The Cologne publisher Alfred Neven DuMont is dead. This was announced by the media house M. DuMont on Sunday. The publisher and longtime chairman of the publishing house, died on Saturday at the age of 88 years
As a publisher, he was a veteran, as editor a courageous patriarch. Cologne Journalist Alfred Neven DuMont is dead. The editor and longtime chairman of the publishing house died Saturday at the age of 88 years, as the media house M. DuMont (MDS) announced on Sunday. Neven DuMont was considered a patriarch with great influence and one of the last major publisher personalities of the postwar period in Germany. Named after his family media company he coined decades. Politicians paid tribute to him as an influential character in its industry and dedicated fighters in public debate.
Neven DuMont was born the son of a traditional Cologne newspaper dynasty and was publisher in the eleventh generation. Although he had established himself in Munich as an actor and assistant director, he went to the USA to study the media essence. In 1953 he entered the publishing house of his father and took over the journalistic line at the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”.
Neven DuMont founded “Express” mid-1960
The tabloid “Express” Neven DuMont founded the mid-1960s. He had “significantly ‘, influencing the fate of newspapers, especially the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” said the MDS Chairman Christian DuMont Schütte. “The loss of my long-standing partner hits me hard.”
Culture Minister Monika Grütters (CDU) stated that the deceased had been a “profiled leading figure of the creative publishing”. The North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Finance Norbert Walter-Borjans (SPD) described him as “a landmark in the German media landscape.” He had interfered with their commitment to public debate.
commitment to democracy, freedom and human rights
Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) called Neven DuMonts commitment to democracy, freedom and Human Rights as an example. Berlin’s mayor Michael Müller (SPD) revealed that the quality of journalism have the Publisher always at heart.
Cologne Mayor Jürgen Roters described the deceased, who was an honorary citizen of the city, a man with almost boundless creative power , Neven DuMont had significantly affected the reputation of Cologne as a leading media and newspaper metropolis. “We bow to his life’s work.”
Cologne Cardinal Woelki praised the newspaper publishers
The Cologne Cardinal Rainer Woelki praised the newspaper editor in “Domradio” as an important personality. Also impressed the charitable commitment DuMonts that he had made in Cologne and especially in a number of projects in Africa.
WDR director Tom Buhrow have him called DuMont inter alia, a “visionary”. The personal encounters with him were impressive. “I will miss him as an interlocutor much.”
The group includes, among others, the book publisher DuMont
appear in the MDS group today next to “Express” and “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” the “Kölnische Rundschau”, the “Berliner Zeitung”, the “Central German newspaper”, the “Hamburger Morgenpost”, the “Berliner Zeitung” and the “Berliner Kurier”. The group also include the publishing house DuMont and investments in radio and television and advertising papers.
Management and Editor in Chief of dpa “With Alfred Neven DuMont, the German press landscape one of their outstanding entrepreneurs lose”, paid tribute to the deceased Cologne publisher. “The German Press Agency he was associated as an always constructive, but also critical companion.”
Neven DuMont survived by his wife and two children
Neven DuMont was until his death the “One Lord, one helmsman, one who sets the direction: been when the you’ve known him to be” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger “in tribute to him remembers. And even as the forces subsided, the voice grew quieter and breathing was difficult, he has spoken of the future. “
He is survived by his wife Hedwig, nee Princess of Auersperg, and his children Isabella (47) and Konstantin (45). The eldest son of the couple, Markus, an artist died. 1995
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