Joseph DuMont

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Karl Joseph Daniel DuMont (nickname Joseph, born July 21, 1811 in Cologne , † March 3, 1861 ibid) was a German publisher and editor of the Kölnische Zeitung .

Life

Joseph DuMont was the son of the Cologne publisher Marcus DuMont and Katarina Jakobina Schauberg (1779–1845). After completing his school education at the Catholic grammar school in Cologne and at a Jesuit boarding school in Brig , he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig , which he continued in Regensburg in the Friedrich Pustet bookstore . In 1831 he married Juliane Kock.

After the death of his father in 1831, at the age of 20, DuMont took over management of the company together with his mother. The enterprising mother remained the owner of the DuMont bookstore in Cologne, the publisher of the Kölnische Zeitung and the DuMont-Schaubergische Druckerei until 1844 . Under the direction of Katarina Schauberg and Joseph DuMont, the Kölnische Zeitung temporarily achieved a monopoly of press products in the Rhineland .

Gravestone of the DuMont family in the Melaten cemetery (rebuilt after the Second World War )

After his mother's death in 1845, the business areas were separated: while the younger brother Michael (1824–1881) took over the bookstore and book publisher, Joseph DuMont devoted himself to the Kölnische Zeitung and the newspaper publisher from 1847 . In the same year, DuMont acquired a plot of land on Breiten Strasse in Cologne and established its new company headquarters there . He was one of the first publishers to hire correspondents for the Kölnische Zeitung , had editorials printed and in 1848 had a circulation of 17,400 copies. In terms of content, the newspaper increasingly developed into the leading press product of the Rhenish Liberals from 1843 and fell under the official Prussian press censorship until the announcement of freedom of the press in 1848 . DuMont himself was charged with libel of majesty , defamed and administratively intimidated and persecuted by the Prussian interior minister. Even after 1848 the DuMont publisher continued to be viewed with suspicion by the government. DuMont introduced the newspaper novel and the regular feature section during this time . He managed to win over well-known and respected writers and poets such as Levin Schücking , Karl Gutzkow , Berthold Auerbach , Willibald Alexis , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Karl Simrock and Ferdinand Freiligrath for his feature pages in order to further increase the reputation of the newspaper.

At the age of 49 years DuMont died in March 1861 from the effects of pneumonia . His successor as publisher was his son-in-law August Neven DuMont .

Effect in economy, culture and society

Joseph DuMont was one of the most innovative and farsighted publishers of the 19th century and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce . Like David Hansemann , he recognized the importance of the railroad for economic development. He was a member of the boards and directors of various railway companies. He was a patron of art, culture and Cologne customs . He was a board member of the concert society and the Rheinische Musikschule as well as active in the cathedral building association , art and trade association.

City Hall Tower Cologne: Joseph DuMont (r.)

From 1846 Joseph DuMont was a member of the Cologne municipal council and deputy member of the provincial parliament .

Honors

As part of the new conception of the figurative decoration on the Cologne town hall tower , DuMont was honored with a figure by Theo Heiermann as one of the personalities deserving of the city , which has been on the second floor on the east side of the tower since 1991. In the Cologne district of Nippes , the Joseph DuMont vocational college with a focus on economics and administration was named after him.

literature

  • Karl Buchheim: The history of the Cologne newspaper, its owners and employees , Volume 2: From the beginnings of Joseph DuMont to the outcome of the German bourgeois revolution 1831-1850 . Cologne 1930.
  • Detmar Heinrich Sarnetzki:  DuMont, Karl Joseph Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 190 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Georg Potschka: Karl Joseph Daniel DuMont (1811 to 1861) . In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century . Pullach 1975, pp. 122-129.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Detmar Heinrich Sarnetzki:  DuMont, Karl Joseph Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 190 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Joseph DuMont . In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 125-126.
  3. ↑ Hiltrud Kier, Bernd Ernsting, Ulrich Krings (eds.): Cologne: Der Ratsturm - His story and his program of figures. Stadtspuren, Volume 21, JP Bachem, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1156-0 , pp. 538-540.
  4. ↑ History of the Joseph DuMont Vocational College ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 18, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jdbk.de
personal data
SURNAME DuMont, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DuMont, Karl Joseph Daniel (full name); you Mont, Joseph; You Mont, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1861
Place of death Cologne