Max Wiessner

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Max Ernst Wiessner (born March 29, 1885 in Sachsenburg (Frankenberg) ; † February 12, 1946 in special camp No. 9 Fünfeichen ) was a German newspaper publisher .

Life

Born the son of a landowner, Wiessner studied natural history , history and economics in Berlin after attending the secondary school in Freiberg . During his studies he became a member of the Gothia Charlottenburg fraternity in 1904 , later of the Hansea Hamburg fraternity in 1926 and of the Neogermania Berlin fraternity in 1934 .

After completing his studies, he worked as a journalist and private secretary , later as the political editor of the Freisinnige Zeitung and for 15 years in the Berlin editorial team of the Frankfurter Zeitung , which he also represented in the Weimar National Assembly . From 1919 to 1920 he was Reich Chairman of the German Young Democrats . From 1920 to 1921 he headed the Berlin office of the Hamburger Fremdblatt and then became the publishing director at its headquarters in Hamburg . In 1924 he became a partner and managing director of the Hamburger Fremdblatt, Broschek und Co. mbh.

During the First World War he worked in the press department of the Reich Office of the Interior . In 1923 he was appointed Ministerial Director of the Press Department of the Reich Government by Gustav Stresemann . At the Genoa Conference he accompanied Walther Rathenau on a special political mission. In 1924 he became chairman of the employers' association of the German newspaper industry, Landesverband Hamburg. In 1929 he became chairman of the German international office at the University of Hamburg .

On the basis of an order from Walter Funk , he prepared an economic report on the Ullstein Verlag , which is owned by the Jewish Ullstein family , with the help of which it was expropriated and continued as a German publishing house from 1937 . Wiessner worked for this, in 1945 as operator .

Wiessner did not belong to any party and was a member of a Masonic lodge .

Honors

  • 1929: Honorary coin of the University of Hamburg for his services to the exchange of German and foreign students.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: politicians , subband 6: T-Z . University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8253-5063-5 , p. 306 f.