Hans Fuchs (publisher)

Hans Franz Gustav Fuchs (born February 6, 1892 in Heilbronn , † 1945 in Danzig ) was a German newspaper publisher.

Life

Hans Fuchs was the son of Gustav Fuchs and his wife Clara Roell. Together with his brother Albert, the father still managed the parents' business, a hardware store on Kaiserstraße in Heilbronn, until 1893 , but then left the company and moved to Danzig, where he worked as a publisher. Hans attended high school in Gdansk and then began studying at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he earned in 1913, the promotion with the work of art in the modern newspaper operation Dr. phil.

During the First World War he served in the Field Artillery Regiment 36 as a reserve officer. After the war, he took on various activities in the newspaper industry, the last of which was an authorized signatory . After the death of his father in 1929 he took over the publishing house as a general partner, which published the newspaper Danziger Latest News (DNN) . Like his father, he also became the chairman of the Association of Newspaper Publishers in the Free City of Gdansk. After 1933 the DNN, the leading paper in the region, was brought into line , and around 1935 the publishing rights were transferred from Fuchs to a publisher that was assigned to the Nazi Franz-Eher-Verlag , controlled by Max Amann .

Hans Fuchs was married to Melanie Schaper, the daughter of General Manager Rudolf Schaper, and had lived in Danzig since 1935. He is said to have died there in 1945.

Individual evidence

^ Marek Andrzejewski: Danzig from the 15th to the 20th century . Volume 19 in: Bernhart Jähnig (ed.): Conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . Verlag NG Elwert, 2006, p. 201
↑ A prevented anniversary. On the history of the “Danzig Latest News” . In: Our Danzig. Bulletin of the Federation of Danzigers, No. 17, September 5, 1969 ( online at Forum Danzig), accessed on December 23, 2015.

Fonts

Technology in the modern newspaper business. Stuttgart 1916.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Berlin 1935.
Cuno Horkenbach : The German Empire from 1918 to today . Publishing house for press, economy and politics, Berlin 1930.

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Fuchs, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fuchs, Hans Franz Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	1945
Place of death	Danzig

[1] Marek Andrzejewski: Danzig from the 15th to the 20th century . Volume 19 in: Bernhart Jähnig (ed.): Conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . Verlag NG Elwert, 2006, p. 201

[2] A prevented anniversary. On the history of the “Danzig Latest News” . In: Our Danzig. Bulletin of the Federation of Danzigers, No. 17, September 5, 1969 ( online at Forum Danzig), accessed on December 23, 2015.