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beginnings
1751 Vossische Zeitung launched (precursors
date from 1617)
1826 Leopold Ullstein born in Fuerth
1855 moves to Berlin
1871 Rudolf Mosse founds Annoncebureau advertising agency
1871 founds Berliner Tageblatt
1877 Leopold Ullstein founds Ullstein publishing house
1881 launches das Deutsche Reichsblatt
1883 August Scherl founds Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger
1883 launches Berlin guide
1889 launches Berliner Abendzeitung
1889 Mosse and Emil Cohn launch Berliner Morgen-Zeitung
1889 launch Volkszeitung
1890 launch die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums
1894 Scherl launches Neuesten Berliner Handels- und
Börsennachrichten
1898 Ullstein founds Berliner Morgenpost
1899 death of Leopold Ullstein
1899 Scherl launches Die Woche
1900 Mosse buys stake in Vossische Zeitung from
Müller consortium
1903 Scherl launches Der Tag
1904 buys die Gartenlaube and Sport im Bild
1904 Mosse launches Berliner Volkszeitung
1910 Scherl sells preference shares to Allgemeine Deutsche
Verlag
1912 Axel Caesar Springer born in Hamburg, subsequently
inherits father's newspaper and Hammerich & Lesser publishing
house
1913 Sal Oppenheim bank pays 10m Marks for Scherl ordinary
shares
1913 Ullstein buys remaining shares in Vossische Zeitung
1913 industrialist Alfred Hugenberg forms Telegraph-Union
wire service through merger of four news agencies
1914 Deutscher Verlagsverein (heavy industry interests)
buys Scherl shares from Oppenheim
1916 Hugenberg gains control of Scherl press group for
7m Marks
1916 founds Deutsche Lichtspiel Gesellschaft (DLG or Deulig)
1917 Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft (aka UFA) established,
absorbing DECLA, PAGU and Nordisk
1919 Neue Berliner Zeitung (later 12-Uhr-Blatt)
launched
Weimar and the 3rd Reich
1921 Ullstein & Co incorporates as Ullstein AG
1921 UFA privatised
1921 Scherl launches Montagszeitung in Berlin
1922 Ullstein merges Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung
and Berliner Abendpost
1922 Hugenberg launches Wirtschaftsstelle der Provinzpresse
(WIPRO) syndication service
1925 Paramount and
MGM lend UFA US$4m
1926 Paramount, MGM and UFA form Parufamet (Paramount-UFA-Metro)
Distribution Company
1927 Hugenberg Konzerngains control of UFA, instals Ludwig
Kitzsch as chief executive
1929 Ullstein launches Grüne Post
1933 Hugenberg becomes Minister for Agriculture in first
Hitler cabinet
1933 Ullstein family removed from Ullstein board
1934 forced to sell publishing holdings
1934 Vossische Zeitung closes
1934 Telegraph-Union merges with Wolff Telegraph Agency
as official German news agency Deutsche Nachrichten Bureau
(DNB)
1937 Ullstein AG renamed Deutscher Verlag
1937 UFA nationalised
1944 Scherl nationalised
post-war
1946 Axel Springer founds
Nordwestdeutsche Hefte newspaper and radio magazine
Hör Zu
1946 Heinz Ullstein publishes Sie womans magazine
in Berlin
1947 forms Axel Springer GmbH
1948 launches women's magazine Constanze
1948 launches daily Hamburger Abendblatt
1949 Rudolf Ullstein relaunches Berliner Morgenpost and
BZ
1952 Springer launches national tabloid Bild-Zeitung
1952 Ullstein family receives some publishing assets from
West German governmet
1953 buys Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag broadsheets
1956 launches tabloid Bild am Sonntag
Springer swallows Ullstein
1956 buys stake in Ullstein publishing group
1959 buys majority of Ullstein AG, including Berliner
Morgenpost newspaper, B.Z. and Ullstein books
1961 sells part of Constanze to Gruner+Jahr
1968 government inquiry indicates that Springer publishes
40% of West German newspapers and 20% of magazines
1976 found Cora Verlag to publish bodice rippers
1979 buys majority holding in Kunst & Technik Verlag,
inc Weltkunst and Kunstpreis-Jahrbuch annual
1984 group becomes public company
1984 Kirch buys 10% stake (later
increased to 40.05%)
1985 Axel Springer dies
2002 Kirch collapses, unbundling of relationship with
Axel Springer commences
2003 Axel Springer agrees to sell Ullstein-Heyne-List
book publishing interests to Bertelsmann subsidiary Random
House
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