Erich Madsack

View of the villa built by Fritz Höger for Erich Madsack in the style of brick expressionism at Walderseestrasse 3 , today through the kindergarten of the Lutheran Lutheran Church. Markus parish used;
Photo by Carl Dransfeld , circa 1930s; Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg

Family grave Erich Madsack, Luise Madsack and Claudia Freifrau Schilling von Canstadt at the Engesohde city cemetery

Erich Madsack (born September 25, 1889 in Riga , Russian Empire ; † January 8, 1969 in Hanover ) was a German writer , journalist and publisher , editor-in-chief and historian .

Life

Erich Madsack was born during the German Empire as the son of the publisher August Madsack , who among other things founded the newspaper Hannoverscher Anzeiger in 1893 . Erich's older brother was Paul Madsack .

After graduating from high school in 1913, Erich Madsack initially worked as a volunteer at the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt . He then studied German, history, philosophy and art history at the University of Munich , in Berlin and at the University of Leipzig . While he was in the last year of the First World War than in 1918 feuilleton - editor but began his activities at Hannoversche Anzeiger, he placed only at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1919 his dissertation at the Faculty of the University of Leipzig in the topic The Antimachiavell [...] .

In 1920, Eric Madsack was promoted to head of the arts section and in 1921 was granted procuration .

In the seizure of power by the National Socialists Erich Madsack led after his father's death in 1933, the publisher continues to this in February 1943 as a result of the Second World War was zwangsfusioniert with the "Lower Saxony newspaper". Madsack had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937 and at times a supporting member of the SS . The publishing house was damaged by the air raids on Hanover , but after 1945 Madsack was able to start rebuilding the destroyed publishing house with the approval of the British military authorities .

In 1949, Erich Madsack re-founded the Madsack publishing company as a GmbH & Co. KG and resumed operations in the same buildings in Hanover. The successor to the Hannoversche Anzeiger was now the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ), which he published as the first edition on August 25, 1949. In doing so, he laid the foundation for the Madsack media group, which is now the largest media group in Lower Saxony .

In addition, Erich Madsack published the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung and the weekly Land und Garten and integrated the two fonts into the publishing company.

In 1969 his wife Luise Madsack (1911–2001), nee Wirts , took over the management of the publishing house and the editor of HAZ.

Fonts (selection)

Dissertation, 1920

The Antimachiavell. A contribution to the genesis and criticism of the Antimachiavell (= historical studies , booklet 141), dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, 1919
- Reprint of the first edition: Vaduz: Kraus, 1965
Coins from a north German private collection. A small selection of numismatic beauties from around 500 BC. Until the 19th century , 30 sheets with illustrations, Hanover: Madsack, 1963

literature

German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 6 (1997), p. 557
Jens Flemming , Nadine Freund: The Madsacks and the "Hannoversche Anzeiger": a middle-class city newspaper between the German Empire and National Socialism, 1893-1945 . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019 ISBN 978-3-8353-3586-8

Web links

Commons : Erich Madsack - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Madsack.de: History of the MADSACK media group

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hugo Thielen : Madsack, (2) Erich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 242.
↑ ^a ^b Compare the information and cross-references under the GND number of the German National Library
↑ Dieter Tasch : Witness to a stormy time: 100 years of the Madsack publishing company . Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, Hannover 1993, p. 105.
^ "The long way of the Madsacks - historians work on family and company history" , Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 30, 2019
↑ Madsack.de: History
↑ Dieter Tasch: Witness to a stormy time ... , p. 128 ff.
^ Hugo Thielen: Madsack, (2) Erich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 419.
^ Hugo Thielen: Madsack, (3) Luise. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 420

personal data
SURNAME	Madsack, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1969
Place of death	Hanover , Germany

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hugo Thielen : Madsack, (2) Erich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 242.

[DNB-2] Compare the information and cross-references under the GND number of the German National Library

[3] Dieter Tasch : Witness to a stormy time: 100 years of the Madsack publishing company . Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, Hannover 1993, p. 105.

[4] "The long way of the Madsacks - historians work on family and company history" , Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 30, 2019

[5] Madsack.de: History

[6] Dieter Tasch: Witness to a stormy time ... , p. 128 ff.

[7] Hugo Thielen: Madsack, (2) Erich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 419.

[8] Hugo Thielen: Madsack, (3) Luise. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 420