A veteran of the German press is dead. The editor and longtime publisher Alfred Neven DuMont chief died on Saturday at the age of 88 years. This was announced by the media house M. DuMont with on Sunday.
DuMont was considered a patriarch with great influence and one of the last major Publishers personalities of the postwar period in Germany. He was born the son of a Cologne publishing dynasty that dates back to the 17th century. Nevertheless, he moved first to the stage. DuMont was working in Munich as an actor and assistant director, before he went to the USA to study the media essence. After his return in 1953 he joined the publishing house of his father and took over the journalistic line at the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. The mid-1960s, he founded the “Express”, a long-established in the Rhineland “image” -Konkurrent.
DuMont Schauberg Group today announced the “Kölnische Rundschau”, the “Berliner Zeitung” stepping out “Central German newspaper”, the “Hamburger Morgenpost”, and the “Berliner Kurier”. The total daily circulation reached more than one million copies. The group also includes the publishing house DuMont and investments in advertising newspapers, radio and TV
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