Erwin Finkenzeller

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Finkenzeller (born May 9, 1903 in Munich ; † after 1949) was a German advertising director and managing director.

Life

Finkenzeller participated in the Hitler putsch in Munich in 1923 before joining the NSDAP in 1926 . In 1927 he became head of advertising in the central publishing house of the NSDAP Franz Eher in Munich , where u. a. the Volkischer Beobachter also appeared. In 1933/34 Finkenzeller became managing director in the advertising council of the German economy. In this function, in a lecture at the end of November 1933, he named the German advertising method under National Socialist leadership as the main task of the advertising council. Then Finkenzeller was from 1934 to 1943 head of the general advertising company (Ala) and 1942 at the same time head of the publishing house of the Deutsche Zeitung in Norway . In 1943 he became a member of the Waffen SS and joined the Kurt Egger SS standard , the SS propaganda group.

After the Second World War , Finkenzeller was classified as a “fellow traveler” during his denazification process by the Munich Chamber of Justice on December 28, 1948. However, according to the Spruchkammer, through his participation in the Hitler putsch in 1923, for which he was awarded the Order of Blood , he “more than insignificantly promoted National Socialism ”. In 1949 Finkenzeller was appointed director of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, responsible for the newspaper's advertising area. He received this function at the suggestion of the newspaper founder Erich Welter , who was able to allay the initial concerns of the managing director Otto Klepper about Finkenzeller's Nazi past. With regard to the optimization of the advertising business, Finkenzeller is, according to Welter, “an outright cannon”, but can only “operate properly from the publisher's management”.

Fonts

  • The advertising advice organizes the advertising! Advertising protection association, Berlin-Lichterfelde-West 1933

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 150.
  • Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister, Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47597-3 , pp. 35–86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister, Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945, pp. 35–86, here pp. 53–55, quotation p. 55.
  2. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 54f.
  3. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 55 and p. 273.
  4. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Finkenzeller, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German advertising manager and managing director
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH after 1949