Josef Hall

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Josef Hall (born March 24, 1891 in Kirchdorf / Baden , † December 12, 1963 in Augsburg ) was a German publisher .

life and work

Hall first attended the commercial college and then began professional training. After completing his apprenticeship, he founded the Saarbrücker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft , where he took over the management between 1920 and 1926. In the years that followed, the company published various Catholic-oriented publications, such as the two magazines The Catholic Man and The Catholic Woman and the Saarbrücker Landeszeitung .

After the National Socialists came to power, the company was finally forced to stop its publications. In 1940, the Reich Press Chamber in Berlin offered Hall the management of the Neue Augsburger Zeitung . It was a non-denominational daily newspaper with a large circulation. After the war-related closure of the Neue Augsburger Zeitung on August 31, 1944, Hall was ordered to the Yugoslavian town of Kranj (Krainburg) to start a German-language newspaper.

After the end of the Second World War Hall returned to Germany. He decided against resuming his publishing business in Saarland and traveled again to Augsburg. First, together with the American press officers, he set about promoting the development of so-called licensed newspapers in various Bavarian cities . Hall decided to take no daily newspaper license, but in 1948 together with the Catholic Men's Factory Fulda The Winfried-Werk GmbH to found. The publishing house, whose editorial office was initially located in Fulda and moved into the newly built publishing house at Augsburger Frauentorstrasse 5 in November 1959, published both books, magazines and brochures with a Catholic character. The magazines Mann in der Zeit and The Catholic Woman were among the first publications . Mann in der Zeit started in 1948 with a print run of 50,000 and in 1957 already had a print run of 500,000. As a publishing director, Hall succeeded in reorganizing the Catholic press after the Second World War.

In addition to his publishing activities, Hall was also involved in the Catholic Church. In 1956 he took over the presidency of the Catholic Family Federation at federal level and was also appointed to the office of diocesan chairman of the Augsburg Catholic Action . One year later 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 was a member of the Augsburg Commandery .

In 1959, Hall introduced the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ludovicia Augsburg in KV on the occasion of the 60th foundation festival in the basement of the publishing house in Frauentorstraße has several rooms available as a connection home.

After his death in 1963, his son Winfried took over the management of Winfried-Werk GmbH , from which the Weltbild publishing group eventually emerged over the years .

Awards

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  • Portrait for Josef Hall's 60th birthday , published in the Schwäbische Landeszeitung, issue no.45, on March 21, 1951
  • Register of persons (authors and biographies): G - K , Walter de Gruyter 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documentation of German-language publishers, Volume 2 , G. Olzog, 1965, p. 506 f.
  2. ^ Old companies of the city of Augsburg, Kreis-Verlag München, 1963
  3. ^ History of the Weltbild publishing group ( Memento from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Stages of lay work in the Diocese of Augsburg , Diocese of Augsburg , accessed on March 9, 2014
  5. ^ History of the K.St.V. Ludovicia Augsburg im KV, accessed on March 9, 2014
  6. ^ Augsburg book printing and publishing: From the beginnings to the present, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchdorf / Baden
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1963
Place of death augsburg