Josef Berg (publisher)

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Josef Berg (* before 1907, † after 1964 ) was a German bookseller , publisher and cultural functionary.

Life

The bookseller Josef Berg became an employee of the Franz-Eher-Verlag in 1922 and a close collaborator of Max Amann , who had taken over the management of this central publishing house of the NSDAP in 1922. Berg later became an authorized signatory at Franz-Eher-Verlag and after the Nazis came to power, he became head of the bookstore.

During the time of National Socialism , Josef Berg also became head of the Reichsschrifttumskammer for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria .

Hitler's Second Book was given to an American officer by Josef Berg in May 1945. When the book was rediscovered in 1958 by Gerhard Weinberg in the USA in Nazi archives that had been moved there, Josef Berg confirmed its authenticity to the Munich Institute for Contemporary History .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial legal protection and copyright , magazine of the German Association for commercial legal protection and copyright . International part, Volume 74, Verlag Chemie, 1972, p. 58.
  2. ^ Archive for the history of the book industry, Vol. 60, 2006, ISBN 3-59824-856-3 . P. 269.
  3. ^ Ernst Fischer, Reinhard Wittmann: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Third Reich: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 3: Third Reich. Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-598-24806-1 . P. 187.
  4. ↑ Kirsten Schrick: The Munich Art City Discussion 1781-1945: Documentation of a cultural-historical debate , Holzhausen Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-90051-817-3 . P. 236.
  5. ↑ Hitler. Speeches, writings, orders. February 1925 - January 1933: From the Reichstag election to the Reichstag presidential election. October 1930 - March 1932: Volume 4, Part 1: October 1930 - June 1931. Ed. Constantin Goschler , Christian Hartmann . Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22008-1 . S. XIII.
  6. ↑ Holger Radke: Hitler's foreign policy principles , GRIN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-6386-4382-4 .
  7. ↑ Sabine Viktoria Kofler: Hitler's Second Book - A Forgotten Source of Contemporary History on Hitler's Foreign Policy Views . SE thesis, submitted to ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Albrich, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, publisher and cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH before 1922
DATE OF DEATH after 1964