Herbert Fleissner

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Herbert Fleissner (born June 2, 1928 in Eger / Cheb ; † November 25, 2016 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and publisher .

Life

Herbert Fleissner was born in Eger in 1928 as the son of a bank clerk. After the expulsion from the Sudetenland and the high school in Salzburg in 1947 studied Fleissner Law at the University of Innsbruck and was established in 1952 to Dr. jur. PhD.

In Innsbruck he became a member of the Suevia fraternity . Since 1984 he was on the board of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . In 2010 he was elected to the Presidium of the Sudeten German Council . He was a member of the Witikobund and the CSU . In 2004 Herbert Fleissner received the first Gerhard Löwenthal Honorary Prize for his life's work, awarded by the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research (FKBF). In 2008 he was awarded the Ulrich von Hutten Medal of the Society for Free Journalism , the largest right-wing extremist cultural association in Germany according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Herbert Fleissner lived and worked in Munich. He was married to Gisela Fleissner and had four children, Brigitte, Michael, Richard and Georg.

Act

Herbert Fleissner was a book publisher who published important authors of various stripes as well as biographies of famous personalities from politics and culture in his publishing houses. He published books because he wanted to help shape politics. The authors published in Fleissner's company included a. Ephraim Kishon , Friedrich Torberg , Stefanie Zweig , Alexander Solschenizyn , Selma Lagerlöf , Ernst Nolte , Joachim Fernau , Hellmut Diwald , Nahum Goldmann , Willy Brandt and Simon Wiesenthal . Herbert Fleissner was the only major publisher in Germany who also published books by former Nazi authors to a significant extent. Fleissner also took a leading position within the journalism of expellees and had numerous books published with memories of the former German eastern territories. Even industry insiders could hardly tell at the time which publishers belonged to Fleissner, the “master of cooperation”, and which only cooperated with his group.

In 1952 he founded a book mail order company and a literary publishing house in Munich. In 1962 the Amalthea-Verlag , 1966 the Herbig-Verlag , 1967 the Langen Müller Verlag , 1974 the Nymphenburger Verlag and terra magica. In 1984 the publishing group thus created was merged with the Ullstein / Propylaen publishers of the Axel Springer Group (until 1996). In September 2004 Herbert Fleissner retired from active management of the publishing houses after more than 40 years. In 2004 the daughter Brigitte Fleissner-Mikorey took over the management of the LangenMüller Herbig nymphenburger terra magica publishing group in Munich. The son Michael Fleissner is the managing director of Kosmos and the Belser Verlag in Stuttgart . These two book publishers as well as the publishers Langen Müller Herbig, Nymphenburger and terra magica, which moved from Munich to Stuttgart in spring 2017, are combined under the roof of the Franckh Media Group.

honors and awards

literature

  • Birthday album in seven decades to June 2, 1998: Dr. Herbert Fleissner, publisher. Edited by Michael Fleissner and Brigitte Fleissner-Mikorey. Munich 1998. [1]
  • Buy books! Publishing posters around d. Turn of the century. Edited by Herbert Fleissner. With a foreword by Frieder Mellinghoff. Dortmund: Harenberg, 1982. (The bibliophile paperbacks 347) [2]
  • Hans Sarkowicz : Right business. The unstoppable rise of the German publisher Herbert Fleissner . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8218-0458-0 .
  • Relocated according to Faust. Herbert Fleissner in conversation with Jan R. Egel. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Frankfurt / Main, Vol. 162, 1995, No. 62, pp. 9-14. [3]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See History of the Sudeten German Youth (SdJ): Fleissner, Herbert. In: History of the Sudeten German Youth (SdJ). Private website, accessed July 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans. Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 384.
  3. ↑ Fleissner, Herbert Belltower. News August 13, 2008
  4. ^ Jan Bielicki: Right-wing extremists honor Munich publishers. Applause from the wrong corner . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010.
  5. ↑ See Hans Sarkowicz: Right business. The unstoppable rise of the German publisher Herbert Fleissner . Frankfurt a. Main 1994, p. 13.
  6. ^ Herbert Fleissner - Munzinger biography. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ See Hans Sarkowicz, ibid., Pp. 17-21.
  8. ↑ See Hans Sarkowicz, ibid. P. 40.
  9. ↑ Dr. Herbert Fleissner ( Memento from October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). herbig.net, March 12, 2016.
  10. ↑ Fleissner publishers become the Franckh media group . buchreport.de. October 10, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fleissner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger / Cheb
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2016
Place of death Munich