August Madsack

August Madsack (born December 16, 1858 in Hirschfeld, district of Preussisch Holland , East Prussia , † February 5, 1933 in Hanover ) was a German journalist , publicist and newspaper publisher .

Life

Madsack was the son of the farmer Karl Friedrich Madsack and his wife Luise Lehwald. After his apprenticeship he worked from 1875 to 1891 for various German-language newspapers in Saint Petersburg , Reval and Riga . In 1892 he came to Hanover and began building his own newspaper, the “ Hannoversche Anzeiger ”, with the first edition on March 1, 1893 and a circulation of 48,000 copies. The advertisement had six editorial pages and two advertising pages and cost 40 pfennigs a month. By the First World War he was able to increase the circulation up to 125,000 copies and even at times expand the volume to up to 60 pages.

Family grave in the Stöcken cemetery

Later other publishing objects were added, including the country family paper Land und Garten . In 1927 and 1928 he had the Anzeiger high-rise , one of the early high-rise buildings in Germany, built on the Goseriede on Steintorplatz in Hanover according to plans by the architect Fritz Höger with an adjacent printing shop .

August Madsack was committed to Hanover. He organized charity events, concerts and theater events, boxing matches and brought the first zeppelin to Hanover in 1912 with the “Viktoria Luise” .

In 1933 the artist Adh Hedblom created a bust of the newspaper publisher, which is now in the faithfully reconstructed counter hall of the Anzeiger high-rise.

August Madsack is the father of Georg, Paul and Erich . After August Madsack's death, his youngest son, Erich, continued the company and founded the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1949 , creating the basis for the Madsack media group , which is now the largest media group in Lower Saxony .

literature

Rudolf Lange: Madsack, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 632 f. ( Digitized version ).
Jochen Mangelsen: August Madsack (1856–1933). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 258-264.
Jens Flemming , Nadine Freund: The Madsacks and the "Hannoversche Anzeiger": a middle-class city newspaper between the German Empire and National Socialism, 1893-1945 . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019 ISBN 978-3-8353-3586-8

Web links

Commons : August Madsack - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Publishing company Madsack

Individual evidence

^ Madsack media group : History of the Madsack media group
^ Madsack media group : 90 years of the Anzeiger high-rise
^ Madsack media group : August Madsack - portrait of a founder
↑ Peter Ruthenberg : Rarely painted. The Anzeiger-Hochhaus and the artists. In: Peter Ruthenberg (Ed.): Anzeiger. How Fritz Höger's Anzeiger high-rise became the focus of the new art and media center at Hanover's Goseriede. Madsack, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-7860-0520-6 , p. 103.

personal data
SURNAME	Madsack, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, publicist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hirschfeld near Elbing , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 1933
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Madsack media group : History of the Madsack media group

[2] Madsack media group : 90 years of the Anzeiger high-rise

[3] Madsack media group : August Madsack - portrait of a founder

[4] Peter Ruthenberg : Rarely painted. The Anzeiger-Hochhaus and the artists. In: Peter Ruthenberg (Ed.): Anzeiger. How Fritz Höger's Anzeiger high-rise became the focus of the new art and media center at Hanover's Goseriede. Madsack, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-7860-0520-6 , p. 103.