Bibliographisches Institut
The buildings of the company were completely destroyed by the bombing raids on Leipzig 1943/44; the company itself expropriated by the communist regime in 1946 and turned into a "Volkseigener Betrieb". The shareholders moved the concern to Mannheim in Western-Germany in 1953 (Bibliographisches Institut AG). Titles like "Meyers (Enzyklopädisches) Lexikon", "Der Grosse Duden", "Schlag Nach!" and "Meyers Grosser Weltatlas" appeared again. In Leipzig remained the VEB Bibliographisches Institut, operating in the same field, publishing "Meyers Neues Lexikon", "Duden" etc.
In 1984 Bibliographisches Institut AG amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, F.A. Brockhaus of Wiesbaden to Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, having their seat in Mannheim. After the German reunion the company regained its former properties in Leipzig in 1991.
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