Josef Ditzen

Josef Ditzen (born December 30, 1862 in Düsseldorf , † March 7, 1931 in Andernach ) was a German newspaper publisher .

biography

Ditzen was the son of a businessman. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Bonn , the University of Marburg and the University of Jena . He then worked as an editor for the Duisburger General-Anzeiger . In 1889 he became editor-in-chief of the Provinzial-Zeitung in Geestemünde .

In 1895, together with other partners, he founded the Nordwestdeutsche-Zeitung in Bremerhaven for the Lower Weser region . From 1895 Ditzen was also the newspaper's editor-in-chief. He was politically liberal and so he set up his newspaper as a non-partisan and liberal newspaper. In addition, the Nordsee-Zeitung existed in Geestemünde from 1866 to 1901 .

The newspaper became famous in Germany when it literally published the so-called Huns speech , which Kaiser Wilhelm II gave on July 27, 1900 in Bremerhaven when the German East Asian Expeditionary Corps passed to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in the Chinese Empire . This speech triggered considerable criticism internationally and in the German Reich .

After Ditzen's death in 1931 his only son Kurt Ditzen took over the publishing house and the newspaper.

See also

• Bremen publishing
• Bremen newspaper industry

literature

• Walter Nikolei: Ditzen, Josef. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 115 (col. 1-2).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .