Herbert Huster

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Herbert Huster

Herbert Enno Huster (born December 15, 1921 in Mühltroff , Vogtland , † January 13, 2005 in Otterndorf ) was a German newspaper publisher. In 1939 he learned the craft of the Swiss sword in the Feodor Frotscher book printing company in Mühltroff.

Life

At the beginning of World War II , he enlisted in the Navy shortly before his 18th birthday. He spent seven months as a WO on an M-Boat 40 and six months as a commander on an R-boat and was discharged at the end of the war in June 1945 as a lieutenant at sea (d. Res.). Huster stayed in Northern Germany and married Hilmtrud von Hassel in June 1945, with whom he had a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife in 1993, he married Anneliese Röder in 2000.

In 1943 he applied to work as a typesetter in a book printer in Otterndorf . The "Otterndorfer Zeitung" founded in 1848 was bought in 1894 by Johann and Robert Hottendorff as the "Nordhannoversche Landeszeitung". In 1949 the Hottendorffs made contact with the Hamburg publishing house Giradet & Co. and the “Niederdeutsche Zeitung” was created. As early as 1954, the “Niederdeutsche” merged with the “Hadler-Zeitung” based in Neuhaus / Oste to form the “ Niederelbe-Zeitung ”.

The old publishers Johann and Robert Hottendorff entrusted Huster with the task of making a fresh start. In 1967 he established the “Nordungsgruppe Nord” as managing director - an advertising combination of 13 publishers in the Hamburg area. Seven years later he laid the foundation stone for the “Hamburg Economic Area Combination” (Wirako), in which the Springer Group was also involved in addition to the small, independent publishers.

In 1961 he founded his own book printing company "Niederelbe-Druck" and published numerous local history, documentary and scientific books. In May 1965 the publishing director Herbert Huster became a personally liable partner of the newspaper publisher Hottendorff KG and in 1969 the company headquarters was relocated from Schleusenstrasse to Gutenbergstrasse (renamed "Herbert-Huster-Strasse" since 2013).

The anniversary in 1965 "Helgoland - 75 years of German" played an important role for which Helgoland's mayor HP Rickmers, Carl Röper as chairman of the Helgoland association and publisher Herbert Huster decided to publish a book. The book "Helgoland - fate of a homeland" and the magazine "Der Helgoländer" (initially as a supplement to the "Cuxhavener Allgemeine") were the basis of a new, journalistic era for islanders and islanders. Several other books about Heligoland from the house "Niederelbe-Druck" followed. "Der Helgoländer" - a monthly magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary in August 2014.

Herbert Huster was 2nd chairman of the Helgoland Association, which until December 31, 1965 carried the name: Association for the Promotion of Prehistoric Investigations in the Wadden Sea and in the German Bight e. V. Honorary member was Jürgen Spanuth , whose ideas they felt obliged to. "The Helgoländer" was originally published by this association.

As early as July 1959, a district edition of the “Niederelbe-Zeitung” was published as “Cuxhavener Allgemeine” with a circulation of 2,000 copies. In July 1970 the first merger took place in Cuxhaven and the "Cuxhavener Allgemeine" and the "Cuxhavener Zeitung" were included in the "Neue Cuxhavener Zeitung" and just six years later it merged with the "Cuxhavener Presse" to form today's "Cuxhavener Nachrichten" . Since 2005 the “Cuxhavener Nachrichten” and “Niederelbe-Zeitung” have been published under the umbrella of the “Cuxhaven-Niederelbe Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG” company.

Huster was a member of the “Association of Northwest German Newspaper Publishers” (VNZV) and the “Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers” (BDZV). He was a member of the VNZV board from 1979 to 1999, where he particularly campaigned for local and regional newspaper publishers. For many years he had also largely determined the tariff policy of the VNZV through his participation in the tariff committee of the regional association.

He has been a member of numerous associations and organizations for many decades and has volunteered for various projects (especially in Otterndorf, Mühltroff and on Helgoland). As early as 1957 he was accepted into the Cuxhaven Masonic Lodge, Anschar, to the Peace Harbor. His motto was: "Preserve, prove and work in the future"

Awards

Publications by Niederelbe-Druck (excerpt)

Heligoland

  • Lummenfels natural monument Helgoland - Dr. Gottfried Vauk, 1985
  • Helgoland - fate of a home - Rickmers, Röper, Huster, 1965, 1974/75 + 1986
  • Reconstruction of Heligoland - Rickmers, Sahling, 1990
  • Helgoland, 100 years of German - Rickmers, Huster, 1990
  • Helgoland - an island on the way to Europe - HP Rickmers, Ms. Woosnam, 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Rohde: supplement "60 years of the Niederelbe-Zeitung". Niederelbe-Zeitung, August 2, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2014 .
  • Report in the Niederelbe-Zeitung of January 17, 2005 in the obituary by Huster author Egbert Schröder
  • Anniversary edition "The Helgoländer" August 2014 - Author Wiebke Kramp
  • Report in the Niederlbe-Zeitung from January 17, 2005 - author Egbert Schröder
personal data
SURNAME Huster, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huster, Herbert Enno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühltroff , Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2005
Place of death Otterndorf