Joseph Carl Huber

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Joseph Carl Huber , also JC Huber , (* 1870 or 1871, † March 7, 1948) was a German publisher.

Life

On December 12, 1890, Huber opened a small printing company in Dießen am Ammersee . A few years later he was able to add a book printing company and then continue to expand the company under changing names (printing company JC Huber & Sohn, Graphische Kunstanstalt Jos. C. Huber KG). At the time of the company's 75th anniversary in December 1965, according to Der Spiegel, “well-known publishers and world-famous industrial companies were among the company's business partners”.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Huber's printing company was one of the most important partners of the National Socialist press, whose products it printed: As early as 1920, the company offered the German Workers' Party , the predecessor of the NSDAP, 5,000 leaflets as gifts in anticipation of further orders.

In the following years, Huber's company printed numerous books, brochures, leaflets and the like on behalf of the NSDAP. On February 13, 1932, the then printing and publishing house was searched by the police at the same time as the Brown House , the party headquarters of the NSDAP.

In 1934, Huber brought a lawsuit against Max Amann , the owner of the Franz Eher Verlag in Munich, before the Augsburg Higher Regional Court , including the question of whether Huber could call his publisher the “oldest National Socialist publisher”. Huber was represented in this process by the lawyer and former member of the Bavarian state parliament, Alexander Glaser . The authorized signatory of Eher-Verlag stated during the process: “The Huber company and its [sic!] Owner should be destroyed. We do not fight civilly. "

A few weeks later, Huber learned that his lawyer Glaser and his friend Bernhard Stempfle had been shot in the course of the Röhm affair and that the SS were looking for him, whereupon he fled to Augsburg and then Berlin. There he was arrested by the Gestapo at the beginning of August, several weeks after the wave of purges had ended.

On July 11, 1934, Huber's assets were confiscated by the Bavarian Political Police and his company was liquidated by a sequester. In the years that followed, German journalism in exile also circulated the incorrect assumption that Huber, like Glaser and Stempfle, had been shot during the Röhm affair.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Aquinata Schnurer OP: Home book of the market in Dießen am Ammersee . Ed .: Markt Dießen am Ammersee. Jos. C. Huber, Dießen am Ammersee 1976, p. 83 .
  2. ↑ Der Druckspiegel, 1966, Vol. 21, p. 62.
  3. ^ The Munich NSDAP 1925–1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP. P. 313.
  4. ↑ Konrad Heiden: Hitler , Vol. 1, 1936, p. 389.
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Joseph Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, JC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1870 or 1871
DATE OF DEATH after 1934