Elisabeth Allmers

Elisabeth Allmers (born Elisabeth Büttger on March 14, 1930 in Hage ) is a German publisher .

Life

Elisabeth Allmers is the daughter of a doctor from Hage. At the age of five she moved with her parents to Plauen , where her father had been transferred as a medical officer in the Wehrmacht. The next transfer took the family to Fürstenwalde . At the age of eleven she went to boarding school in Thuringia . In 1944 she managed to flee back to East Frisia . At the age of 16 she graduated from high school in Norden and - after briefly attending an interpreting school in Hamburg - studied English, German, art history, theater and newspaper studies at Kiel University .

In 1953 she became a translator and secretary at the American high command in Frankfurt, but only one year later she switched to the airline Pan American World Airways . After getting married, she returned to East Friesland alone with her daughter Doortje in 1966 and lived in Wittmund . She then took on a job as an interpreter and assistant to the management at Krupp Kranbau in Wilhelmshaven .

Then she met her second husband Hajo Allmers, with whom she has a son, Robert. Hajo Allmers was a newspaper publisher, farmer and forester. Elisabeth trained as a horse manager and got more and more involved in publishing through her husband's work, but also through the then managing director Fritz Blume. In 1984 the family decided to take care of the Brune-Mettcker-Verlag, which has survived all technical upheavals to this day. The publisher has newspaper houses in Wilhelmshaven, Wittmund and Jever, in which the Anzeiger for Harlingerland and the Jeversches Wochenblatt , two daily newspapers with a rich tradition, as well as the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung appear. All three newspapers make up the Wilhelmshaven newspaper group.

Her second husband died on August 20, 2014. With effect from January 1, 2016, she resigned as managing director and her son Robert Allmers took over the job.

swell

• Report in the Anzeiger für Harlingerland from March 13, 2010 on the 80th birthday of Elisabeth Allmers
• Death notice in the Anzeiger für Harlingerland from 23 August 2014