Erich Bärmeier

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Erich Bärmeier (born July 9, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 28, 2015 there ) was a German publisher , editor and local politician ( SPD ). He is known as the editor of the consumer and leisure magazine DM and the literary-satirical magazine pardon .

Life

Erich Bärmeier was born as the second son of his parents on July 9, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main. The family moved to Leipzig while he was still at school , where he continued his education. Before finishing school he was drafted into military service and a short time later was taken prisoner by the Americans . In 1983, Bärmeier resumed the political science studies that had begun and had been interrupted in 1950. He graduated in 1992 with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. "On the legitimacy of state action under the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany".

Erich Bärmeier was married and had two daughters.

Editing and publishing activities

Bärmeier briefly ran a brochure called “Preisbeobachter” together with Hans A. Nikel . They researched and wrote almost all of them themselves, distributed and sold them in the Frankfurt city area and in trams. The magazine was discontinued after a few months.

In 1954 Bärmeier founded the publishing house Bärmeier & Nikel (B&N) together with Hans A. Nikel with a starting capital of 600 DM. They printed the first books on a borrowed Rotaprint duplicator. In the same year they went public with three “smiley books” at the Frankfurt Book Fair. With its idiosyncratic humorous production and nonchalant presentation, the publisher was a novelty within the German publishing industry and within a very short time achieved the image of a specialist publisher for humor, satire and caricature. The publishing house's total turnover in 1968 was twelve million marks.

This was followed by works by little-known authors such as Robert Gernhardt , Walter Hanel , Otto Köhler , Chlodwig Poth , Felix Rexhausen , Hans Traxler , FK Waechter, and a 20-volume Jules Verne edition with new translations by young authors such as Wolf Wondratschek .

In 1971 the partners separated, Nikel received the satirical monthly newspaper pardon, which was also published by Bärmeier and Nikel, Bärmeier stayed with the DM.

DM

In 1966, Bärmeier took over the test and advice booklet DM after the bankruptcy of the founder Schweizer in spring 1966 together with Hans A. Nikel. In the same year DM went to the start with an initial circulation of 300,000 copies (1.50 marks per issue) and a fortnightly publication. Bärmeier and Nikel had to take large loans for the new DM (purchase and start-up costs: around one million marks). The old DM test institute in Fellbach near Stuttgart, which Bärmeier & Nikel, including DM titles, rights, subscribers and archive, acquired for 320,000 marks and converted it into an independent institute for goods testing GmbH, was also part of the bankruptcy estate. The managing director was the Stuttgart trade magazine and newspaper publisher Hans Keller, vice-president of the German marketing and sales manager club. The own test institute is a forerunner of the Stiftung Warentest .

pardon

Pardon was a German-language literary-satirical magazine that appeared from 1962 to 1982. Erich Bärmeier was responsible for the publishing and distribution business, the editor-in-chief was Hans A. Nikel . The previous success of the Schmunzelbücher provided the share capital for the Pardon foundation.

Local politics

From November 1, 1968 to October 31, 1972, Bärmeier was a member of the city council of Frankfurt for the SPD . The election of Erich Bärmeier as the new assessor together with the lawyer Johannes Düttmann was seen in the media as strengthening the left wing. Bärmeier himself described the faction work as "extremely boring".

Works

  • On the legitimacy of state action under the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany: the incompatibility of state schooling with the constitutional principles of "freedom of the state" and "proportionality", Diss. 1992, ISBN 978-3-631-45372-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Managers and Markets . In: The time . No. 06/1978 ( online ).
  2. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Erich+B%C3%A4rmeier/0/12906.html
  3. ↑ a b "DM": As usual . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1966 ( online - 31 October 1966 ).
  4. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Erich+B%C3%A4rmeier/0/12906.html
  5. ↑ http://www.dw.com/de/spa%C3%9Fguerrilla-mit-spitzer-feder-die-satire-zeitschrift-pardon/a-4250222
  6. ↑ Christoph Gunkel: "Pardon" inventor Nikel: "What an unspeakably narrow-minded time!" In: Spiegel Online . February 23, 2015, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.stvv.frankfurt.de/stvvorg/ehem_STVV.htm#B
  8. ↑ http: //gründeln.de/resources/Teil+3+Stand+20.2.2012++.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Bärmeier, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, editor and local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2015
Place of death Frankfurt am Main