Hans Dieter Beck

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Hans Dieter Beck (born April 9, 1932 ) is a German publisher . He is one of the two shareholders of the C. H. Beck publishing group and is responsible for the legal, tax and economic publishing program in the company.

Life

From January 1961 Beck worked “as a kind of legal editor” in the publishing house; in the same year he received his doctorate as a lawyer with a dissertation on license agreements. After four years of work in the publishing house and a longer stay in the USA, he gained experience in the judicial service as a court assessor and later as a judge at the Munich district court.

At the end of 1970 he went back to the publishing house to take over the legal and economic area as well as the overall management of the Nördlinger printing company. He has headed the publishing house since 1971. Together with his brother Wolfgang Beck , who is responsible for fiction and non-fiction, he forms the sixth generation of management of the company, which has existed since 1763, directly descending from the company founder. In the 1st quarter of 2017 he initiated his publishing successor.

In other functions, from 1979 to 1982 Hans Dieter Beck was chairman of the Bavarian State Association of the German Book Trade Association and member of the board of the working group of legal and political publishers. Beck was awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989 , the Medal Munich Shines in 1992 , the Schwabinger Art Prize in 1993, the honorary citizen of the city of Nördlingen in 2002 and the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2012 .

Beck lives in Munich , is married and has three daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two German brothers. Retrieved April 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Melanie Amann: The Methuselah complex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 2013 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Maximilian Schenk succeeds Hans Dieter Beck . In: Börsenblatt , November 22, 2016; Retrieved December 20, 2017
  4. ↑ 1960–1989. Retrieved April 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ "More important than the Oktoberfest". Retrieved April 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Hans Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1932