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Erich Julius Otto Vaternahm (born November 29, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 20, 1964 in Bad Homburg ) was a German entrepreneur and newspaper publisher.

Life

Vaternahm was a son of the bookseller Otto Vaternahm, senior director of the Julius Vaternahm company, which was particularly successful in the train station book trade, and his wife Mathilde, née Tiemer. He attended the Wöhler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt's Westend and from 1913 studied law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Rhenania . His studies were interrupted by his participation in the First World War . In 1921 he became a doctor in Heidelberg with a thesis on copyright and publishing law. jur. PhD. In the same year he joined the Kölner Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei AG, where he became an authorized signatory in 1922 and a member of the board in 1929. As publishing director, he ran the Cologne morning newspaper “Der Neue Tag”. When, during the Nazi era, at the instigation of Gauleiter Josef Grohé, the two local Cologne newspapers “Der Neue Tag” and “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” were merged under the name “Kölner Nachrichten”, their publishing director took over.

In 1956 he moved to Frankfurt am Main and took over the management of the Julius Vaternahm company.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1956)

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1941.
• Black art keeps him vigorous . In: Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung of November 28, 1963