Eugene Mündler

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Eugen Wilhelm Mündler (born January 15, 1889 in Ulm ; † 1981 ) was a German journalist and editor-in-chief.

Life and activity

After attending school, Mündler studied philosophy, history and economics. Then he turned to journalism. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he worked closely with the writer Edgar Julius Jung as a journalist . His political attitude at the time is described as conservative and German national.

He initially found jobs in the industrial press of the Ruhr area. From 1921 he was editor-in-chief of the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung . In 1930 Mündler switched to the Rheinisch-Westfälische Abendzeitung in Essen as editor-in-chief . In May 1938 the Reich Press Chief, he was at the instigation of Otto Dietrich also the main editors of the Cross newspaper and the Berliner Tageblatt transmitted. Both newspapers were published by Deutscher Verlag at the time and were discontinued on January 31, 1939. Mündler then regularly wrote leading articles for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1940 Mündler became editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Das Reich , whose editors the Propaganda Ministry deliberately did not have National Socialists but representatives of the former bourgeois press. This publication, which after the Völkischer Beobachter was the second largest circulation press of the Nazi era, gained importance above all because the Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels contributed the leading articles. Mündler remained in the position of chief executive until January 31, 1943, when he was replaced by Rudolf Sparing at the instigation of the Propaganda Ministry . From 1943 to 1945 he was head of the Munich editorial office of the Völkischer Beobachter .

In the post-war period, Mündler was back in the service of the Ruhr industry.

Fonts

  • The transition from assonance to rhyme in the old French folk epic , 1914.
  • 100 years of Friedrich Krupp Konsum-Anstalt. 1858-1958 , 1958.

literature

  • Erika Martens: For example “Das Reich”. On the phenomenology of the press in the totalitarian regime. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-8046-8459-9 , pp. 65f.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 285 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Martens: For example. Das Reich , 1972, p. 65.
  2. ^ Peter de Mendelssohn: Newspaper City Berlin: People and Powers in the History of the German Press , 1982, p. 462.
  3. ^ Burkhard Treude: Conservative Press and National Socialism. Content analysis of the "Neue Preußische (Kreuz-) Zeitung" at the end of the Weimar Republic. Study extension Brockmeyer, Bochum 1975. (= Bochum Studies for Journalism and Communication Studies; 4), p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Mündler, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mündler, Eugen Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 1981