August Neven DuMont (publisher, 1887)
August Philipp Christian Neven DuMont (born March 5, 1887 in Cologne ; † October 11, 1965 there ) was a German publisher and entrepreneur.
biography
The son of the privy councilor Josef Neven DuMont graduated from high school Kreuzgasse in Cologne and passed his legal traineeship in 1910 after visiting the universities of Grenoble , Oxford , Munich and Bonn . From 1915 DuMont was co-owner of the M. DuMont Schauberg company in Cologne. In the First World War he was u. a. awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the war, he received the Mackensen Cross of Honor 1st Class donated by the German Cavalry Ring .
After the First World War, DuMont was active in various professional bodies (German book printers and newspaper publishers association). Among other things, he was chairman of the pension fund, invalidity and widow's fund and emergency aid of the publishing families and member of the board of the Zentral-Dombau-Verein and the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum .
In 1953 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz).
literature
- August Neven DuMont , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1965 from October 25, 1965, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XII. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1955, p. 850.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neven DuMont, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neven DuMont, August Philipp Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1965 |
| Place of death | Cologne |