The German Publishers and Booksellers Association is a registered association based in Frankfurt am Main and represents the interests of around 6,000 publishers, bookshops, second-hand bookshops, intermediate bookshops and publishing representatives. It organizes the Frankfurt Book Fair, awards the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the German Book Prize and maintains the Schools of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt-Seckbach. It goes back to the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, which was founded in Leipzig in 1825.

When the Americans took unencumbered publishers from Leipzig to the West in 1945, they planned to rebuild a branch of the Börsenverein in Wiesbaden and appointed Wilhelm Klemm as director and Georg Kurt Schauer as managing director. First the Tagblatt-Haus and then the Pariser Hof served as the Wiesbaden office. On July 22, 1945, a flyer was published in which the branch announced its opening and the plans for the Börsenblatt to German booksellers. This information reached its addressees, as the branch was actively visited, even by those seeking advice from further afield.

However, from October onwards, the American military government no longer permitted any Germany-wide organizations, as centralism was to be prevented. As a result, the branch office had to be dissolved and booksellers and publishers were initially only able to found regional associations, which happened in Wiesbaden in December 1945 for Hesse. However, the Börsenblatt was able to appear nationwide.

In the spring of 1946, the editorial office of the Börsenblatt and the Hessian regional association were relocated to Frankfurt - this decision against Wiesbaden was also linked to the expectation that Frankfurt would become the capital of West Germany. The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels was founded in Frankfurt in 1948 as a merger of the regional associations. In 1955, this "association of associations" became an association with personal membership, and since 1972 with corporate membership. In 1991, the stock exchange associations in Frankfurt and Leipzig merged.

Since January 1, 2003, the state associations have formed a single association together with the federal association in Frankfurt. This association reform meant that the German Publishers and Booksellers Association is once again represented in Wiesbaden: the office of the Hessian Publishers and Booksellers Association, which had been relocated from Frankfurt to the Villa Clementine in Wiesbaden in 2000, became the offiHessian Publishers and Booksellers Association, which had been relocated from Frankfurt to the Villa Clementine in Wiesbaden in 2000, became the office of the Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland regional associations of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, which were merged into a joint regional association in 2012.