The LHG is edited by three members of the Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG):
- Stephan Müller, Professor of Older German Language and Literature at the University of Vienna
- Claudia Wich-Reif, Professor of the History of the German Language and Linguistic Variation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Arne Ziegler, Professor of German Language with special emphasis on Historical Linguistics and Variety Linguistics at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz
Co-founder and co-editor from 2016-2019 was Jörg Riecke, Professor of German Linguistics with a special focus on language history at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (+2019)