Word: ullsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week occupied a strategic new foothold. Only nine years after buying his first newspaper, Hamburg-based Publisher Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer prepared to intensify his assault on the Berlin market by moving high-speed presses and an expanded staff into new quarters in the city's bustling Ullstein newspaper plant, home of prewar Germany's largest press empire. Newcomer Springer, who has already swallowed up almost half of the Ullstein papers, was also preparing for the hoped-for day when free newspapers will surge eastward in a reunified Germany...
...West Berlin last week were signs: "Die BZ ist wieder da [BZ is back again]." BZ is the House of Ullstein's tabloid Berliner Zeitung, once one of the biggest papers in Berlin with a circulation of 510,000, specializing in sports, features, entertainments and easy-to-read news. In pre-Hitler Germany, when the House of Ullstein was the largest publisher on the continent, BZ was confiscated by Hitler, along with the Ullsteins' four other dailies, five weeklies and six magazines. Last year they got some of their property back (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952), and under Karl...
Finally, through a friend, he was hired as a Middle East correspondent for the Ullstein publications of Germany. Ullstein soon sent him to Paris, then yanked him back to Berlin to become, at 25, science editor of an Ullstein newspaper. By the next year, he was also doubling as foreign editor of another, the B.Z, am Mittag (circ...
...with all of his brothers dead, Rudolf Ullstein went back to Berlin to try to get back the property. The trouble was that the sale to the Nazis had been legal, and the city of Berlin had confiscated the plants, as it had all Nazi property. Rudolf fought on anyway, fearfully flitting in & out of the plant to keep an eye on it, although always using the back door...
Last week, after a German court ordered the property restored to the family, into the U.S. High Commissioner's office tottered 77-year-old Rudolf Ullstein, on the arm of his nephew Karl. As he signed the document of restitution, tears of joy streamed down the old man's face. With his property he got problems galore-back taxes, licenses, scant and high-priced newsprint. But these will be problems for Karl and his cousins, who will run Ullstein's. For old Rudolf, victory alone was enough. "Now," said he, "I can walk through the front door...