Hellmut Girardet
Hellmut Girardet (born September 2, 1902 in Essen , † May 22, 1973 in Vienna ) was a German publisher , political scientist , journalist and entrepreneur .
Life
Hellmut Girardet came from one of the great German publishing families. His father, Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Girardet , founded or owned newspapers, publishers and large printing companies in Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Leipzig and Zurich around the turn of the century, some of which are still owned by the Girardet family today. Hellmut Girardet attended secondary schools in Bonn and Düsseldorf. He studied economics in Heidelberg, Königsberg and Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1926. rer. pole. Between 1926 and 1933 he worked for various publishers in newspaper technology, commercial departments and editorial offices. In 1933 he joined the Berlin editorial office of the Girardet newspapers. In 1936 - when the National Socialists dissolved the major publishing houses - he took over the management of the “General-Anzeiger” in Wuppertal under the restrictions of the Reichsschriftleitergesetz, which placed the editors directly under Berlin. In 1939 he was drafted as captain of the reserve. In 1949 the “General-Anzeiger” could appear again. In a few months it regained the position of the largest newspaper in the Bergisches Land and belongs to the top group of German regional newspapers.
As a member and sponsor of the European Union, Hellmut Girardet was a European from the very beginning. In 1962 he was the founder and president of the German-Thai Society . He was chairman of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Zeitungsverleger association until he was elected President of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers for the period 1968–1970 .
He was the holder of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Hellmut Girardet died on May 22, 1973 at a newspaper publisher conference.
Hellmut Girardet's son is Michael Girardet (* 1932), personally liable partner of Girardet Verlag KG in Düsseldorf, formerly W. Girardet KG, which was founded by Wilhelm Girardet .
Since 1921 he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg .
Honors
- 1967: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Barbara Gerstein: Girardet, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 408 f. ( Digitized version ). (the information on Hellmut Girardet can be found in the additions and corrections to volume 6; in the online version they are incorporated into the text)
Web links
- Co-founder of the German-Thai Society
- Hellmut Girardet in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64/1056
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girardet, Hellmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1973 |
| Place of death | Vienna |