Klaus Herfurth
Klaus Edgar Herfurth (born September 17, 1917 in Leipzig ; † April 9, 2000 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German newspaper publisher .
Life
Klaus Herfurth was born in Leipzig in 1917 as the son of the newspaper publisher Privy Councilor Edgar Herfurth . He grew up in the Herfurth villa in Leipzig's music district and attended the humanistic St. Thomas School in Leipzig .
After graduating from high school , he completed an apprenticeship as a retail bookseller in Munich . He was later trained in a newspaper publisher. Until 1945 he was a soldier in World War II, most recently as a reserve officer . From 1947 to 1952 he was the publishing director and managing director in Saarbrücken . Then he went to Frankfurt am Main .
Herfurth was chairman of the Leipziger Landsmannschaft in the FRG and member of the board of the Association of Central and East German Newspaper Publishers and of the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany .
From 1954 to 1974 he published the Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten , declared as the “home newspaper for Central Germany” in Frankfurt am Main , initially two, later one number per month. The newspaper of the same name, which his father ran in Leipzig until 1945, was the daily newspaper with the highest circulation outside Berlin, but was expropriated and banned in the Soviet occupation zone .
From 1948 to 1963 Klaus Herfurth was married to Gabriele von Pachelbel.
Awards
- Iron Cross 1st class (EK I) (plug-in cross)
- 1968: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- "Golden Rider Badge" of the German Equestrian Association
- Sports badge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herfurth newspaper publisher died . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , May 12, 2000, p. 22.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herfurth, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herfurth, Klaus Edgar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 2000 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |