John Jahr senior
John Jahr (born April 20, 1900 in Hamburg ; † November 8, 1991 there ) was a German publisher .
Before and during World War II
After a commercial apprenticeship and an internship at Hamburger Sport Extra-Blatt, he worked as a sports editor for Hamburger Nachrichten and other newspapers in the Hanseatic city from 1920–1924 before venturing into his own publishing business with the magazine Sport-Chronik . In 1929 he founded the auto address publisher Dr. von Arnim & Co. and took over the general advertising agency for Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung and the women's magazine Weg der Frau , both of which belong to the communist Munzenberg Group . After the ban of the leaves and that of the Nazis forced resignation of the management in the publishing Dr. Von Arnim moved to Berlin, where he founded the book publisher Die Heimbücherei John Jahr , acquired the partly apolitical magazine Die Junge Dame in 1937 and ran a travel and mail order bookstore. After the Reichstag elections of 1933 , he joined the NSDAP . In autumn 1944, all companies were liquidated as part of the total war . John Jahr experienced the end of the war on Sylt , where he had already brought his family to safety in 1943.
After 1945
Jahr returned to Hamburg and in 1947 received the license for Constanze with Axel Springer , who became the model for many women's magazines; followed by Brigitte and homeware ; 1950–1962 year held a stake in the news magazine Der Spiegel . In 1965, together with Gerd Bucerius and Richard Gruner, he founded Gruner + Jahr GmbH and Co., which later became the Constanze publishing house and the Henri Nannen publishing house with the magazine Stern . In 1969 the Bertelsmann Group took over a large part of the shares from Richard Gruner, who had left the company; In 1971, Jahr withdrew from the active publishing business to join the newly created board of directors and, after being converted into a stock corporation, remained associated with the company as deputy chairman of the supervisory board until 1987. Until recently, he devoted himself to the John Jahr Verlag, founded in 1971, in which a number of specialist magazines on sports and leisure appear. He was co-owner of the first nationwide bookstore chain Montanus currently operated by Frankfurt train station book dealer Hermann Montanus. Most of this went to the Hussel Group in 1979 .
family
John Jahr had four children: John Jahr junior , Alexander , Angelika and Michael.
literature
- Sylvia Lott: The women's magazines by Hans Huffzky and John year. On the history of the German women's magazine between 1933 and 1970. Dissertation. Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-89166-011-1
- Laura Wehr (2000): "The Young Lady" - a National Socialist women's magazine from the holdings of the Upper Palatinate Folklore Museum Burglengenfeld. Annual volume on culture and history in the district of Schwandorf, Vol. 11 , pp. 128–145.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Year, John senior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Year, john |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1991 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |