Hans Hackmack

Hans Hackmack (born April 11, 1900 in Hamburg ; † May 28, 1970 in Bremen ) was a journalist and newspaper publisher ( Weser-Kurier ).

biography

Hackmack completed his apprenticeship as a businessman in Hamburg. From 1916 he was already active in the youth of the labor movement. In 1918 he joined the USPD . The journalist Alfred Faust , editor-in-chief of the Bremer Arbeiterzeitung , brought him to Bremen to work for the newspaper. In 1922 he switched to the SPD together with the trunk USPD . He became editor of the Bremer Volkszeitung , which was now headed by Faust and Wilhelm Kaisen . He has written many political articles focusing on the local and cultural fields. In 1927 he joined the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and in April 1931 took over the position of deputy district manager at the side of Oskar Drees . In 1933 he was briefly a member of the Bremen citizenship. After the newspaper was banned by the National Socialists , he worked as a commercial clerk at various companies from 1933 - u. a. at a coffee company - working. In 1935 he was sentenced to three years in prison for his illegal political work and had to do hard labor in the Börgermoor concentration camp in Emsland and in the Oranienburg concentration camp as well as for the Todt organization during World War II .

In 1945 he was active in the fighting community against fascism in Bremen , but left a few years later when the organization was dominated by the communists . Hack Mack received in 1945 by the military government of the American occupation zone , the license to publish a newspaper that the name Weser-Kurier wore and first appeared on 19 September 1945th Hackmack was initially the sole license holder and publisher of the newspaper, then the communist and businessman Bernhard Peters (who soon resigned) and in 1947 Felix von Eckardt, who was not party to the party, but who was closely related to the CDU , joined the license holder. Eckardt was also editor-in-chief at Weser-Kurier until 1951. In 1952 the businessman Hermann Rudolf Meyer took over the publishing house shares from Eckardt and in 1956 acquired further shares from Hackmack, so that both owned the publishing house equally. Meyer's influence expanded significantly thereafter. After becoming increasingly hard of hearing, Hackmack left the management of the Weser-Kurier in 1960.

From 1946 to 1948 Hackmack was again a member of the Bremen parliament as an SPD member . He was a sponsor of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS).

From 2009 to 2013 the grandson Dr. Ulrich Hackmack founded the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG publishing house, which emerged from the Weser-Kurier .

Honors

• The Hans-Hackmack-Straße in Bremen - Obervieland bears his name.
• In 1996 the rescue cruiser Hans Hackmack of the DGzRS was named in his honor . The dinghy was given the first name of Hackmack's wife Emmi.

See also

• Bremen publishing
• Bremen newspaper industry

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Renate Meyer-Braun, Klaus on the garden: Hans Hackmack - A life for free speech . Bremen 2000, brochure for the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday.
• Ulrich Schröder: "We are not a warrior club , but we are not a debating club either." The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Bremen and the surrounding area 1924-1933. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 93 (2014), pp. 121–156.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Renate Meyer-Braun, Klaus Auf dem Garten: Hans Hackmack - A life for the free word, Bremen 2000, p. 7
2. ^ Renate Meyer-Braun, Klaus Auf dem Garten: Hans Hackmack - A life for the free word, Bremen 2000, p. 11
3. ^ Renate Meyer-Braun, Klaus Auf dem Garten: Hans Hackmack - A life for the free word, Bremen 2000, p. 14