Artur Lauinger
Artur Lauinger (born August 23, 1879 in Augsburg , † October 15, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German business journalist .
Career
Lauinger was born the son of the Jewish businessman Heinrich Lauinger. After graduating from high school in Karlsruhe, he studied in Tübingen and Munich . From 1902 he wrote as a trade editor for the Berliner Tageblatt . In October 1907 he moved to the economic department of the Frankfurter Zeitung , where he held a managerial position for over 30 years. After discovering mismanagement at Frankfurter Allgemeine Versicherungs AG (FAVAG), he was appointed to the advisory board of the Reich Insurance Supervisory Office in 1927. He was also first chairman of the Frankfurt Press Association. After the National Socialists came to power , he was banned from working and interned in Buchenwald concentration camp in November 1938 . In 1939 he emigrated to England, where he wrote as a freelancer for British and Swiss papers.
After the end of the Second World War he returned to Frankfurt in 1946 and worked for the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Neue Presse . In 1954 he gave a guest lecture at the University of Frankfurt .
Honors
- 1946: Honorary Chairman of the Hessian Association of Journalists
- 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main
literature
- Paul Arnsberg : The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution: Vol. 3: Biographical lexicon of the Jews in the fields of science, culture, education, public relations in Frankfurt am Main. Roether, Darmstadt 1983
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
- Bettina Leder: Lauingers. A family story from Germany. Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-080-3 (= Jewish Memoirs , Volume 26; about Artur Lauringer and his son Wolfgang).
Web links
- Literature by and about Artur Lauinger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lauinger, Artur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1961 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |