Axel Springer

Extracted Attributes

• Founded

  1946

• Founder

  Axel Cäsar Springer and Hinrich Springer

• Key Brands

  BILD, WELT, Business Insider, POLITICO, Stepstone, AVIV Group

• Legal Form

  Societas Europaea (SE)

• Headquarters

  Berlin, Germany

• Employee Count

  More than 18,000 worldwide

• Journalistic Leitmotif

  Reconciliation of Jews and Germans and support for the State of Israel

Timeline

• Axel Springer and his father Hinrich establish Axel Springer Verlag GmbH in Hamburg. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1946-01-01

• Launch of the Hamburger Abendblatt, the first daily newspaper created by Axel Springer. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1948-01-01

• Springer moves operations from Hamburg to West Berlin as a symbolic protest against the partition of Germany. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1959-01-01

• The company's offices are bombed by the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) following years of confrontation with the New Left. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1972-05-01

• Death of founder Axel Cäsar Springer in West Berlin at the age of 73. (Source: Wikidata)

  1985-09-22

• Axel Springer enters into a licensing partnership with OpenAI for generative AI content integration. (Source: Document eb4480db-8906-408f-b8da-c7f2622c98ce)

  2023-12-01

Axel Springer

Axel Cäsar Springer (2 May 1912 – 22 September 1985) was a German publisher and founder of what is now Axel Springer SE, the largest media publishing firm in Europe. By the early 1960s his print titles dominated the West German daily press market. His Bild Zeitung became the nation's tabloid. In the late 1960s, Springer entered into confrontation with the emergent New Left. Hostile coverage of student protests and a continuing rightward drift in editorial comment were met with boycotts and printing-press blockades, and later in 1972 with the bombing of the company offices by the Red Army Faction (the "Baader Meinhof Gang"). In the late 1970s, exposés of journalistic malpractice by the investigative reporter Günter Wallraff led to Press Council reprimands. Sometimes referred to as Germany's Rupert Murdoch, Springer, with counter suits and minor divestments, was able to ride out public criticism of his editorial ethics and market dominance. Springer engaged in private diplomacy in Moscow in 1958 and, with greater recognition, in Jerusalem in 1966 and 1967. In addition to promotion and defence of the values of the "Western family of nations" and NATO, Springer declared "reconciliation of Jews and Germans and support for the vital rights of the State of Israel" to be a leitmotif of his company's journalism.

Web Search Results

• Axel Springer | Media Mogul, Publishing Giant, Journalism Innovator

  Axel Springer (born May 2, 1912, Altona, near Hamburg, Germany—died September 22, 1985, West Berlin) was a German publisher who founded Axel Springer Verlag AG, one of the largest publishing concerns in Europe. Springer was the son of a printer and publisher. After limited schooling, he worked as an apprentice in various printing and publishing concerns. He received his journalism training at a news agency and at his father’s paper, the Altonaer Nachrichten. [...] In full: : Axel Cäsar Springer Born: : May 2, 1912, Altona, near Hamburg, Germany Died: : September 22, 1985, West Berlin (aged 73) Founder: : Axel Springer Verlag AG See all related content In 1959–60 Springer moved his operations from Hamburg to West Berlin in what he intended as a symbolic protest over the partition of Germany. He also supported the state of Israel and worked to further German-Jewish reconciliation. [...] In 1945 Springer started to build his own publishing company. By the time of his death, the Axel Springer Publishing Group was publishing Die Welt, a highly regarded conservative daily newspaper; Bild-Zeitung, a sensational daily tabloid; the Hamburger Abendblatt; the Berliner Morgenpost; and other newspapers, as well as radio and television program guides. The company’s activities also included two book-publishing concerns (Ullstein and Propyläen) and an audiovisual enterprise. Quick Facts

• Axel Springer SE - Wikipedia

  Axel Springer SE (German: (/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German "Help:IPA/Standard German")) is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models and related services. Axel Springer's operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media. The company is organized as a societas Europaea (SE) publishing house and is one of the largest [...] In 1946, publisher Hinrich Springer (age 66) and his son Axel Springer (age 34) established the limited company Axel Springer Verlag GmbH. That year saw the launch of the Nordwestdeutsche Hefte and the radio and Hörzu, which was originally launched as a radio broadcast but later became a TV magazine as well. In 1948, the afternoon and evening newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt was launched, the first daily newspaper created by Axel Springer. ### 1950s [edit] [...] This article is about the European digital publishing and media company with news publications, magazines, and digital platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. For the German academic publisher, see Springer Science+Business Media. For the American academic publisher, see Springer Publishing. Axel Springer SE

• Axel Springer Facts for Kids

  Axel Cäsar Springer (born May 2, 1912 – died September 22, 1985) was a famous German publisher. He founded what is now Axel Springer SE, one of the biggest media companies in Europe. By the early 1960s, his newspapers were very popular in West Germany. His newspaper, Bild, became the country's most widely read tabloid. [...] | Springer in 1966 | | Born | Axel Cäsar Springer (1912-05-02)2 May 1912 Altona, Hamburg, German Empire | | Died | 22 September 1985(1985-09-22) (aged 73) West Berlin, West Germany | | Occupation | Business, publishing | | Spouse(s) | Martha Else Meyer (1933–1938) divorced Erna Frieda Berta Holm (1939–) divorced Rosemarie Alsen (1953–1961) divorced Helga Ludeweg (1962–) divorced Friede Springer (1978–1985) | | Children | 3 | | Relatives | Werner Lorenz (father-in-law) | [...] Axel Caesar Springer was born on May 2, 1912, in Altona, a part of Hamburg, Germany. His father, Hinrich Springer, owned a small printing and publishing company. Axel learned the printing trade there. Before World War II, his father's newspapers were sold by order of the government. Axel continued working for the company, which then printed books.

• Company - Axel Springer

  axel springer~ # Company # The Company Axel Springer is an international media and technology company. By providing information across its diverse media brands (among others BILD, WELT, Business Insider, POLITICO) and classifieds (The Stepstone Group and AVIV Group) Axel Springer empowers people to make free decisions for their lives. [...] In the tradition of its founder, who fostered journalistic and technological innovations in his time, Axel Springer SE is breaking new ground while remaining true to itself. The company is with great pace pursuing the objective of building up a fast-growing and profitable digital portfolio and to establish journalism as a successful business model also in the digital world. Along with the transformation of its established strong media brands, its own new developments and strategically-oriented [...] Today, the transformation from a traditional print media company to Europe’s leading digital publisher has been successfully accomplished. The next goal has been identified: Axel Springer wants to become global market leader in digital content and digital classifieds through accelerated growth. The company is headquartered in Berlin and employs more than 18,000 people worldwide.

• Axel Springer - Wikipedia

  Springer's son, Axel Springer Jr. (1941–1980), was the photographer and journalist "Sven Simon", and was for a period chief editor of Welt am Sonntag. In 1980, at the age of 38, he took his own life. He is perhaps best remembered for his iconic picture of Willi Brandt kneeling on 7 December 1970 before the memorial to Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw. [...] After the war, in 1946, Springer founded his own publishing company, Axel Springer GmbH, in Hamburg publishing the radio (and later TV) listings magazine Hörzu. Never having worn a uniform (thanks to asthma and diabetes) or been a member of the Nazi party (from which, by virtue of his marriage to Martha Meyer, he would have been excluded), Springer was able to obtain from the British occupation authorities a license to run a newspaper. His first daily was the Hamburger Abendblatt. Competing in [...] 1912 births 1985 deaths Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German newspaper founders 20th-century German newspaper publishers (people) "Category:20th-century German newspaper publishers (people)") German mass media owners People from Altona, Hamburg Businesspeople from Berlin 20th-century German journalists German male journalists Axel Springer SE Springer family Bild people Berliner Morgenpost Berliner Morgenpost people

• Award

  Ernst Reuter Medal

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  editor

• Citizenship

  Germany

• Date Of Birth

  5/2/1912

• Date Of Death

  9/22/1985

• Place Of Birth

  Altona

• Place Of Death

  West Berlin