The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) is one of the world's oldest and most influential chemistry societies. Formed in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main as the successor to the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (founded 1867 with August Wilhelm von Hofmann as its first president), the GDCh today has around 30,000 members and owns or co-owns some of the most cited journals in chemistry.

Unlike large commercial houses, the GDCh does not run its own publishing operation. Its journals are published by Wiley-VCH in Weinheim and hosted on Wiley Online Library. The portfolio has two parts: Angewandte Chemie, the society's wholly owned flagship, and the Chemistry Europe family (formerly ChemPubSoc Europe, renamed in 2020) - around 17 titles co-owned by 16 European chemical societies, of which the GDCh is the largest. This guide explains how to pick the right journal, what open access will cost, how peer review works, and how to submit.

• Angewandte Chemie - wholly owned by the GDCh, published weekly by Wiley-VCH. It appears in two editions with identical scientific content: the original German edition and the English-language International Edition (since 1962), each with its own volume and page numbering. It publishes communications, research articles, reviews, and minireviews across all of chemistry.
• Chemistry Europe journals (~17 titles) - co-owned with 15 other European chemical societies representing over 75,000 chemists. The family includes Chemistry - A European Journal, the two European Journals (Organic/Inorganic Chemistry), the Chem*Chem specialty titles, ChemistryOpen, ChemistrySelect, and Batteries & Supercaps. Society ownership means surpluses flow back into the chemistry community rather than to shareholders.
• Nachrichten aus der Chemie - the GDCh membership magazine (German-language news and careers content, not a research venue).

All GDCh journals follow Wiley's open-access infrastructure, so your options are:

Germany's Projekt DEAL agreement with Wiley (renewed November 2023 for 2024-2028, with tiered per-article Publish-and-Read fees of roughly EUR 2,200-3,150) covers corresponding authors at some 500 German institutions - so most Germany-based authors can publish OA in GDCh journals at no direct cost. Similar Wiley agreements exist in many other countries; check the ESAC registry or your library. APCs are set per journal on Wiley's price list and revised annually - always confirm on the journal's own fees page before submitting. Wiley applies automatic waivers and discounts for authors in Research4Life countries.

Note that the Chemistry Europe portfolio has been moving steadily toward open access; individual titles have flipped or announced flips, so check each journal's current model on its Wiley Online Library page.

• Model: single-anonymized review is the default across Angewandte Chemie and the Chemistry Europe titles.
• Selectivity: Angewandte Chemie is among the most selective venues in chemistry; Chemistry - A European Journal and the specialty titles are selective but broader; ChemistrySelect and ChemistryOpen use soundness-focused criteria.
• Transfers: rejected manuscripts can usually be transferred with reviews to another Chemistry Europe title, which shortens the second round considerably.
• Turnaround: varies by journal; Angewandte communications run on a fast editorial track. Check the journal page for current average times.

1. Pick the journal using the decision table above, and read the title-specific author guidelines on Wiley Online Library.
2. Prepare the manuscript. GDCh journals use the Angewandte-style numbered (superscript) citation format; SciSpace templates for GDCh titles handle the formatting automatically.
3. Submit through the journal's Wiley submission portal - depending on the title this is ScholarOne Manuscripts or Wiley's newer Research Exchange platform (journals have been migrating since 2023; the journal homepage links to the right system).
4. Declare open access and funding during submission; DEAL and other agreement eligibility is picked up from the corresponding author's affiliation.
5. After acceptance, license signing and any APC payment run through Wiley Author Services.

The GDCh journals operate under Wiley's and the society's editorial-ethics frameworks and follow COPE guidance on misconduct, corrections, and retractions. The GDCh itself maintains a code of conduct for its members, and as a non-profit society publisher it carries none of the predatory-publishing risk flags - Angewandte Chemie has been a benchmark chemistry venue for over a century. Data-availability statements follow the per-journal Wiley policy.