |
| gleifup | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900F916IVP0TJZK88/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: ultimate parent reporting exception for 529900F916IVP0TJZK88, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF           | registry     |            | 529900F916IVP0TJZK88 |         |              |             |          |
| snar25  | https://annualreport.springernature.com/2025/files/sn-ar-25-combined-group-management-report.pdf  | Springer Nature Annual Report 2025: combined group management report                        | 2026-09-21 | Springer Nature | manufacturer | 2026-03-31 |                      |         |              |             |          |
| wikihb  | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtzbrinck_Publishing_Group                                        | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group                                                                | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia       | publication  |            |                      |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| wikisn  | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature                                                     | Springer Nature                                                                             | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia       | publication  |            |                      |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is the trading name of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, the family-held publishing group registered in Stuttgart at Gänsheidestraße 26 under HRA 11722, with Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Stuttgart HRB 2306, as its general partner and Stefan von Holtzbrinck as chairman of its management.[^imprint] Georg von Holtzbrinck re-established the business in 1948 as a German book club,[^wikihb] and the group works today in four areas: science, through Springer Nature and Digital Science; consumer books, through Macmillan Publishers, Pan Macmillan and the German houses S. Fischer, Rowohlt and Kiepenheuer & Witsch; education, through Macmillan Learning; and news media, through the DIE ZEIT publishing group.[^hbgroup]

No company stands above it. GLEIF's record for the partnership declares neither a direct nor an ultimate accounting consolidation parent, giving NO_KNOWN_PERSON as the reason in both reporting exceptions,[^gleifdp][^gleifup] and the voting-rights notification in Springer Nature's 2025 group management report places only the general partner and two natural persons, Dr Stefan von Holtzbrinck and Christiane Schoeller, in the chain above the KG.[^snar25] The group describes itself as family-held.[^hbabout] The English Wikipedia infobox lists Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG as a parent above Holtzbrinck, while the same article's opening sentence gives that name as the German name of Holtzbrinck itself;[^wikihb] the imprint settles it, since holtzbrinck.com is published in that name at the group's own address.[^imprint] GLEIF dates the partnership to June 1989 and validates it against Stuttgart HRA 11722, so 1948 is the year of the business rather than of this legal entity.[^gleifhb]

The group's own about page gives more than 14,000 people in over 120 countries and revenue above €3.8 billion.[^hbabout] Wikipedia reports sales of €1.99 billion for 2024, earnings before taxes of €293 million and 14,000 employees, with 29 per cent of sales in Germany and 53 per cent in North America.[^wikihb] Holtzbrinck brought its Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education into the merger with Springer Science+Business Media that closed in May 2015 and created Springer Nature, taking the majority 53 per cent share to BC Partners' 47 per cent.[^wikisn] It holds that stake through GvH Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft XXXIII mbH, its wholly owned Stuttgart subsidiary, which pools its votes with the BC Partners vehicle in Springer Nature's general partner.[^snar25]
<!--/about-->