The Austro-British publisher and diplomat Lord George Weidenfeld is dead. He died on Wednesday morning at the age of 96 years, told the Axel Springer publishing house. He was the recipient of several international awards. Born in Vienna, had fled at the time of the Nazi dictatorship to England.
Lord George Weidenfeld is one of the politically most influential publishers of his time. He was born in 1919 as Arthur George Weidenfeld. In 1938, after the arrest of his father, he fled to Britain and worked for the BBC. In 1946 he became a British citizen. In 1948 he founded with Nigel Nicolson, the publishing house Weidenfeld & amp; Nicolson in London, which flourished especially after the publication of Nabokov’s “Lolita”.1948 in the creation of Israel, Weidenfeld, who was of Jewish origin, adviser to the Israeli government, and in 1949 for one year Head of Cabinet of the first President of the new state, Chaim Weizmann.
Weidenfeld was close was Adviser to the British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on whose proposal he was raised to the peerage in 1976 and received a seat in the upper house. With its “George dinners” he gathered several personalities from public life in his apartment on the banks of the Thames. His book on the Nazi propaganda (“The Goebbels Experiment” in 1942, along with Derrick Sington) was the first comprehensive study of the Nazi propaganda machine (Click here to read an interview with Lord Weidenfeld about the book).
Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner-dedicated Weidenfeld 2009. ARD film “My friend George Weidenfeld”. The “George Weidenfeld Bursary” for the exchange of German and British journalists is named after him.
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