Rolf Ippen
Rolf Ippen (born March 9, 1899 in Osteel ; † January 6, 1968 ) was a German newspaper publisher.
Life
Rolf Ippen was born in 1899 as the son of the East Frisian farmer and community leader of Osteel, Andreas Ippen, and his wife Elvire Rulffes on the Carolinenhof in Osteel. He studied at the University of Frankfurt and obtained his doctorate in economics and social sciences ( Dr. rer. Pol. ) With magna cum laude in 1923 . He then worked as managing director of a Bochum newspaper and a brewery. From 1923 to 1933, Ippen was managing director of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian newspaper publishers' association. From 1933 he was managing director of Theodor Reismann-Grone GmbH in Essen and from 1933 to 1943 head of the publishing house of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung after Reismann-Grone had been fired. In 1940 Ippen became director of Preussag Rüdersdorf .
After the Second World War, Ippen laid the foundations for the Westphalian publishing group. From 1949 was managing director and partner at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) in Essen. He also headed the Düsseldorfer Welt am Sonnabend GmbH, the Langenberg Kupfer- und Messingwerke GmbH and DuMont Presse GmbH. Until 1963 he was a partner in Zeitungsverlag Ruhrgebiet GmbH, which publishes the WAZ. After a shareholder dispute, he had himself paid off and instead took a temporary stake in the stocking manufacturer Schulte & Dieckhoff, and from 1966 onwards in the Emil Griebsch Graphische Betriebe publishing house.
Ippen was married twice; the first marriage had two children and the second had a son, the publisher Dirk Ippen . Rolf Ippen died of lung cancer in 1968 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Seitz (Ed.): My father and I: Celebrities tell. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-466-30968-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ippen, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German newspaper publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osteel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1968 |