Hans Wallenberg

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Hans Wallenberg (born November 17, 1907 in Berlin ; †  April 13, 1977 there ) was a German journalist who became a US citizen in exile .

Life

Wallenberg's urn grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Wallenberg was a son of the editor-in-chief Ernst Wallenberg at Ullstein Verlag of the Vossische Zeitung and BZ am Mittag . After studying in Berlin, Wallenberg worked as an editor from 1928 to 1933.

In 1937 Wallenberg had to emigrate , fled Berlin via Prague - first learned the shoemaker's trade - in 1938 to the USA and initially worked in New York as an assistant clerk for lawyers and business people. In 1939 he founded his own printing agency in New York.

After the United States entered World War II , he was drafted in 1942, making him an American citizen and returning to his hometown as a US Army officer in the early summer of 1945 . According to his own statements, he was committed to the preservation of his old Ullsteinhaus in Tempelhof , which was renamed "Deutscher Verlag" in 1937. His mission was to prevent the newspaper printing presses that were still there from being dismantled, which the Soviet occupation authorities had aimed at. He was entrusted with a variety of journalistic tasks by the US State Department . First he followed Hans Habe from March 1946 to September 1947 and November 1949 to 1955 as editor-in-chief of the Neue Zeitung in Munich, the publisher of which is the Information Control Division of the American occupation authorities .

After 1953 he ran his company in New York, which produced all types of printed products in various languages.

In 1959 he came to Axel Springer - whose confidante he became and made Wallenberg head of Springer's international service in New York. In 1961 he returned to Berlin and headed the public relations department of Axel Springer Verlag and became a general representative of Ullstein GmbH. Managing editor of Die Welt and he was 1962 to 1964 and then until 1967 director of the Ullstein book publishers .

Private

Hans Wallenberg was with Eva, born in 1947. Josepeit, married, died childless and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • 1966: Berlin Kochstraße (The history of the Ullstein Verlag )
  • 1969: A brief history of the newspaper city Berlin (together with Arno Scholz )
  • 1972: Seen from Berlin (experience reports)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aryanization: "Nobody has something to celebrate here" , Der Spiegel 52/1987 of December 21, 1987
  2. ↑ Ernst Cramer : "Do not be afraid!" , welt.de of November 17, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wallenberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1977
Place of death Berlin