Peter Tamm

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Peter Tamm in the uniform of the Rickmer Rickmers Honorary Captain (2008)

Peter Wilhelm Ernst Tamm (born May 12, 1928 in Hamburg ; † December 29, 2016 ) was a German journalist , manager and publisher . He became known as the longstanding CEO of Axel Springer Verlag . In decades he has amassed the world's largest private collection on shipping and naval history , which can be seen in the International Maritime Museum Hamburg .

Live and act

origin

Tamm was born into an old Hamburg seafaring family, one of his ancestors was u. a. Caspar Tamm . He attended the Eppendorf grammar school . Towards the end of the Second World War he became a midshipman to the Navy of the Armed Forces confiscated. He was trained on the sailing training ship Gorch Fock and was most recently in the rank of ensign at sea .

Springer Group

In 1948 he became a freelancer and later a ship editor for the Hamburger Abendblatt . He studied economics for five semesters at the University of Hamburg . In 1958 he switched to the publishing business of Axel Springer Verlag . In 1960 he became managing director of Ullstein Verlag . There he helped to expand the Berliner Morgenpost and the BZ. From 1962 to 1964 he was the publishing director of the Bildzeitung and deputy publishing director of Bild am Sonntag in Hamburg. In 1964 he became chairman of the board of directors of the publishing house Axel Springer Berlin. From 1968 to 1991 he was managing director of Holding Axel Springer GmbH (with sole signing authority) and sole director of Axel Springer AG . From 1971 on there were several restructurings, with Tamm always remaining in the management. In 1986 he initiated the new weekly automobile magazine Auto Bild . In 1987 he won the power struggle with Günter Prinz , who left the publishing house. In 1988 the Austrian daily Der Standard was co-founded. Further investments followed in Spain, Italy, Germany and Hungary. He turned down a position on the supervisory board in 1991 due to a dispute with his successor Günter Wille . The US business magazine Forbes listed him in 1991 as number 1 (approx. 5 million DM annual salary) among the 500 highest-paid German managers.

Specialist publisher

In 1993 he became managing director of the now defunct Gesellschaft für Medienberatung und Entwicklung GmbH . He also advanced to become a specialist publisher for military and naval history, until 2008 he was the publisher and managing partner of the Koehler / Mittler publishing group and the Hansa shipping publishing house in Hamburg.

other commitments

From 1994 he was a member of the supervisory board of the publishing house M. DuMont Schauberg . He also became chairman of the supervisory board of Hanseatische Verlags-Beteiligungs-AG .

From 2001 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Karl Gerold Foundation . He was also a member of the board of trustees of the German Cancer Aid and a member of the advisory board of the Friends of the Training of Foreign Officers at the Management Academy of the Bundeswehr eV

He was also a member of the German Society for Shipping and Naval History .

Family and private

He had been married since 1958 and had five children.

He had a long friendship with the librarian and marine historian Jürgen Rohwer .

Peter Tamm was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery , the farewell ceremony took place in the Nienstedten church .

Collection and Museum

International Maritime Museum (2008)

Until 2008, Tamm operated the Scientific Institute for Shipping and Naval History on the Elbchaussee in Hamburg-Othmarschen, which is not open to the public . The extensive collection, which he began with at the age of six, consists of around 25,000 small (scale 1: 1,250) and 900 large (mostly 1: 100) model ships, 5,000 paintings, 120,000 books and atlases, 50,000 construction plans, countless documents, historical naval uniforms and awards from the dawn of modern times to modern times, weapons, handicrafts, nautical and telecommunications equipment, furniture, menus, china, silver including maritime postage stamps and over a million photos. The collection was transferred to a new International Maritime Museum in Hamburg's HafenCity . The museum was opened on June 25, 2008 in the presence of the then Federal President Horst Köhler .

For the exhibition of its collection, the Hamburg Senate made the former Kaispeicher B in the new HafenCity available to the "Peter Tamm Sen. Foundation" free of charge for 99 years. For his part, Tamm donated his collection to the foundation free of charge. The foundation also received 30 million euros from the city of Hamburg's cultural funding for the renovation of the Kaispeicher. The Senate decided not to influence the content of the presentation. In 2005, the campaign “Artists inform politicians” (KIP) was founded against this approach. More than 80 artists took part in this campaign. The Hamburg-based actor Rolf Becker was one of the critics . After visiting the museum, however, he distanced himself from the action and its statements in an interview in May 2008.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

literature

Collection:

Web links

Commons : Peter Tamm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Bahnsen: Peter Tamm †: The man behind the success of Axel Springer . Die Welt , December 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Hans-Peter Schwarz : Axel Springer. The biography . Propylaeen, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07246-2 , p. 164.
  3. ^ Hans-Peter Schwarz : Axel Springer. The biography . Propylaea, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07246-2 , p. 140.
  4. ↑ Jan Heitmann : Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer on his 80th birthday . In: Schiff & Zeit / Panorama maritim 59 (2004), p. 44 f.
  5. ↑ Funeral service of Nienstedten Church at welt.de
  6. ↑ The grave of Peter Tamm. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  7. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Correction: After meeting the founder - Tamm Museum: Rolf Becker takes back criticism. Hamburger Abendblatt , May 23, 2008, archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 .
  8. ^ Sti: Cross of Honor in Gold for Peter Tamm . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , vol. 54, January 20, 2001, No. 17, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Britta Stahlberg: Honorary Professorship for Peter Tamm . In: Welt am Sonntag , vol. 53, August 11, 2002, No. 32, p. 70.
  10. ↑ Natalie Bombeck: Finnish Order for Peter Tamm . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , vol. 56, September 13, 2003, No. 214, p. 16.
  11. ↑ Deborah Knür: These are the Hamburgers of 2004 . In: Die Welt , vol. 59, December 17, 2004, No. 296, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Tamm, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tamm, Peter Wilhelm Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, manager and publisher, collection on shipping and naval history
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2016