History
From the 1860s it was largely run by members the Hinrichsen family, who were Jewish. The company was confiscated by the Nazis and administered by the "Trustee of Jewish Property". Henri Hinrichsen and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen did not survive the Holocaust. After the end of the war the company received a license from the Soviet military authority to continue publishing but in 1948 the firm was formally confiscated by the East German authorities and turned into a state owned and managed enterprise.
Walter Hinrichsen, a surviving member of the family, founded C.F. Peters Corporation in New York in 1948, initially reprinting the main works in Edition Peters, then contemporary American composers. Simultaneously Max Hinrichsen was republishing Edition Peters in London. A famous case in the English High Court confirmed the inheritance of Edition Peters by the surviving Hinrichsen heirs and C.F. Peters Corporation, New York, remains one of the most notable publishing houses in the US.
Following reunification the East German company was merged with C.F. Peters of Frankfurt, leaving only a small office in Leipzig.
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