Handelsblatt German Newspaper was established in 1946.Its editor-in-chief (since January 2013) is Hans-Jürgen Jakobs.Its publisher, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, also publishes the weekly business magazine Wirtschaftswoche of which the editor-in-chief is Roland Tichy.

Since September 2005 Handelsblatt has been offering an online lexicon called WirtschaftsWiki which features definitions of terms used in economics and politics. The database can be modified by any registered user.

In September 2006 Handelsblatt ranked all economists working in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The paper is published in compact format.

In 2009, Dieter von Holtzbrinck bought Der Tagesspiegel, Handelsblatt and “WirtschaftsWoche” from the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

Handelsblatt had a circulation of 121,334 daily copies in the first six months of 2014.