Fritz Pudor

Fritz Pudor (born August 6, 1899 in Elbing , West Prussia, † December 30, 1977 in Essen ) was a business journalist and publisher.

Life

Fritz Pudor was the son of the dike rent master Carl Pudor , the Elbingen city council and founder of a local history association and museum.

Fritz Pudor attended the Royal High School and after graduating from high school, served in Osterode from the summer of 1917. He studied law, German, history and political science in Königsberg, Berlin and Greifswald, and received his doctorate in political science at the end of 1922 with a thesis on the Upper Silesian iron industry during the war . This was followed by training in banking and industry.

From 1923 he was editor at the Hannoversche Kurier . Privy Councilor Gumpel ( Hermann Gumpel or his brother) appointed him as authorized representative of his Hanoverian banking house ZH Gumpel , for which he published a handbook of Hanoverian stock exchange values .

At the end of 1929 he became a press member of the north-western group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists in Düsseldorf. From 1935 to 1945 he was the main editor of the Ruhr and Rheinwirtschaftszeitung . Then he began the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Firmenjahrbuch with 20 chambers of industry and commerce , where he lived in a bombed house in Wetter . After taking over Westverlag GmbH in Essen , he published the company yearbook and the business yearbook. In 1953 he separated from the company and took over the publishing management of Industriekurier in Düsseldorf , where he was promoted to general representative. He kept the post after the merger with the Handelsblatt , until he left in 1972.

He wrote the biographies of important business leaders in the Rhine-Ruhr area. He felt a lifelong bond with his hometown Elbing and published the cultural publication series Elbinger Hefte from 1949–1974 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pudor, Fritz