Viktor Muckel

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Viktor Karl Maria Muckel (born January 22, 1904 in Mönchengladbach ; † (before May 27) 1981 ) was a German lawyer, NSDAP district manager and publishing director.

Life

Origin and career before 1933

Viktor Muckel was the son of the factory owner Mathias Hubert Muckel and his wife Caroline, née Poos von Genabeck. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Mönchengladbach and passed the school-leaving examination there at Easter 1923 . He then completed an apprenticeship in a bank and completed an editorial and publishing training course. From 1927 he studied law at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate there in 1932 with a legal history study of press censorship to Dr. jur. In the same year Muckel joined the NSDAP and the Reiter-SA . He was now full-time editor in Rheydt for the local edition of the NS-Kampfblattes Volksparole im Gau Düsseldorf , the Bergischer Beobachter ; He had already written for the central Düsseldorf edition of this Nazi newspaper.

time of the nationalsocialism

In the Bergischer Beobachter on June 30, 1933, Muckel drew a balance sheet of the Nazi press work before the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists under the title Three Years of NS Press in the Gau Düsseldorf , according to which the actual achievement of NS press work until 1933 consisted of the To oppose “red plague, troubled by Jewish profit hunters” and with the “people's slogan [to] carry the truth to the German people”.

In 1934 Muckel started a family. In 1934 he married Margarete, nee Hopf. The couple had a son.

In 1935 he became the director of the publishing house now Rheinische Zeitung country renamed People's slogan . There he propagated in an article dated April 2, 1936 that National Socialist newspapers were primarily “not an economic enterprise, but an instrument for political education. The men in this publishing house always feel like political soldiers. ”In addition, from 1936 onwards he acted as “ Gauamtsleiter without official area ”in Düsseldorf, subordinate to Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian .

In 1939 he became a soldier in World War II , but returned to the “press front” in the same year after being wounded. After the administrative office of the Reichsleiter for the press of the NSDAP began to print German-language newspapers for the occupied territories, whose customers were primarily the Wehrmacht, occupation authorities and German companies, Muckel received specific tasks in this context. He was responsible for establishing the Brussels newspaper (1940) and the Paris newspaper (1941). In 1943 he became director of Dechenne Vertriebs AG in Brussels, before returning to work for the Düsseldorf Rheinische Landeszeitung shortly before the end of the war .

post war period

After the end of the war, Muckel was denazified without any professional restrictions . The Spruchkammer Dusseldorf came due to various " Persil notes " and the questioning Muckels on 17 August 1949 concluded that this was "not an activist emerged". A statement by the former publishing secretary of the Brussels newspaper, which certified that he had employed her despite his knowledge of her Jewish origins, was particularly favorable for Muckel . Like the head of advertising for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Erwin Finkenzeller , Muckel joined the management level of this newspaper at the suggestion of the FAZ founder Erich Welter . While Finkenzeller was responsible for the advertising business, Muckel took over the areas of sales and advertising, initially as an "independent publishing consultant" and then as one of the publishing directors.

His first wife Margarete died in 1959. He married his second wife Charlotte, née Huf, in 1965.

Muckel is the inventor of the most long-lived and best-known advertising slogan of the FAZ “ There's always a clever head behind it ”. This slogan was the defining advertising slogan of the FAZ as early as 1964 , when it exceeded the circulation of the competing daily newspaper Die Welt for the first time .

On the occasion of Muckel's death in 1981, the FAZ described him in an obituary dated May 27, 1981 as one of those commercial and entrepreneurial personalities "who live strongly on intuition, who prepare and make their decisions with a sure sense of what is now and what is to come".

Fonts

  • The development of censorship in Cologne. Triltsch, Würzburg 1932 (= University of Cologne, legal dissertation).

literature

  • Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister , Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47597-3 , pp. 35–86.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 417.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ resume in Muckels Dissertation: The development of censorship in Cologne. Triltsch, Würzburg 1932, p. 58.
  2. ↑ a b c Who is who? - The German who's who. Volume 16, Arani, 1970, p. 876.
  3. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister, Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Munich 2002, pp. 35–86, here pp. 55 and P. 273, note 104 and 108.
  4. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister, Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Munich 2002, pp. 35–86, here pp. 55 and P. 273, note 104.
  5. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 55 and p. 273, notes 105–107.
  6. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P.56.
  7. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 56 and P. 273, note 113.
  8. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P.56.
  9. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. P. 9 and P.56.
  10. ↑ Consolation from overseas. PRESS . In: Der Spiegel No. 22 of May 27, 1964.
  11. ↑ Quoted from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, p. 417.
personal data
SURNAME Muckel, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muckel, Viktor Karl Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, NSDAP district manager and publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH 1981