Johann Wilhelm Naumann

Johann Wilhelm Naumann (born July 9, 1897 in Cologne , † May 1, 1956 in Würzburg ) was a German journalist and publisher . He was the founding editor of the national, Catholic newspaper Deutsche Tagespost .

Life

Naumann was born in Cologne in 1897 as the son of a master carpenter and his wife. After graduating from high school, he first studied philosophy, history, economics and literature in his hometown. In the First World War he took part as a pilot .

In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). In 1920 he joined the editorial team of the BVP-related newspaper Der Rheinpfälzer in Landau in the Palatinate. After a stopover as a publishing clerk, he was editor of the Catholic-oriented regional newspaper Neue Augsburger Zeitung (NAZ) from 1928 . In 1932 he was the German representative at the International Congress of the Catholic Academic Press in Lille, France.

In the 1930s he took a position against National Socialism in lectures . In 1933 he was banned from working and changed to the publishing house of the catholic Augsburger Postzeitung as an employee . From 1935 he was unemployed . He found a new job in 1937 as a secretary at the Pontifical Mission Societies in Aachen. At the end of the war he lived in Freiburg im Breisgau . After he found shelter with a friend during Operation Tigerfish , American officers found him in Boll in the Black Forest in the summer of 1945 .

After the Second World War he helped to rebuild the German press: in 1945 he and the Social Democrat Curt Frenzel received the license for the Schwäbische Landeszeitung published in Augsburg in the American occupation zone . From 1946 he was a license holder of the Catholic monthly magazine Neues Abendland . Journal for politics, culture and history , as its publisher and temporary editor-in-chief from 1946 until 1951 when it was sold to the financier Erich von Waldburg-Zeil . This laid a foundation for the Western Movement .

When he left the Schwäbische Landeszeitung in 1948, he became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Augsburger Tagespost , with the federal edition operating under the name Deutsche Tagespost . In the summer of 1949 he went on a three-month study trip to the USA , where he turned to the subjects of " religious journalism " and "popular magazine literature". In 1950 the Augsburger Tagespost was renamed the Neue Augsburger Zeitung , which was to be revived. After the paper was discontinued in 1951, the national Deutsche Tagespost first appeared in Regensburg and from 1955 in Würzburg.

In 1945 he was a co-founder of the "Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers", which he headed as 1st chairman until 1950. From 1946 to 1949 he was also chairman of the "Working Group of Newspaper Publishers Associations in the US Zone". In 1947 he was one of the founders of the "Association of German Federalists".

Naumann, a Catholic, was married twice and had several children.

Johann Wilhelm Naumann Publishing House

In 1945 he founded the book and magazine publisher "Johann Wilhelm Naumann".

Johann Wilhelm Naumann Foundation

Naumann is also the namesake of the "Johann Wilhelm Naumann Foundation" established in 2010 in the Diocese of Würzburg , which aims to support Catholic journalism, especially the Deutsche Tagespost .

Awards

1956: Papal Order of Gregorius (Knight)

Fonts (selection)

(Ed.): The press and the Catholic. Indictment and Justification. Handbook for lecture and teaching . On behalf of the Academic Club for Catholic Literature and in collaboration with the Catholic Information, Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1932.
Old and New Occident . Naumann, Augsburg 1948.

literature

Johann Wilhelm Naumann in memory (1897–1956). Leading article from the time the Deutsche Tagespost was founded . Naumann, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-88567-054-2 .
Bruno Jahn (edit.): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 753.
Theodor Herr : JWN and the profile of a Catholic newspaper . In: Catholic press or the divorce of spirits. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Tagespost . Naumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-88567-075-5 , pp. 9-31.
Winfried Jestaedt : Fifty Years of the German Daily Mail. From the founding publisher JWN to the present . In: Catholic press or the divorce of spirits. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Tagespost . Naumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-88567-075-5 , pp. 33-89.
Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.) With the collaboration of Bruno Jahn: Large Bavarian biographical encyclopedia . Volume 2: HO . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 , p. 1378.
Carl-H. Pierk: Naumann, Johann Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 772 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Wilhelm Naumann in the catalog of the German National Library
Johann Wilhelm Naumann , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1956 from June 11, 1956, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Johann Wilhelm Naumann at the House of Bavarian History
Alois Knoller, Günther Grünsteudel : Naumann, Johann Wilhelm, in: Augsburger Stadtlexikon , as of June 26, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jürgen Klöckler : Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 90.
^ Jürgen Klöckler : Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 112.
↑ Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans. Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) . Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57757-0 , p. 113.
↑ Ellen Latzin: Learning from America ?. The US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08629-3 , p. 393.
↑ Barbara Fait, Alf Mintzel (ed.) With the assistance of Thomas Schlemmer: The CSU 1945–1948. Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian-Social Union . Volume 1: Protocols 1945-1946 . Commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary History , Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1907.
↑ Johann Wilhelm Naumann Foundation , stiftungen.bistum-wuerzburg.de, accessed on September 10, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Naumann, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 1956
Place of death	Wurzburg

[Klöckner90-1] Jürgen Klöckler : Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 90.

[2] Jürgen Klöckler : Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 , p. 112.

[3] Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans. Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) . Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57757-0 , p. 113.

[4] Ellen Latzin: Learning from America ?. The US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08629-3 , p. 393.

[5] Barbara Fait, Alf Mintzel (ed.) With the assistance of Thomas Schlemmer: The CSU 1945–1948. Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian-Social Union . Volume 1: Protocols 1945-1946 . Commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary History , Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1907.

[6] Johann Wilhelm Naumann Foundation , stiftungen.bistum-wuerzburg.de, accessed on September 10, 2017.