Hermann Ullstein

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Hermann Ullstein (born July 6, 1875 in Berlin , † November 22, 1943 in New York City ) was a German publisher .

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship at a grain export company in Russia , Ullstein, the youngest son of Leopold Ullstein (1826–1899), joined the family company Ullstein Verlag in 1902 and devoted himself to expanding the magazine and book department. Ullstein acquired several fashion magazines and suggested the establishment of the magazines "Die Dame" and " Uhu ". When the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1921, he became a board member and deputy chairman. As early as 1911 he joined the Society of Friends .

In 1908, according to the plans of the architect Fritz Behrendt (1877–1941 or −1967), Hermann Ullstein's country house at Taunusstrasse 7 in Berlin-Grunewald was completed by the construction company Joseph Fränkel .

The Ullstein family had to part with their company in 1934, and it was " Aryanized ". The company was renamed Deutscher Verlag in 1937 and incorporated into the central publishing house of the NSDAP . After the publisher was forced to be sold in 1934, Ullstein stayed in Berlin, but had to emigrate to the USA in 1939 and settled in New York City as a private citizen.

In 1952 the company was returned to the Ullstein family. Frederick Ullstein , Hermann Ullstein's son, took over the book business and managed the publishing house until 1959. In 1956, Axel Springer acquired a 26 percent stake in the publishing house, which he expanded to 83 percent in 1960, and later to 100%, making Ullstein Verlag an integral one Part of the Springer publishing house. In 2003 the Ullstein Group was sold to the Swedish media group Bonnier and continued to operate under the name Ullstein-Buchverlage in Berlin. The newspaper publisher founded by Leopold Ullstein remained with Springer.

Publications

  • Advertise and become! A textbook for advertising , Francke, Bern 1935
  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Ullstein . Simon and Schuster, New York 1943. (An autobiographical chronicle of the history of the publishing house, in which Hermann Ullstein self-critically describes his own errors and above all those of his fatherland when the National Socialists gained strength and came to power.) Only published in German in 2013 as:
  • The Ullstein house . Translation by Geoffrey Layton. With an afterword by Martin Münzel. Ullstein book publishers, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3550-08046-3 .

literature

  • Ullstein, Hermann , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 370
  • Ullstein, Hermann , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 775

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , accessed on November 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Hans-Georg Fleck: Review of Herman Ullstein: Das Haus Ullstein , in: Yearbook for Liberalism Research, 2014-2
personal data
SURNAME Ullstein, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Publisher and victim of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1943
Place of death New York City