Hans Dürrmeier

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Hans Dürrmeier (born December 12, 1899 in Haltingen ; † May 9, 1977 in Munich ) was a German publishing merchant and the first general director of the Süddeutscher Verlag .

Life

Dürrmeier had been active since the 1920s and also during the National Socialist era with lectures and publications on the subject of advertising (especially advertising in print media) and rose to high positions in the advertising industry after the end of the Second World War (President of the "Central Committee of the Advertising Industry " ). From 1952 he was the first managing director ("General Director") of the Süddeutscher Verlag (SV) and thus, together with the founders of the publishing house from 1945 ( Edmund Goldschagg , Franz Josef Schöningh and August Schwingenstein ) and the fourth license holder Werner Friedmann, who joined in 1946, played a key role in the development of the Publishing house from which the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) originates. For his success, publishing director Dürrmeier also received shares in the SV in 1952 and thus became "managing partner". From 1960 to 1975 he was chairman of the SV shareholders' meeting (then honorary chairman). At times Dürrmeier was also co-editor (publisher) of the evening newspaper . In the second half of the 1960s he was a member of a press commission for Federal Interior Minister Paul Lücke .

In addition, in 1949 Dürrmeier was the founder of the “Advertising and Advertising Science Institute” in Munich (today “Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing”, BAW), as one of the three deputy chairmen of the sponsoring association, co-founder of the German School of Journalism (DJS, formerly Werner-Friedmann -Institute) and was one of the main sponsors of the establishment of the German Press Council , the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Tageszeitungen Kavalier der Straße in the German Road Safety Council ” and the charity campaign “SZ Advent Calendar”. He also supported many civic initiatives in Munich, including the reconstruction of the Old Peter , the National Theater and the Prince Regent Theater . In 1961, together with the writer Florian Seidl, he initiated the annual “ Schwabing Art Prize ”. In 1968 the Lions Club München-Bavaria was founded under Dürrmeier's presidency . In the organizing committee of the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Dürrmeier, then also the first chairman of the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers, was chairman of the committee for public relations.

For his services he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, in 1962 the Bavarian Order of Merit , in 1967 the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Jakob Fugger Medal of the Association of Magazine Publishers in Bavaria and in 1969 the Golden Citizen Medal of the State Capital of Munich . The Hans-Dürrmeier-Weg in Munich's district 8 (Schwanthalerhöhe) was renamed after him in 2002 . There is also a Hans-Dürrmeier-Weg in his birthplace Haltingen (now part of Weil am Rhein ). In 2000, his son Hanns-Jörg Dürrmeier , at that time chairman of the shareholders' meeting of Süddeutscher Verlag, dedicated the Hans Dürrmeier Foundation to journalism at the DJS (funding purpose: care, training and further education of young journalists in all areas for the newspaper and magazine press, for radio, television and the new media as well as for journalistic public relations and the promotion of science and research in the field of journalism and journalism) in memory of his deceased father. The Hans Dürrmeier scholarship from the TR publishing union in Munich supports talented participants in need in the joint media courses of the German broadcasters (“ Telekolleg ”).

Awards

Jakob Fugger Medal of the Association of Magazine Publishers in Bavaria (1967)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Dürrmeier, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first general director of the Süddeutscher Verlag
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Haltingen
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1977
Place of death Munich