Philipp Kühner

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Philipp Wilhelm Kühner (born October 7, 1858 in Landau in the Palatinate , † May 11, 1922 in Eisenach ) was a German publisher , journalist and politician .

Life

Kühner was born in 1858 as the son of a concert master. He attended the High School of his hometown and studied after high school philosophy and economics . After working as an editor in Nuremberg , Metz and Erfurt , he settled in Eisenach in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1922. In 1886 he married Anna Ludwig, with whom he had two children.

A street in Eisenach is named after him, and a grave of honor in Eisenach's main cemetery commemorates him.

Act

After working for the Nürnberger Tageblatt and the Lothringer Zeitung , Kühner became editor-in-chief of the Eisenacher Tagespost in 1883 and in 1886 the owner of the publishing house in which the newspaper appeared. Under his leadership, the Eisenacher Tagespost developed into a left-liberal newspaper and the most widely read newspaper in West Thuringia . After his death in 1922, the company was continued by his son Felix Kühner. The Eisenacher Tagespost appeared until 1943, after the Second World War the former publishing house was only operated as a printing company.

In addition to his work as an editor and publisher, Kühner was a member of the Eisenach city ​​council from 1890 to 1919 and, during this time, an honorary city councilor for economics and property management. For the Free People's Party he sat in the state parliament of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1898 to 1904 and in 1919 as a member of the German Democratic Party in the state parliament of the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . From 1919 to 1922 he was also the Thuringian State Councilor .

Kühner was a co-founder of the Reuter Wagner Museum in Eisenach and its director from 1904. He wrote feature articles , comedies and scientific papers, some of which were published by his own publishing house. Most recently, he donated a large amount of money to the city in 1919 for the beautification of the market square.

literature

  • Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 80 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kabus, Klaudius: Philipp Kühner. On the 75th anniversary of the death of an Eisenacher by choice . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district. April issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1997, p. 30-32 .
personal data
SURNAME Kühner, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühner, Philipp Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician (DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1922
Place of death Eisenach