Carl Esser (publisher)

Esser as director with his authorized signatory (1913)

Setting machines in 1913

Carl Esser (born September 4, 1874 in Düsseldorf ; died November 8, 1939 in Stuttgart ) was a German newspaper publisher.

Life

Carl Esser was a son of the bookseller Adolf Esser and Berta Küpper. Esser was married to Betty Jung and they had two children. He attended a humanistic high school and completed an apprenticeship as a book printer and a commercial apprenticeship in a newspaper publisher. In 1909 he became director of the Württemberger Zeitung, which merged with the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt in 1910 . He became general director and managing partner of the Tagblatt and also managed the affiliated book publisher and printing company. In 1913 the company had around 600 employees, including 200 permanent employees and 400 newspaper deliverers and newspaper sellers. In 1924 Esser commissioned the architect Ernst Otto Oßwald to build a newspaper house in downtown Stuttgart, and the Tagblatt tower was moved into in 1927. After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, Esser was dismissed for political reasons. The newspaper came into the possession of the NSDAP in 1935.

Fonts

• with Paul Wittko: The new Stuttgart court theater . Stuttgart, 1912
• Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt. Reflections on the nature of a modern daily newspaper; Insight into a large newspaper and book printing company . Stuttgart: Neues Tagblatt, 1913
• Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt. Reflections on the nature of a modern daily newspaper; Insight into a large newspaper and book printing company; Revised for the 80th anniversary at the end of 1923 , Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt 1923.

literature

• Esser, Carl, Eduard, Hubert in: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , 1930, pp. 403f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Esser in the WorldCat bibliographic database