Wilhelm Ackermann (journalist)
Wilhelm Ackermann (born May 3, 1887 in Cologne , † 1959 ) was a German journalist .
Life
As the son of the senior secretary of the railway, Simon Ackermann, and his wife Anna Schiffers, he began studying economics in Berlin and Tübingen . Ackermann gained his first practical experience in journalism at the newspaper Tübinger Chronik . He then became editor-in-chief of the Hessische Landeszeitung in Darmstadt . The move to Berlin followed, where he became a political confidante of Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim .
On April 1, 1917, he took over the management of domestic political reporting at the national conservative Deutsche Zeitung . On January 1, 1918, Ackermann switched to the German daily newspaper as editor , where he was initially also responsible for the domestic affairs department and in 1920 as editor-in-chief .
From 1930 he was chairman of the Reich Association of the German Press . On April 30, 1933 Otto Dietrich was elected as his successor. At the delegates' meeting that day, the association carried out the DC circuit of the German press. Ackermann publicly but carefully named the consequences:
- " As for all professions, this means a certain narrowing of the bed in which the stream of journalistic work has flowed for German journalists, but, I hope, at the same time a deepening ."
He then moved to the board of directors of the professional pension fund of the Reich Association of the German Press.
He was married to Charlotte Kleinschmidt, lived in Wünsdorf in the Teltow district in 1935 and had his offices in Berlin SW 11 at Dessauer Strasse 6-8 and Bernburger Strasse 12-13 .
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Berlin 1935, p. 6.
- Cuno Horkenbach: The German Empire from 1918 to today . Berlin 1930
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures , first volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 6, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Krings: Hitler's chief press officer. Otto Dietrich (1897–1952). A biography. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0633-2 , p. 164.
- ^ Norbert Frei, Johannes Schmitz: Journalism in the Third Reich. CH Beck, 2011. p. 26.
- ^ Norbert Frei, Johannes Schmitz: Journalism in the Third Reich. CH Beck, 2011. p. 27.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ackermann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1959 |