Walter Schöne

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Paul Walter Schöne (born June 5, 1885 in Dresden , † April 27, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German newspaper scholar.

Life

Born as the son of a railway inspector, Walter Schöne became an accessist in the Dresden administration in 1902. From 1909 to 1912 he studied political science at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen. In 1911 he became a member of the Corps Staufia Leipzig. In 1912 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. As a result he became a scientific assistant at the statistical office of the city of Leipzig and the Chamber of Commerce in Plauen. In 1914 he became a councilor in the statistical office of the city of Leipzig. After completing his habilitation in newspaper studies with Karl Bücher at the University of Leipzig in 1922, he worked for the city of Leipzig's economic and press office from 1922 to 1933. In 1933 he was assigned the scientific preparation for the Gutenberg Reich Exhibition in 1940 . In the same year he joined the NSDAP . In 1934 he was appointed to the municipal news committee of the German Municipal Association. In 1939 he was appointed head of the Leipzig Research Center for Early History of the newspaper in the German Association of Newspapers. The University of Leipzig, where he taught newspaper studies from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1928 as a private lecturer in the Philological and Historical Department of the Philosophical Faculty , appointed him in 1940 as a non-scheduled adjunct professor for newspaper studies and gave him a teaching position on the early history of the press.

Schöne was married to Henriette Schöne-Rieck. They had a son.

Fonts

  • The beginnings of the Dresden newspaper industry in the 18th century , 1912
  • Newspaper and Statistics. A study of the influence of the periodical press on the emergence and development of political science literature, especially journalism , 1924
  • The newspaper and its science , 1928
  • The German press in the first century of its existence (1609-1700) , 1939

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 4355