Hermann Vitalowitz
Hermann Vitalowitz (born June 23, 1890 - April 4, 1965 ) was a German newspaper publisher .
Life
Vitalowitz was the owner of the large newspaper printing company Dr. Hermann Vitalowitz & Co. in Munich, where, among other things, the CSU party newspaper Bayernkurier was produced.
Vitalowitz joined the NSDAP after the membership ban ended in 1937 . He was denazified as a "fellow traveler" in Starnberg in 1947 . From 1945 he was a shareholder in Münchener Zeitungsverlag KG, which published the Münchener Zeitung . He was the founder of "Neue Münchner Verlags GmbH", which published Münchner Mittag , and from 1947 Münchner Merkur .
In 1957 he was appointed Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Munich on April 30, 1957 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belonged to the Commandery of Munich. He was a member of the Görres Society .
Honors
- 1950: Honorary doctorate Dr. theol. honoris causa of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich
- 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Theodor Heuss
- 1957: Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
- 1959: Papal secret chamberlain (real secret chamberlain, with sword and cloak) by Pope Johannes XXIII.
literature
- Register of persons (authors and biographies): S - Z , KG Saur Verlag GmbH, Walter De Gruyter, 2007
- Archive for Family History Research , CA Starke-Verlag 2006, p. 26
- Christoph Walther: The Vitalowitz 1825 to 1953: Political biography of a Munich family . Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Münchner Merkur: Participation of Wolfgang Huck and Ludwig Vogl , Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, accessed on January 8, 2014
- ↑ Hans Jürgen Brandt: Jerusalem has friends. Munich and the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher , EOS 2010, p. 98.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vitalowitz, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German newspaper publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1890 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1965 |