Edgar Bissinger

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Edgar Bissinger (born May 25, 1912 in Erfurt , Province of Saxony , † December 14, 1987 in Munich ) was a German journalist and publisher .

Life

Edgar Bissinger was the son of the Erfurt photographer Eduard Bissinger and his wife Toni nee Hölling. After attending the Reform Realgymnasium, which he graduated from high school, Edgar Bissinger studied economics in Innsbruck . He then completed an editorial training course in Erfurt . On May 1, 1931, Edgar Bissinger joined the NSDAP (membership number 525.723) and in 1932 became Reich Press Chief of the Hitler Youth . In July of the same year he was admitted to Main Department IV Economics of the Brown House . Until March 1933, Edgar Bissinger worked there as head of the economic and political press office of the NSDAP. After a short time as editor of a National Socialist daily newspaper, he became main editor and general manager of the publishing house Deutscher Aufbau as well as main branch manager in the Reich Organization Office of the NSDAP and in the main office of the NS-Hago.

Edgar Bissinger wrote about economic and social policy as well as youth issues for the Völkischer Beobachter, among others . After the outbreak of World War II , he became a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht . His son Manfred Bissinger later said of his father: "He was a National Socialist and he was out of conviction."

Edgar Bissinger was a member of the Reich Association of the German Press and lived with his family in Berlin W 9, Linkstrasse 19. Due to bomb damage, he moved with his family to his in-laws in Bavaria in 1943 .

After the end of the war, Edgar Bissinger wrote a book on the interpretation of dreams , which a friend of the Ebner family published from the Ebner Ulm publishing group. It was mainly exchanged for food from farming families, which was sold on the black market, so that he could buy a house with land in Munich-Lochhausen . Edgar Bissinger later founded a publishing house in Cologne . He died in 1987 and was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich .

He has four children, Edgar (* 1935) and Dieter (* 1936) took over the publishing house and printing company from their father. Manfred Bissinger (* 1940) became a journalist and media manager. Daughter Elke (* 1942) was the youngest child.

Fonts (selection)

  • German trade. Stuttgart 1938.
  • You have to know that! Labor law, social security, family support, etc. in the war . Publishing house of the Germans. Labor front, Berlin 1940.
  • Le provvidenze sociali della Germania nazional-socialista . Bayreuth n.d. [1942].
  • Men and powers on the Rhine and Ruhr . Spindler, Essen-Werden 1951.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter D. Stachura: Nazi youth in the Weimar Republic , 1975, p. 214.
  2. ^ Hermann Schmidt , Miriam Bernhardt: Manfred Bissinger. The opinion maker. A biographical search for traces. Verlag Berg & Feierabend, Berlin 2019, p. 19f. ISBN 978-3-948272-01-2 .
  3. ↑ Schmidt, Bernhard 2019, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Bissinger, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1987
Place of death Munich