Gustav Fuchs (publisher)

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Gustav Adolf Fuchs (born June 27, 1857 in Heilbronn , † March 9, 1929 in Danzig ) was a German newspaper publisher and member of the Danzig magistrate and later parliamentary senator in the Senate of the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Gustav Fuchs was the eldest son of the Heilbronn merchant Gustav Fuchs († 1878), who had founded a hardware store in Heilbronn Kramstrasse in 1864 . Gustav Fuchs trained as a banker and then studied economics in Strasbourg with Gustav Schmoller . After the early death of his father, he and his brother Albert joined the family business, which was continued by his mother Luise. In 1884 he and his brother took over the company. In 1893 he left the company and took up various activities in the newspaper sector. In 1894 he founded the company Fuchs & Cie. In Gdansk . in which he was a partner, and the publishing house that published the newspaper Danziger Latest News .

In 1907 Fuchs founded the Württemberger Zeitung together with August Huck , who had acquired the Stettiner Latest News in 1902 , and with August Madsack in Stuttgart , whose publishing house was merged two years later with the publishing house of the Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt under the holding Stuttgarter Zeitungsverlag .

In Danzig he lived on Breitgasse, where the publishing house was also located. He ran the newspaper publisher until his death in 1929. His son Hans Fuchs then took over the publishing house and the newspaper . In Danzig he was a senator in the magistrate and headed the department for the savings bank. For his services to the technical development of the newspaper industry he was awarded the honorary title of Dr.-Ing. awarded on an honorary basis.

Gustav Fuchs was politically active at an early age and represented liberal positions. In the Reichstag election in 1887 , he ran unsuccessfully for the National Liberal Party in Württemberg . In 1899 he became a city councilor and later a member of the magistrate. After Danzig was separated from the Reich, he became a State Councilor and, after the Free City of Danzig was formed, he was parliamentary senator from 1920 to 1924. He made special contributions to the theater industry, in particular to the forest plays in Gutenberghain near Danzig.

Offices

  • Chairman of the Association of West Prussian Newspaper Publishers (until Danzig was separated from the German Empire)
  • Chairman of the Association of Newspaper Publishers in the Free City of Gdansk Region

Memberships

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Fuchs (Ed.): 100 years of Gustav Fuchs. Heilbronn 1964.
  2. ^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (ed.): German press publishers of the 18th and 20th centuries (=  journalistic-historical contributions . Volume 4 ). Verlag Documentation Saur KG, Pullach near Munich, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4  ( formally incorrect ) , chapter: B. Uwe Weller: Wolfgang Huck (1989–1967). .
  3. ^ Member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1927–1929
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher and senator in the Danzig magistrate
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1929
Place of death Danzig