Adolf Theobald

Adolf Theobald (born March 14, 1930 in Koblenz ; † September 1, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , publishing manager , media consultant and publicist . He justified u. a. the magazines Capital , twen and natur .

Life

Theobald studied business administration ( business administration graduate ) at the University of Cologne and volunteered at Rheinischer Merkur in 1953 . He then worked for two years as editor of the magazine of the Junge Union Deutschlands (JU) The Decision .

In 1956, together with Stephan Wolf, he was the founding editor of the student magazine Perspektiven in Cologne , which was to establish itself as an alternative to the left student press. In 1957 he founded the self-published Illustrierte Student im Bild (with a circulation of 70,000 copies, soon to be the largest student magazine in Germany at the time) and in 1959, together with Stephan Wolf and Willy Fleckhaus , a graphic artist, the subsequent youth magazine twen . In 1960 they both sold their shares to the Munich publisher Th. Martens & Co. The sheet later served as a benchmark for Tempo and Neon .

From 1962 to 1971 he was the founding editor of the business magazine Capital in Hamburg. In 1972 he became a conceptionist and member of the management team at the publishing house Gruner + Jahr . In 1977 he was appointed to the management of the Swiss media company Ringier in Zurich as head of press coordination. He built up the environmental magazine natur in Munich and was editor-in-chief of the GEO reportage magazine in Hamburg from 1985 to 1987 . From 1987 to 1991 he was managing director of the Spiegel publishing house .

In addition, he worked as a consultant to the Poppen & Ortmann and Hodeige-Rombach publishing families (the families own the Badische Pressehaus with the main product Badische Zeitung ). Most recently he lived as a freelance journalist and media consultant in Munich . He published u. a. in the time , in the world , in the Badische Zeitung , in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in the Cicero , in the Tagesspiegel and in the Spiegel .

Theobald was married. His son Alexander (* 1964) works on the management level of the Swiss media group Ringier.

Award

• 2013: "Business Journalist of the Year" for his life's work ( business journalist and medium magazine )

Fonts (selection)

• The makers. A typology of bosses . Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-570-02740-6 .
• The organic national product. Quality of life as national income (= texts + theses . Volume 185). Edition Interfrom, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7201-5185-9 .

literature

• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-2042-5 , p. 1339.

Obituaries:

• Capital editorial team: Obituary for Capital founder Theobald . on: Capital .de, September 3, 2014. (Excerpt from "40 Years of Capital" (Capital 13/2002) by Henning Franke and Manfred Kohnke)
• Christian Hodeige: “It just has to be of interest” - On the death of the journalist and journalist Adolf Theobald (obituary). In: Badische Zeitung , September 3, 2014, p. 13.
• Hans Leyendecker : Guardian and Champion. The magazine inventor Adolf Theobald is dead (obituary). In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 3, 2014, p. 27.
• Kai-Hinrich Renner: Adolf Theobald. A great magazine man is dead (obituary). In: Handelsblatt , No. 169, September 3, 2014, p. 47.

Web links

• Search for "Adolf Theobald" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Koetzle (Ed.): Twen. Revision of a legend . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7814-0392-0 , p. 321.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Detlef Siegfried : Time is on my side. Consumption and politics in the West German youth culture of the 1960s (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history , Volume 41). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0073-6 , p. 283.
3. ↑ Twen. Six about sex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1961, pp. 59-60 ( online ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Detlef Siegfried : Time is on my side. Consumption and politics in the West German youth culture of the 1960s (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history , Volume 41). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0073-6 , p. 284.
5. ↑ Michael Koetzle (Ed.): Twen. Revision of a legend . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7814-0392-0 , p. 35.
6. ^ Capital editors: Obituary for Capital founder Theobald . on: Capital .de, September 3, 2014. (Excerpt from "40 Years of Capital" (Capital 13/2002) by Henning Franke and Manfred Kohnke)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Meier, Thomas Häussler: Between mass, market and power. The changing media company Ringier 1833–2008 . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0340-0952-2 , p. 617.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-2042-5 , p. 1339.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Hodeige: “It just has to be of interest” - On the death of the journalist and journalist Adolf Theobald (obituary). In: Badische Zeitung , September 3, 2014, p. 13.
10. ↑ "Alexander Theobald, are you a deserter?" (Interview). persoenlich.com (operator: Personal-Verlag), December 19, 2003.
11. ↑ Valora Holding AG (Ed.): Valora Financial Report 2011 . Muttenz 2012, p. 127 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).  
12. ↑ AWP Finanznachrichten : Valora Services boss Alexander Theobald changes to Ringier . nzz.ch, July 2, 2014.
13. ↑ Words of thanks from Adolf Theobald on the occasion of the award of the “Business Journalist of the Year” award . newsroom.de (operator: Verlag Johann Oberauer), September 2, 2014.