Theo Oppermann (publisher)

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Theo Oppermann (born January 15, 1893 in Wunstorf , Province of Hanover ; † April 21, 1974 ibid.) Was a German entrepreneur, printer , newspaper publisher , publisher and editor-in-chief .

Life

Theo Oppermann was born in Wunstorf in the late founding period of the German Empire as the son of the newspaper publisher Hermann Oppermann from Hanover , who had been running the Hermann Oppermann publishing house of the same name since 1856 in the former royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover and later the Wunstorfer Stadt- und newspaper, which was founded in 1890 Landbote, Generalanzeiger for Wunstorf and the surrounding area in 1892, which he made the traditional Wunstorfer Zeitung . As early as 1900, the newspaper had a publishing house with its own print shop at Südstrasse 30 in Wunstorf , where Theo Oppermann would later also work.

After the writer Ernst Jünger , who attended the Scharnhorst secondary school in Wunstorf from 1907 to 1911 , became a member of the Wunstorf local group of the wandering bird in 1911 and later wrote about the lives of young people in his novel Die Zwille , Theo Oppermann - also a former member - claimed des Wandervogels - Jünger's novel process the author's autobiographical experiences from his time in Wunstorf. Jünger also reported later on his meetings with former migrant birds at Oppermann in Wunstorf.

After Theo Oppermann had also finished school and completed an apprenticeship, he then worked in various companies and for several newspapers, and during this time also attended the Hanover School of Applied Arts .

During the First World War , Oppermann volunteered at the front, while his father became almost completely blind and was soon unable to run the newspaper business. Therefore, in 1924, the father handed the business over to his brother-in-law Hans Leddin and his son Theo. During the time of National Socialism , Theo Oppermann rose as editor and editor-in-chief of the Wunstorfer Zeitung through anti-Semitic articles about others, wrote about "the Jews " in the national sense as the "most depraved people of all times" until the end of the Second World War by the Allies in 1945 this agitation put a temporary end. But already under the British military authorities , Theo Oppermann was able to become active again at Südstrasse 30 in Wunstorf from 1946, initially with the newspaper Der Niedersachsen, published for Neustadt am Rübenberge .

At the beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Wunstorfer Zeitung was also able to appear again in 1949, which, after Hans Leddin left almost at the same time, was then continued by Theo Oppermann alone. In 1959, Oppermann also took over the printing company Oppermann & Leddin KG .

In the 1960s, Theo Oppermann's publishing house also published the Neustadt am Rübenberge-related newspaper Neustädter Kreis-Anzeiger or titles such as Die See-Provinz .

As a publisher, Theo Oppermanns also showed great interest in the post-war period , especially in the publication of local publications. In 1968, the Association of Northwest German Newspaper Publishers had therefore proposed the publisher of the Wunstorfer Zeitung to be awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit , as Oppermann had “devoted himself particularly to serving his homeland”. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture only found out about Oppermann's anti-Semitic newspaper articles from the time of the Third Reich on the day before the medal was already being awarded - and then canceled the award at short notice. The failure to honor his person designated Oppermann subsequently in his paper as "cold-blooded intentional defamation " and closed his newspaper article with the words

"The worst enemy in the whole country, that is and remains the informer ."

Klaus Oppermann

Theo Oppermann's son Klaus Oppermann (* around 1944; † March 9, 2008) began his journalistic career in the Wunstorfer Zeitung run by his father and then completed a traineeship at the Hannoversche Rundschau . He then worked for the Hanover press before finally switching to the Leine-Zeitung as editor-in-chief . Klaus Oppermann was a "personal member of the Association of Northwest German Newspaper Publishers". In 2003 he retired.

Theo Oppermann, printing and publishing house EG

The company Theo Oppermann, printing and publishing EC based in Wunstorf most recently served as Registered cooperative at the Hanover court in the commercial register under the number HRA 1138 and has been deleted there.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ikaros lives! The life story of a German: Karl Jato, the world's first powered pilot , Wunstorf [Hanover]: Oppermann & Leddin, 1933
  • The Cup and other stories from Wunstorf, collected by Theo Oppermann , Wunstorf: Verlag Wunstorfer Zeitung, 1961
  • 75 years of the Wunstorfer Zeitung. 1887–1962 , Wunstorf 1962
  • Friedrich Barenscheer , Theo Oppermann: Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty and Mariensee (= Calenberger Blätter , Vol. 2), Wunstorf: Oppermann, 1963
  • Theo Oppermann, Werner Schwippert (Ill.): Landscape between Deister and Steinhuder Meer. Pictures of the homeland - drawings and linocuts , 58 illustrated pages, Wunstorf: Oppermann, 1968

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Compare Der Druckspiegel , Vol. 23, 1968, issues 1–4, p. 50; Preview over google books
  2. a b c d o.V. : Honors , in: Der Spiegel , issue 28/1968 of July 8, 1967; without a page number in the online version on the spiegel.de page
  3. Biography - Theo Oppermann, Nazi functionary and anti-Semitic agitator In: November pogrome 1938 in Lower Saxony. Wunstorf , Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, Celle 2018.
  4. a b c Compare Der Druckspiegel , vol. 17, issues 1-6 from 1962, p. 51; Preview over google books
  5. Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  6. The German press. Newspapers and magazines , Ed .: Institute for Journalism at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1961, p. 197; Preview over google books
  7. Heimo Schwilk (Ed.): Ernst Jünger. Life and work in pictures and texts , ed. and annotated by Heimo Schwilk, revised and expanded new edition, e-book of the 1st edition of the first edition 2014 of the print edition, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-10663-3 , p. 326 and others .; Preview over google books
  8. Barbara Stambolis , Jürgen Reulecke , Birgit Neumann (eds.): Youth moved. Essays on autobiographical texts by Werner Heisenberg, Robert Jungk and many others , Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0004-1 , p. 385; Preview over google books
  9. ^ O. V .: Guide for Press and Advertising , Vol. 23, Stamm-Verlag, 1970; Preview over google books
  10. Willy Stamm (ed.): The guide for press and advertising , Essen-Stadtwald: Stamm, 1966, ISSN 0075-8728, p. 60; Preview over google books
  11. ↑ top v .: Klaus Oppermann dead , short vita on the website of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) [undated], last accessed on November 30, 2017
  12. Compare the information on the website of the Moneyhouse business information service .