Karl Ackermann (publisher)

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Karl Ackermann (born December 15, 1908 in Heidelberg ; died June 21, 1996 in Mannheim ) was a German journalist and co-founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of Mannheimer Morgen .

education

Registration card for Karl Ackermann as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp

Karl Ackermann was the son of a small watch manufacturer from Schwenningen in Württemberg. He studied sociology and history in Munich and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1931 with a thesis on the organizational disputes in German social democracy before the First World War. After Hitler came to power, he publicly declared himself an opponent and became secretary of the Red Aid organization , which supported the politically persecuted. He was also the editor of the secret resistance journal Süddeutsches Tribunal . After a trial for high treason in 1934, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp , from which he managed to escape in 1937. He emigrated to Zurich, where he became a research assistant in the social archive.

Newspaper foundations

After the end of the war he returned to Germany and in 1945 was granted the license to found the Stuttgarter Zeitung by the US military government alongside Josef Eberle and the former Stresemann secretary Henry Bernhard . After his emigration there he received in 1946, along with Karl Vetter and Eitel Friedrich Schilling von Cannstatt, the license to found Mannheimer Morgen, where he became editor-in-chief. Ackermann was considered close to the KPD , but described himself as "independent" in 1948, probably to prevent a license withdrawal, as happened to Rudolf Agricola from the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ; Agricola printed a controversial article from this (for quote see article Rudolf Agricola ) which was not published in his newspaper. In 1949 he was elected to the board of the DENA news agency . He published comments in Mannheimer Morgen until the 1970s or 1980s.

Ackermann was later considered to have "changed from left wing to commoner". He was involved in the introduction of codetermination for editors at Mannheimer Morgen.

literature

  • Walter Habel: Who is who? , Vol. 1 (West), Berlin 1967, p. 4
  • Udo Leuschner : newspaper history. Verlag Die Arbeitswelt, Berlin 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Leuschner: Newspaper History, pp. 139–141.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Schmid: Cathedral bells between the lines. Die Zeit, January 29, 1971, No. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1996
Place of death Mannheim