Hermann Ullstein (born July 6, 1875, in Berlin; died November 22, 1943, in New York City) was a German Jewish publisher.

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship with a grain export company in Russia, Ullstein, youngest son of Leopold Ullstein (1826-1899), joined the family business Ullstein Verlag in 1902 and devoted himself to expanding the magazine and book department.[1] Ullstein acquired several fashion magazines and encouraged the founding of the magazines "Die Dame" and "Uhu". When the company was converted into a public limited company in 1921, he became a member of the board and deputy chairman of the board. He joined the Society of Friends as early as 1911.

In 1908, Hermann Ullstein's country house at Taunusstraße 7 in Berlin-Grunewald was completed by the Joseph Fränkel building company according to the plans of the architect Fritz Behrendt (1877-1941 or -1967).

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Ullstein family was persecuted because of their Jewish heritage. Ullstein Verlag was "Aryanised" in 1934, that is, forcibly transferred to a non-Jewish owner. [2][3]The company was renamed Deutscher Verlag in 1937 and affiliated with the NSDAP's central publishing house. Ullstein sought refuge in the USA in 1939 in New York City.[1] In 1943, Ullstein wrote about Hitler's destruction of his family's publishing house.[4][5]

In 1952, the company was returned to the Ullstein family.[6][7] Frederick Ullstein, Hermann Ullstein's son, took over the book business and managed the publishing house until 1959. In 1956 Axel Springer acquired a 26% stake in the publishing house, which he increased to 83% in 1960, and later to 100%, making Ullstein Verlag an integral part of Springer Verlag.[8][9] In 2003, the Ullstein Group was sold to the Swedish media group Bonnier and continued to operate under the name Ullstein-Buchverlage in Berlin.[10] The newspaper publishing house founded by Leopold Ullstein remained with Springer.

Ullstein died in New York City in 1943.[11]

Publications

  • Wirb und werde! Ein Lehrbuch der Reklame, Francke, Bern 1935
  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Ullstein. Simon and Schuster, New York 1943.[12]
    • Das Haus Ullstein. Übersetzung von Geoffrey Layton. Mit einem Nachwort von Martin Münzel. Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3550-08046-3. Auszüge

Literature

  • Ullstein, Hermann, in: Joseph Walk (Hrsg.): Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918–1945. München : Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4, S. 370
  • Ullstein, Hermann, in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. Band 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben. München : Saur, 1980, S. 775
  • Ullstein, Hermann. In: Ernst Fischer: Verleger, Buchhändler & Antiquare aus Deutschland und Österreich in der Emigration nach 1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. 2. Auflage. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2020, S. 524

References

  1. 1 2 "Hermann Ullstein". ULLSTEIN (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  2. ↑ "Ullstain Verlag is Aryanized.... - RareNewspapers.com". www.rarenewspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  3. ↑ Hung, Jochen (2018). "The 'Ullstein Spirit': The Ullstein Publishing House, the End of the Weimar Republic and the Making of Cold War German Identity, 1925–77". Journal of Contemporary History. 53 (1): 158–184. ISSN 0022-0094.
  4. ↑ Hirsch, Felix E. (1943-03-07). "A Publishing Empire Destroyed by Hitler; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ULLSTEIN. By Herman Ullstein. 308 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $3". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  5. ↑ "Speaking of Books --". The New York Times. 1941-08-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  6. ↑ Berndt, Juliane (2020-06-08), "Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945–52): Remigration, Ränke, Rückgabe: Der steinige Weg einer Berliner Traditionsfirma", Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945–52) (in German), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, doi:10.1515/9783110630503/html, ISBN 978-3-11-063050-3, retrieved 2023-11-05
  7. ↑ "The Ullsteins against the rest of the world". www.axelspringer.com. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  8. ↑ "Wie der Vater so der Sohn". www.axelspringer.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  9. ↑ "100. Geburtstag: Warum Axel Springer den Ullstein-Verlag kaufte - WELT". DIE WELT (in German). 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  10. ↑ "Bonnier Media Deutschland". Bonnier Books. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  11. ↑ "REFUGEES AT SERVICE FOR HERMAN ULLSTEIN; Lutheran Minister ConductsI Rites for Publisher". The New York Times. 1943-11-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  12. ↑ Ladewig, Heid; Ullstein, Herman (1944). "The Rise and Fall of the House of Ullstein". Books Abroad. 18 (1): 77. doi:10.2307/40084249. ISSN 0006-7431.
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