Imprimatur GmbH

The imprimatur GmbH was a company on the Carl Bosch, CEO of IG Colors financially supported Frankfurter Zeitung after 1930. The renowned newspaper was then caught in a financial emergency, and made heavy losses. About the imprimatur Bosch was able to support the newspaper without it being exhibited.

The imprimatur was founded in 1900 by Rudolf and Hermann Ullsteinhaus. They sold the company in 1924 to two investors, one of whom was Dr. Hermann Hummel, the supervisory board of IG Colors, which was in 1930 the sole shareholder of imprimatur.

Between the Simon family - sun man who belonged to the Frankfurter Zeitung, Bosch and Hummel, Bosch's close confidants, 1929, the following agreement was signed on 29 April: The imprimatur takes over 48 percent of the share capital of two million Reichsmarks on the Frankfurt Societäts- Printing House, in the Frankfurter Zeitung appears. The Simon family - sun man remain 51 percent. Hummel joined the Supervisory Board of the Frankfurt Societäts printing company in June 1929.

The FZ wrote on 29 April 1929 in their own right: " To make the Frankfurter Zeitung ', regardless of the percentage ownership by individual persons and independent of the contingencies that might arise due to inheritance or the like, is rather planned to increase the shareholding in a foundation or a body of similar nature together. "

Neither the board of Societäts- printing still on the board of IG Farben, the support has been known in all details. Bosch probably had a IG Farben funds for personal space, from which he compensated the losses of Societäts printing company.

Weblink

• N.N.: Imprimatur GmbH. In http://www.economypoint.org/.17.2.2011.

• Media (Frankfurt am Main )
• Former company (Hessen)