Gerhard Rudolf Barsch
Gerhard Rudolf Barsch (born August 23, 1913 in Berlin ; † 1993 ) was a German publisher .
Life
Before 1933 Barsch was employed by August Scherl's publishing house in Berlin. In 1936 he became the owner of the Trier owned by the lawyer Thristian Stock and his wife Johanna, geb. Besselich Aryanized newspaper publisher and the N. Besselich publishing house .
Magazines
Under the direction of the British Information Control Unit , the editors Rudolf Augstein (Department Germany), Hans Joachim Toll and Roman Stempka published a political magazine in Hanover called This Week from November 16, 1946 . The editors criticized the occupation policy of the Allied Control Council . In order to maneuver out of the position of the economic control authority, the Information Control Unit intended to pass the license on to Germans. Roman Stempka referred Barsch to his acquaintances from Scherlverlag as a publishing clerk for this project. With him, Barsch, Stempka and Augstein became licensees in 1946. Augstein published the magazine from January 4, 1947 as editor-in-chief under the title Der Spiegel . Barsch left as a partner in 1950 and Stempka in 1952.
From 1946 to August 1950, Barsch was a licensee of Spiegel in Hanover . In August 1950 he sold his third of the shares in Spiegel-Verlag for about 60,000 German marks to John Jahr senior .
From 1951 to 1973 Barsch published fragrances, aromas and body care products in his specialist publishing house in Hanover-Mitte , a specialist journal for the essential oils, fragrances, perfumes, cosmetics, aromas, essences, detergents and soap industries.
Association work
Barsch was temporarily chairman of the Lower Saxony magazine publishers association, board member of the Association of German magazine publishers and member of the board of the Central Association of the German Advertising Industry .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Deutschlands Druckgewerbe, 1936, p. 329 [1] ; Who's who in Germany 1990, 1990, p. 64
- ↑ Founding partner of the SPIEGEL publishing house next to Augstein, the publishing clerk Gerhard R. Barsch, who retired from SPIEGEL in 1950 in order to bring the specialist journal “Ethereal Oils and Fragrances” to a new bloom, Der Spiegel , August 24, 1960, SPIEGEL-VERLAG, Augstein's second leg [2]
- ↑ August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel - 1989, Who is Who ?: The German Who's Who, p. 49
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Persch, Gerhard Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |