Felix Buttersack (journalist)
Felix Buttersack (born May 10, 1900 in Ellwangen (Jagst) , † March 9, 1986 in Starnberg ) was a German journalist . In 1946 he was the founder, co-editor and until 1963 first editor-in-chief of the subscription newspaper Münchner Merkur , which he was able to put his stamp on over decades. Buttersack was also a co-owner of the Munich newspaper publisher , which published Merkur and, from 1968, the tabloid tz .
Life
The Swabian grew up in Heilbronn and Ulm , where his father was the district court director. He was a soldier in World War I and then studied in Heidelberg and Munich, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.
The conservative butter sack began his journalistic career in the feature section of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger . After the Second World War , from June 1946 to September 1947 he was the first editor-in-chief of Radio Munich , the predecessor of Bavarian Broadcasting .
At that time, Felix Buttersack also had the idea of "Rama dama" (Bavarian for: we do clearing ), a weekend action in which thousands of citizens and even American occupation soldiers prepared to take the grossest debris left by the bombing in Munich remove.
Between 1952 and 1957 he provided support to the then CSU Federal Minister and later Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss with a monthly fee of DM 250. He was supposed to “advise, he should be a contact, as well as stimulators, ideas, etc. Occasionally he also brought his own articles But it was by no means the main purpose of his activity, quite the opposite. ”“ The cooperation with the plaintiff was an act of gratitude, that is to say, it was an act of friendly cooperation. ”This was in the course of a trial that Strauss took before the Munich Regional Court in 1965 against the former Spiegel editor Rudolf Augstein .
From 1956, Buttersack successfully collected donations with the Munich Citizens' Union to enable the reconstruction of three landmarks of the city, the Old Peter , the Cuvilliés Theater and the domes of the Frauenkirche .
Buttersack remained co-editor of Münchner Merkur until 1977, when the major Berlin publisher Axel Cäsar Springer increased its commitment to the Münchner Zeitungsverlag. In 1982, Emil Griebsch Graphische Betriebe KG , operating company of the Westphalian Gazette , owned by the publisher Dirk Ippen, took over his share in the publishing house of 26.4% (other sources: 26.51%) .
For Buttersack's 80th birthday, the Munich newspaper publisher published the laudation For the day, beyond the day . Felix Buttersack was married but had no direct descendants. He is buried in the cemetery of Icking in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen .
Honors
- 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1961: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1965: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1970: Medal " Munich shines - The Friends of Munich" in gold
- 1980: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
literature
- Arnulf Kutsch : Felix Buttersack (1900–1986) . In: Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte . Messages. Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1986, ISSN 0175-4351 , pp. 108-111.
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Buttersack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Buttersack in the Kress media service
- Felix Buttersack in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butterbag, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellwangen (Jagst) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1986 |
| Place of death | Starnberg |