Ursula Luebbe

Ursula Lübbe (born July 14, 1922 in Osnabrück , † August 19, 2016 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German publisher and co-owner of Bastei-Verlag .

Life

Ursula Sprenger, born in Osnabrück in 1922, came to Bergisch Gladbach as a child, attended grammar school there and then the higher commercial school in Cologne. There she worked as a secretary after graduating from school. After her apartment in Cologne was bombed out in 1943, she moved to Chemnitz, where it was bombed again. After the war ended, she came back to Osnabrück in 1945, where she met Gustav Lübbe , who was also from the Osnabrück district and who worked as a newspaper editor. Both married in 1949 and shortly afterwards moved to Bergisch Gladbach. In May 1953, husband Gustav took over the small Bastei-Verlag , founded by Ilse Tormin in 1949 and originally located next to the Cologne Bastion , as a publisher. This publisher was facing bankruptcy and had to be restructured by Lübbe. In March 1954 the publisher brought the G-Man hero " Jerry Cotton " onto the market, the most successful German-language crime novel series with 850 million copies. The daughter Cornelia Lübbe was born on February 14, 1952, and the son Stefan (1957-2014) on August 4, 1957 . In 1995, the father bequeathed 40% of his shares to his two children and 20% to his widow. In doing so, he laid the foundation for later family disputes. His widow transferred in September 2001 initially 11% of her son, in September 2002 the rest. Cornelia Lübbe-rye transferred in January 2007 its holding to her brother Stefan, who so until his death in 2014 the sole shareholder of the publishing house Lübbe was the from 1953 to 2009 had its seat in Bergisch Gladbach. Since then, his wife Birgit Lübbe has been protecting the family's interests.

Ursula Lübbe attended the Frankfurt Book Fair until the end . She died at the age of 94 in Bergisch Gladbach, where she lived.

Awards

Ursula Lübbe received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1992 and the Gold Medal of Honor in Vienna in 2004 for her services to the Republic of Austria.

Foundation, endowment

In December 2003 she founded the Ursula Lübbe Foundation to promote books as a cultural asset .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar : Power struggle decided: Stefan Lübbe becomes sole ruler . Handelsblatt , January 8, 2007.