Hans Josef Mundt

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Hans Josef Mundt (born March 13, 1914 in Siegburg ; † July 21, 2002 in Munich ) was a German writer, editor and publisher.

After attending a grammar school in Siegburg, Mundt studied philosophy, art and literary history and newspaper studies in Munich, Freiburg, Bonn and Paris. He received his doctorate in 1948. Between 1939 and 1946 he did military service and was a prisoner of war. In 1947 he was an editor at the Bürger Verlag; from 1948 to 1973 he was a publisher's editor, editor, manager and managing director. He was the publishing director of the Kurt Desch publishing house . From 1974 to 1983 he was a managing board member of VG Wort and since 1984 managing director of the social fund and the authors' pension scheme of VG Wort.

In 1942 he married Edith Mundt, b. Heuser († 1993), and had two sons with her. Mundt was a member of Group 47 and the PEN Center in Germany .

Publications

• Voltaire and the Press: A Contribution to Eighteenth-Century Literary Journalism in France with an outlook on the entirety of the press. Munich, Phil. F., Diss. V. March 1, 1949.
• Ed .: Theodor Fontane's Collected Works, 1954.
• Edited with Robert Jungk from 1964. Models for a new world - reaching for the future; Ways into the new millennium; Germany without a concept ?; Our World 1985; The Controversial Experiment - Man; Love and hunger; Paradise before us ?; Escalation of new weapons; The way to the year 2000; Machines like people; Challenges to the future; Because we want to survive; World health report; Does the family still have a future?