Georg von Holtzbrinck
Georg von Holtzbrinck ( born May 11, 1909 in House Schöpplenberg, Hagen, † April 27, 1983 in Stuttgart ) was a German publisher and bookseller.
Youth and studies
Holtzbrinck was a child of a noble estate owner in Hagen in Westphalia and had four other siblings. Formative experience of childhood was the impoverishment of the family through mismanagement and inflation. Holtzbrinck, which a law degree at Bonn and Cologne began in 1929, had to earn his own living. In 1931 he became a member of the National Socialist German Students' League ( NSDStB ). In the summer of 1930 he began working as a recruiter for the Library subscribers of entertainment and knowledge of the Union's German publishing company (Stuttgart). In 1931 he switched to entirely on the business of magazine and book advertisers. At that time he has worked with August Wilhelm locks, his longtime companion, who had since 1928, publishing representatives of the German publishing company Union ( UDV ). 1932 Holtzbrinck already earned 20,000 Reichsmarks per year ( the annual salary of Secretary of State stood at 22,000 Reichsmark ).
1933-1945
From 1934 locks and Holtzbrinck were exclusively responsible for all UDV - magazine advertising with the obligation to advertise annually 50,000 subscribers. As an additional foothold they acquired the German publisher Expedition ( Devex ) which was approved in December 1936 by the Reich Press Chamber. 1933 Holtzbrinck had already joined the Nazi party (member number 2126353 ). Locks could about the private firm Hitler (Head: Philip Bouhler ) a contract with the German Labor Front ( DAF) conclude ( at the height of its development 25 million members). The Devex now took over the distribution of DAF magazines beauty of the work and pleasure and work.
The circulation of all DAF sheets amounted in 1938 to nearly 30 million copies. With the beginning of World War II on 1 September 1939 the title beauty of the work is set, slashed the circulation of joy and work. Because of arrears of Devex against the DAF, there was a process over three instances. 1939 could Locks and Holtzbrinck texts of the Nazi author Hans Grimm ( people without space ) Print as a special band.
Sales of UVB and Devex amounted in 1942 to 1.6 million Reichsmark, Holtzbrinck taxed one years salary of 120 140 Reichsmarks. On 1 March 1943 he was drafted into the army, became a prisoner of war in 1945, for health reasons (gastric ulcer) was prematurely released into the wild, but got banned from working.
After 1945
Holtzbrinck's wife now applied for a permission to print and distribution of colored postcards. Also the distribution of books was restarted. In the denazification process the Spruchkammer Holtzbrinck sentenced in 1948 to pay a fine of 1,200 Reichsmarks, stressed his party membership and the use of his party contacts to secure the exclusive right of magazines.
After the denazification court Holtzbrinck was founded in 1948 with the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck (then under the name of German Bücherbund ) the nucleus of a company that is one of Europe's largest publishing groups today.
Despite his past, the next generation Holtzbrinck it was possible with S. Fischer and Farrar, Straus & Giroux to acquire recognized formerly Jewish publishers.
Family
Holtzbrinck had three children with his wife in 1938 geheirateten Addy von Holtzbrinck, born Griesenbeck ( born February 13, 1913 in Rummenohl; † 2005 :) Georg -Dieter, Karin and Monika; from another compound comes the son Stefan.
Others
After Georg von Holtzbrinck two awarded annually awards the Holtzbrinck publishing group are named. Since 1995, the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism since 2000. The Georg von Holtzbrinck School of Economics journalists is also named after him. After his wife's Addy von Holtzbrinck GmbH Foundation is named in Stuttgart.
Georg von Holtzbrinck was friends with the former mayor and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation, Teddy Kollek. Since then, the German publishing family supports projects for all segments of the population of the city.