Willi Bischoff

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Willi Bischoff (born July 9, 1886 in Eisenach , † after 1933) was a German publisher and association official .

Life

After attending secondary schools, Bischoff learned the trade of bookseller in Sonneberg . He then worked for various publishing houses. From 1914 he volunteered in the First World War and was seriously wounded in July 1915 near Kovno . After his discharge from the army in 1917, he became the managing director of the Daily Rundschau . When Hugo Stinnes bought this newspaper in 1922, Bischoff left the company and founded Widder-Verlag , which he later merged with Brunnen-Verlag (Berlin) , which he acquired in 1923 . In 1924, Bischoff was indicted before the State Court of Justice for disdain for the republic and insulting Reich President Friedrich Ebert , but due to an amnesty by the new Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , there was no conviction.

Since May 1, 1930, Bischoff was a member of the NSDAP (membership number: 237377). From the same year the program magazine Der Deutsche Sender appeared in his Widder-Verlag , the organ of the right-wing Reich Association of German Broadcasting Participants, in whose founding he was involved. In 1932, Bischoff also took over the Protestant radio magazine Der Rundfunkehler and founded his own publishing house for it.

After 1933, Bischoff became leader of the Reich Association of German Magazine Publishers , a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Press Chamber and the Advertising Council of German Business . In his publishing house appeared u. a. from January 1936 to July 1944 the author's magazine of the Reichsschrifttumskammer Der deutsche writer .

Nothing is known about his further life.

Publications

  • The task of the radio press in the new state . In: Die Zeitschrift 1933 issue 4/5, pp. 42–46.
  • The position of the magazine in the general book trade . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel Volume 101 (1934), No. 98, p. 11.

literature

  • The German Leader Lexicon , Otto Stollberg Verlag, Berlin 1934, p. 57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Würffel: Encyclopedia German publishers of A-Z . Verlag Grotesk, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-9803147-1-5 , p. 123.
  2. ^ Thomas Bauer: Deutsche Programmpresse 1923 to 1941. Origin, development and continuity of the radio magazines. Saur, Munich et al. 1993, ( Rundfunkstudien. Volume 6), ISBN 3-598-21575-4 , p. 352 (fn. 44) with reference to the personnel file in the former Berlin Document Center .
  3. ^ Thomas Bauer: Deutsche Programmpresse 1923 to 1941. Origin, development and continuity of the radio magazines. Saur, Munich et al. 1993, ( Rundfunkstudien. Volume 6), ISBN 3-598-21575-4 , p. 148.
  4. ^ Thomas Bauer: Deutsche Programmpresse 1923 to 1941. Origin, development and continuity of the radio magazines. Saur, Munich et al. 1993, ( Rundfunkstudien. Volume 6), ISBN 3-598-21575-4 , p. 152.
  5. ^ Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Huegel: German literary journals 1880-1945: A repertory . 5 volumes, Ed .: German Literature Archive, Publisher: KG Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10645-9
personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH after 1934