Carl Jödicke

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Carl Jödicke (born July 13, 1894 in Magdeburg as Karl Friedrich Alfred Jödicke ; † September 11, 1978 in Konstanz ) was a German publishing manager at Ullstein Verlag and, after its Aryanization in 1938, at Deutsche Verlag . In 1947 he became managing director of the Hanover publishing company and from 1948 of the Südkurier publishing group in Konstanz. Jödicke played a key role in the founding of the two magazines Der Stern 1938 and Stern 1948.

Life

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school in 1913 at the grammar school in Helmstedt , Jödicke took part in the First World War on the Western Front , where he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd grades. He then completed an academic training as a business graduate at the Handelshochschule Berlin and studied at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate. After temporarily working in wholesale, Jödicke joined Ullstein Verlag in 1926 and became the representative of the director of the newspaper publisher there, Richard A. Müller . He was responsible for the publisher's newspaper propaganda, especially advertising for the publisher's daily newspapers, such as the daily Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung and the weekly Die Grüne Post .

time of the nationalsocialism

At the end of 1933, Jödicke became the authorized signatory and successor to Richard A. Müller, who left the company. In May 1934, when the Ullstein family still controlled the company's supervisory board, he was appointed to the board of directors. When the family had to part with their company at the end of June 1934 because it was “ Aryanized ”, Jödicke took over the magazine department. According to Jödicke's post-war testimony, as a shop steward of the Ullstein family, he was given long-term contracts in order to secure a return for the family after the hoped-for quick end of the Nazi regime. However, Jödicke's statements were not confirmed by the family. Jödicke was now responsible for magazines with a circulation of millions, with Berliner Illustrirten (BIZ) as the flagship. He also made the personnel decisions for them. In 1937, when the company was renamed Deutscher Verlag and incorporated into the central publishing house of the NSDAP , Jödicke joined the NSDAP (membership no. 4.155.612), of which he was a member until the end of the war. In addition, he belonged to various branches of the SA from 1935 to 1939 .

In August 1939 Jödicke founded the new weekly magazine Der Stern , which in 1939 had a circulation of 750,000 copies and made the picture editor and head of the service of the Berliner Illustrierte Kurt Zentner editor-in-chief of Stern . Despite its commercial success, the magazine was replaced at the end of 1939 by pressure from Nazi press chief Max Amann and replaced by the soldier magazine Erika .

In addition to Hundreds, Jödicke also suffered the displeasure of Amman and the manager of the Max Wießner publishing house . On August 28, 1939, Jödicke, who had often taken part in reservist exercises in previous years, was drafted into military service after the publisher Wießner had made no efforts to claim that he was "indispensable". As a captain of the reserve, Jödicke first became the leader of an intelligence company and took part in the attack on Poland and the campaign in the west . In the meantime, he was financially well off, as his salaries as director, including royalties and bonuses, continued to be paid to him. After returning to the publishing house for 16 months, he spent the last years of the war as an “office officer” at the Deputy General Command III in Berlin.

post war period

At the end of the war, Jödicke became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released at the end of 1945. In February 1946 he was assigned by the employment office of the Uelzen company Nordwestdeutscher Großvertrieb Kindel & Co, where he worked as a commercial clerk in sales. He had previously learned from Gustav Willner , who had been appointed as trustee for the liquidation of the German publishing house in the summer of 1945, that an activity as an editor, publishing director or even license holder was only possible with the classification as "exonerated". Willner had advised Jödicke, instead of aiming for a journalistic project in Berlin, to make an attempt at the British headquarters in Hanover, as a less strict denazification practice was to be expected here . In his first trial at the Uelzen Chamber at the end of 1946, despite a dozen so-called Persilscheine , Jödicke was not yet classified as completely exonerated and only received the desired classification in Category V as "unencumbered" in November 1948 in the second instance by the Hanover Chamber. But despite the outstanding result of his second case, he was able to become the publishing director and authorized signatory of Hannoversche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH in September 1947 . The responsible “German Personal Officer of the military government of Lower Saxony” had provisionally approved his activity as publishing director.

Henri Nannen was a licensee of the Hannoversche Abendpost in the same publishing house . When Nannen was looking for ways to found a new magazine, Jödicke suggested that he do so via the detour as a licensee of the youth magazine Zig-Zack and then, in a second step, enforce the change to a general magazine with a new title against the Allied approval authorities . In addition, he provided him with expert opinions on trademark law, which should protect Nannen from claims for damages by the Ullstein family, whereby it was considered beneficial for Nannen that the star from 1938 had not been registered as a trademark.

Jödicke left the Hannoversche Verlagsgesellschaft in 1948 . He was now the managing director of the Südkurier publishing group in Constance. He held this position until his retirement in 1961. In 1955 he also became a partner there.

Fonts

  • When advertising was still called propaganda . In: W. Joachim Freyburg / Hans Wallenberg (ed.): Hundred Years of Ullstein 1877–1977 . Volume 3. Ullstein, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-550-07373-9 , pp. 119-150.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of the StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 1845/1894
  2. ↑ Death register StA Konstanz, No. 531/1978
  3. ^ W. Joachim Freyburg / Hans Wallenberg (eds.): Hundred Years of Ullstein 1877–1977 . Volume 3. Ullstein, Berlin 1977, p. 121ff. (= Self-illustration by Jödicke) u. P. 571 (= author information from the editors on Jödicke); Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, p. 207.
  4. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , pp. 206–209.
  5. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , pp. 206–212 u. P. 518.
  6. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , p. 214f.
  7. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , p. 239ff.
  8. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , p. 254.
  9. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , p. 242.
  10. ↑ Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German illustrated magazines and their common history before and after 1945 , pp. 242–245 u. P. 254; Tolsdorff: The brown roots of the "star" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 19, 2013.
  11. ^ W. Joachim Freyburg / Hans Wallenberg (eds.): Hundred Years of Ullstein 1877–1977 . Volume 3. Ullstein, Berlin 1977, p. 571.
  12. ↑ Patrick Eich: Decades under the microscope. Empirical study on the development and change in the main sport in the Südkurier from 1945 to 2002 , dissertation University of Konstanz 2005, p. 103 PDF
personal data
SURNAME Jödicke, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jödicke, Karl Friedrich Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publishing manager and authorized signatory
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1978
Place of death Constancy