Franz Burda I
Franz Burda ( born February 24, 1903 in Phillipsburg, † September 30, 1986 in Offenburg, Germany ) was a German publisher and founder of the Burda publishing house.
Life and work
Burda 1927 his doctorate at the University of Erlangen with an economic-historical work on the development of the Baden - products exchanges. He married on July 9, 1931 Aenne Lemminger and was the father of three sons Franz, Frieder and Hubert.
Burda joined the mid-1930s the Nazi Party, but not engaged in politics. In 1935, the conversion of production to low- pressure technique. After 1945 Burda could quite quickly be verlegerisch active despite his former NSDAP membership. For the French occupation authorities, he printed stamps and school books. Despite the opposition of many French officers, he managed to bring the magazine Burda 1948 on the market. It came to him in good stead, that he was friends with the officer Raymond Schmittlein and the license has been issued in the name of a familiar with this straw man.
Burda was considered a patriarch of the old style and is an important personality of reconstruction after the Second World War. Unions had a hard time in his company, but he felt this and his staff always committed. So he set up as a company health insurance and a pension fund.
Burda supported several mountaineering expeditions financially.