Kurt Ditzen
Kurt Ditzen (born December 15, 1891 in Bremerhaven , † October 8, 1982 in Bremerhaven) was a German lawyer and newspaper publisher .
biography
Ditzen was the only son of the newspaper publisher Josef Ditzen. He completed his law degree in Heidelberg in 1914 with the first state examination. There Ditzen also became a member of the Vineta fraternity . He was a soldier in the First World War . From 1922 to 1931 he was a judge at a court in Bremen.
After the death of his father in 1931 he took over the management of the Nordwestdeutschen-Zeitung in Bremerhaven. From 1935 he was personally liable partner of the Nordwestdeutscher Verlag Ditzen & Co KG . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . After the Second World War , he received no license to publish a newspaper from the military government in the American zone of occupation . He leased the business for five years to the Nordsee-Zeitung, founded in 1945 . After he was classified as exonerated in the denazification process in 1948 , he took over the publishing house again in 1949. The old title Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung soon appeared again as a subtitle for the newspaper. From 1949 to the 1970s, Ditzen entered into a partnership with the Bremen publisher Walter Schünemann and the Bremer Nachrichten .
His adoptive son Joachim Ditzen-Blanke (1925–2019) was a co-publisher from 1965 and from 1982 to 1997 sole publisher.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us - publishing house between tradition and innovation. Schünemann Verlag , accessed on August 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (About Us - Verlag).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ditzen, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and newspaper publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremerhaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1982 |
| Place of death | Bremerhaven |