Engine criticism
Motor Criticism was a progressive automobile magazine that appeared between 1922 and 1945. The forerunner was the magazine Klein-Motor-Sport from 1922 to 1928. After 1945 the paper was combined with the Motor-Rundschau , which in turn was sold to the magazine Mot and was published under the title Mot during the 1960s . Auto review appeared.
history
The journal Small-engine sports was in 1922 by civil engineer Oscar Ursinus established and reported on motorcycles and small cars.
In 1927 the H. Bechhold publishing house in Frankfurt am Main took over the unprofitable magazine and appointed Josef Ganz , a young progressive engineer and critical automobile journalist, as editor-in-chief. This used Klein-Motor-Sport as a platform to criticize heavy, unsafe and old-fashioned cars and to advertise new, innovative designs. The magazine quickly gained prestige and influence and was appropriately renamed Motor Critique in January 1929 .
Even Frank Arnau worked for the magazine by all-published special issues together with Joseph, the "exclusively, to revelations ' and detection of alleged bad conditions at certain facilities of the auto industry" involved.
The head of Volkswagen in the post-war period, Heinrich Nordhoff , later said (translated from English): "With the passion of a missionary, Josef Ganz attacked the old and established automobile companies with sharp irony in his criticism of engines." These companies defended themselves against engine -Criticism with lawsuits, defamation campaigns and advertising boycott. However, this increased the awareness of the magazine and made Josef Ganz one of the leading independent thought leaders in the automotive sector.
After the seizure of power, the Gestapo forced Josef Ganz to resign in 1933 because of his Jewish origins. His colleague Georg Ising took over the post and remained editor-in-chief until the magazine was discontinued at the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Individual evidence
- ^ A revolver journalist. In: Salzburger Volksblatt , May 27, 1933, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ A Revelation of a Secret Love. In: LIFE International , October 24, 1960, p. 73.