Leopold Ullstein

Leopold Ullstein; Portrait of Oskar Begas , 1882

Leopold Ullstein (born September 6, 1826 in Fürth ; † December 4, 1899 in Berlin ) was a German publisher .

Life

Leopold Ullstein was initially trained in his father's company, a paper wholesaler in Fürth, and took over the business with his brothers in 1847. The paper wholesaler was relocated to Leipzig in the 1850s . After disputes among the Ullstein brothers, Leopold withdrew from the family business and founded his own paper wholesaler in Berlin in 1855. Also in 1871 he joined the Society of Friends . From 1871 to 1877 he was politically active in the Berlin city council.

After leaving office, he founded Ullstein Verlag , having acquired the “Neue Berliner Tagblatt”, the associated printing company “Stahl und Assmann” and the “Berliner Zeitung”. In 1894 Ullstein bought the " Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung ", founded in 1892 , which he developed into the most important German weekly newspaper .

Ullstein-Verlag was the mouthpiece of its time for liberal and Bismarck-critical politics. Innovations made the company successful. The first German children's magazine was published with “ Der hehre Fridolin ”, fashion magazines with the slogan “Be thrifty Brigitte, take Ullstein cuts” were popular, the Berliner Zeitung offered a lunchtime edition, and the publisher temporarily owned the world's fastest rotary presses. The Vossische Zeitung , which is internationally relevant in Germany alongside the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt , had belonged to the Ullstein publishing house since 1914. Leopold Ullstein's direct competitors on the Berlin and German newspaper market were the publishers August Scherl and Rudolf Mosse .

Ullstein died in 1899 as a successful, respected newspaper publisher. His publishing house employed 1,600 people at that time, his sons continued the business and founded the Ullstein book publishing house in 1903 and Propylaen publishing house in 1919 . Ullstein had five sons: Hans, Louis , Franz, Rudolf and Hermann Ullstein . Franz was married to Rosa Goldschmidt, Ernst Graefenberg's ex-wife . In her third marriage she married Armin Wolrad Graf von Waldeck . She became known as a writer under the name Rosie Waldeck .

tomb

Ullstein was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin Schönhauser Allee in field E, GA.

Honors

The Ullsteinstraße and then the Ullsteinstraße underground station in Berlin-Tempelhof bear his name, as do a vocational school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and a secondary school in Fürth.

literature

• Ellen Fischer: Leopold Ullstein (1826–1899). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 163-171.
• Peter de Mendelssohn : Berlin newspaper city. People and Powers in the History of the German Press Berlin. Ullstein, Berlin 1959 (revised and expanded edition. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-550-07496-4 ).
• Sten Nadolny : Ullstein novel. Novel. Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-550-08414-5 (paperback edition: (= Ullstein 26986). Ullstein, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-26986-3 ), (fiction, - reviews at perlentaucher.de ) .
• Volker Title: Citizenship and the Jewish World: Ullstein's Fürth Roots. In: David Oels, Ute Schneider (Ed.): The whole publishing house is simply a candy dish. Ullstein in the first half of the 20th century. De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-033721-1 , pp. 365–387.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Ullstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Leopold Ullstein in the catalog of the German National Library