Manfred Pahl-Rugenstein

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Manfred Pahl-Rugenstein (born April 29, 1910 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German publisher .

Life

The Abitur in Hamburg was followed by a commercial apprenticeship before Pahl-Rugenstein turned to studying art history .

After the Second World War , his involvement in the peace movement against rearmament and against the entry of the Federal Republic into NATO began. Together with Paul Neuhöffer, Karl Graf von Westphalen and Hermann Etzel , he founded the political journal Blätter for German and international politics in November 1956 . He was a member of the magazine's editorial team from the beginning until his death. In the following year 1957 the Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag was founded in Cologne, which he led until 1983 and which was partly financed by the GDR state party SED . He then remained a partner until the publishing house had to file for bankruptcy in 1989 after the SED funding ended.

Pahl-Rugenstein was a member of the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection in Berlin. He was married and had a daughter.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Rathgen: Books for Peace in millions of copies. 30th anniversary for Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag in Cologne. Interview with the managing director and head of the publishing house Paul Neuhöffer . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . tape 154 . Leipzig February 3, 1987, p. 77-80 .
personal data
SURNAME Pahl-Rugenstein, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1990
Place of death Berlin