Alfred Hugenberg (* 19. June 1865 in Hanover; "† 12. March 1951 in (with Rinteln)) were an entrepreneur and a politician. It originally controlled the medium landscape of the Weimar Republic by a large number from to the Scherl company belonging newspapers and publishing houses and by the largest film company UfA - an establishment Ludendorffs -, which it controlled.

Hugenberg was joint founder of the allGerman federation. Starting from 1894 it was busy in the settlement commission in floats in leading function, whose task was it to operate the settlement from German families to. After further stations of its career it led from 1909 to 1918 than chairmen of the board of directors of the company Krupp their financings.

Since 1918 was it influential member of the DNVP (German national people's party), whose goals - which removal of the Weimar Republic and re-establishment of the monarchy - of its medium company, which "„Hugenbergkonzern so mentioned was supported "“. Since 1928 Hugenberg party chairman was and led the party, after a phase the willing to cooperate shank between 1925 and 1928, in a direction of the fundamental opposition and co-operation with the rising national socialists.

Hugenberg had taken over the second largest citizen of Berlin Scherl publishing house with its German national adjustment.

He administered and distributed the funds of the Ruhr drawer, which were distributed to political parties. He was founder of the quadripartite committee.

The newspapers Hugenbergs unfolded their effect particularly in the world economic crisis, which began in the year 1929. This had direct influence on the seizure of power of the national socialists 1933. In June 1929 he learned Adolf Hitler on switching of Paul fears for to know. On 30 January 1933 Hitler appointed it as a Minister for economics, agriculture and nutrition into his first cabinet. Hugenberg withdrew however already on 26 June 1933 from all Minister and party offices. As "„a guest "“the NSDAP it to 1945 realm tag member remained. Like so many the stirrup owner of Hitler it played no more role in the further process of the National Socialist dictatorship, probably however the press landscape concentrated by Hugenberg. The majority was taken over by LV publishing houses, so the monopolyistic, NSDAP near Franz rather publishing house.

After the war Hugenberg of the British one interned. 1947 ended its Entnazifizierung in several appointment procedures provisionally with the classification "„less "“, whereby the court in the view of its advanced age assumed from it no further political manipulation would be to be expected more. In March 2005 the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) in Leipzig confirmed the role of Hugenbergs as a Wegbereiter of the National Socialist rule. During a process around the 1945 of Soviet crew power manor in Uhsmannsdorf expropriated the court with white water in the Oberlausitz, judged the fact that Hugenberg gave "„substantial support to the National Socialist system "“and refused therefore the demand of its descendants on remuneration.

See also

• Press history
• Newspaper
• Newspaper second-hand bookshop
• Newspaper museum

Literature

• Peter de Mendelssohn: Newspaper city Berlin: Humans and powers in the history of the German press Berlin. Ullstein, 1959, 2. , over work. and erw. Aufl. Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein: 1982.
• George honey man, capital crime or the case of the secret advice Hugenberg, Berlin 1976

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