Rudolf Ullstein
Rudolf Ullstein (born February 26, 1874 in Berlin ; † February 2, 1964 there ) was a German publisher .
Life
Rudolf Ullstein was the second youngest of the five Ullstein brothers who took over the newspaper publisher founded in Berlin in the 1870s and then became world-famous after the death of their father Leopold Ullstein and expanded it to become Germany's largest media company at the time.
When Leopold Ullstein died in 1899, the sons Hans , Louis , Franz , Hermann and Rudolf continued the company in the spirit of their father. Rudolf was responsible for the printing department and the technical apparatus. He was the builder of the huge Ullsteinhaus printing house in Berlin-Tempelhof .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Rudolf Ullstein lived in Berlin until 1939 and was able to emigrate to Great Britain at the last minute shortly before the start of the war , where he earned his living as a factory worker. After returning to Berlin after 1945, he managed to return the publishing house “ Aryanized ” by the Nazi rulers and continued it until the end of the 1950s. After the majority of the shares had been sold to the newspaper publisher Axel Springer at that time , the elderly Rudolf Ullstein withdrew from the business and died a little later. He was buried in the Berlin forest cemetery in Dahlem . (Dept. 2B No. 17/19)
In 1958 the Berlin sculptor Erich Fritz Reuter created an impressive bronze portrait of Rudolf Ullstein.
literature
- U 4 has 85th birthday . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/1959, for the 85th birthday
- Rudolf Ullstein died ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 3, 1964, on death
- Ullstein, Rudolf , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 350
- Ullstein, Hermann , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 775
Web links
- Rudolf Ullstein in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The sculptor Erich F. Reuter. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ullstein, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1964 |
| Place of death | Berlin |