Ewald Schmidt di Simoni

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Ewald Schmidt di Simoni (born August 3, 1898 in Berlin-Baumschulenweg ; † September 2, 1980 ) was a German publisher, journalist and author.

Life

The son of a doctor was with 16 years as a volunteer and officer candidates for the Navy of the Empire active. After a very good naval exam, he was immediately employed as a lieutenant in the navy due to pre-patenting . Dismissed in 1918, he began studying civil engineering in Hanover up to the pre-exam. For financial reasons (death of his father as a medical officer ) he entered the publishing industry. He worked at Ullstein-Verlag , most recently as sales manager in Berlin. Then he moved to the Frankfurter Zeitung and was the main sales manager there. In 1927 he married Else Walter (1928 birth of the first son in Frankfurt (Kay), 1938 second son (Thomas, Ingo) in Düsseldorf). After 1933 in the course of the Nazi situation, he moved to the Kölnische Zeitung in 1934 with Neven-Dumont as his right hand. There is a letter from this time to the NS Gauleiter there, who wanted to advertise him for the NSDAP , but Schmidt di Simoni wanted nothing to do with him and his party in the past or future . This led to him being expelled from the Nazi press chamber. Now he moved to Düsseldorf for his publisher, where he worked as a newspaper wholesaler from 1937 to 1938. Because of the Nazi circumstances, he was again expelled from the Reich Chamber of Culture , so that any activity in the press was prohibited. He then found a textile sales company in Chemnitz. There he was able to sell almost unchanged commercial textile goods to hundreds of customers in Germany as General Director. The company there (Hofmann & Co.) was already working with the Hollerith system across Germany .

Ewald Schmidt di Simoni was drafted into the Navy in 1939 . Thanks to his organizational talent, he advanced to the position of corvette captain and then worked in the area of ​​the MOK-North Admiralty's Staff. At the end of the war as personally "unencumbered" he headed the British Armistice Commission near Hamburg. Because of his merits and skills, he received the British license to run a newspaper. He then founded with Gerd Bucerius (to cover administrative and legal problems), with Lovis H. Lorenz (as columnist) and Richard Tüngel (editor position), Die Zeit as a weekly commentary. All of them soon acquired the much more marketable Stern magazine from Nannenverlag in Hanover. Due to internal disputes, Schmidt di Simoni and Tüngel (Lorenz had already left) later separated from Bucerius, who then restructured the entire publishing house.

In 1957 Schmidt di Simoni received a severance payment of 1 million marks.

Works (selection)

  • Ewald Schmidt di Simoni: plus and minus , Busse-Seewald Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3-512-00419-9
  • Ewald Schmidt di Simoni: The noble wines of the Palatinate , Busse-Seewald Verlag, 1968, ISBN 3-512-00160-2
  • Ewald Schmidt di Simoni: Save traffic , Höhr-Grenzhausen near Koblenz Starczewski, 1972

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Haase, Axel Schildt (ed.): The time and the Bonn republic: an opinion-forming weekly newspaper between rearmament and reunification (=  Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history . Volume 43 ). Wallstein Verlag GmbH, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0243-3 , p. 14 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Time mirror. In: Zeit Online. September 12, 1980. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Ralf Dahrendorf: Liberal and independent: Gerd Bucerius and his time . CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46474-2 , p. 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Karl Heinz Janszen, Zeit Magazin No. 9/1996, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt di Simoni, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Baumschulenweg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1980