Hermann Balle

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Hermann Balle (born March 1, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a German newspaper publisher and editor.

Career

Balle was born to the tax inspector Franz Balle and his wife Maria, née Gloning. Due to the transfer of their father, the family moved to Geislingen an der Steige in 1938. He attended elementary school there from 1943 to 1947, then switched to the high school for boys, where he graduated from high school in 1956.

He initially worked for a year at the Geislingen tax office. In May 1957, he began studying history, political science, English and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . Since 1957 he has been a member of the Catholic student union AV Cheruskia Tübingen . In the summer semester of 1959, he went to the University of Munich , where he passed the Philosophikum in May 1960 . He returned to Tübingen to prepare for his dissertation with Waldemar Besson . After another semester in Munich, Balle enrolled at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in November 1962 , where his doctoral supervisor Besson had meanwhile changed. In the fall of 1963, he received his doctorate at the Philosophy Faculty.

In June 1962 he married Christa Huber, daughter of the Straubing publisher Georg Huber , and in 1963 joined the management of the Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung newspaper group . He initially worked there as a journalist and publishing clerk. After Georg Huber retired, Balle and his wife managed the company from 1980. In September 1987 the Straubing local radio AWN went on air, in 1990 the first free advertising paper was launched with Landshut , and the newspaper group has been on the Internet since December 1996. In 2002, Balle retired from operational business and handed over the management of the publishing house to his son Martin .

Balle was a member of the supervisory board of the German Press Agency (dpa) and first chairman of the Association of Bavarian Publishers . He was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of the Bavarian Press . Since July 9, 2004, he has been a member of the ZDF television council as a representative of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers .

Honors

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  • The propaganda confrontation between National Socialism and the Weimar Republic and its significance for the rise of National Socialism , Erlangen-Nuremberg, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation from October 7, 1963

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personal data
SURNAME Balle, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart