21 Facts About Hubert Burda

Hubert Burda is the owner, publisher and general partner of Hubert Burda Media, a global media company of more than 600 media products, including websites, print magazines and other brands.

Hubert Burda is the youngest son of the publishing couple Franz and Aenne Hubert Burda, alongside his older brothers Franz and Frieder.

Hubert Burda's father permitted him to study art history only on condition that he wait until after the age of 25 to begin.

Hubert Burda earned his doctorate in art history before the age of 26; his dissertation was titled Die Ruine in Hubert Robert's Pictures.

Hubert Burda assumed the role of sole shareholder and CEO of Hubert Burda Holding in 1987.

In 1993, Hubert Burda collaborated with Helmut Markwort to develop the news magazine Focus, a rival to Der Spiegel.

Hubert Burda is the third richest publisher in Germany, after Friede Springer and Elisabeth Mohn.

From 1987 to 1995, Hubert Burda supported the Petrarca Translator Prize for Literary Translations.

In 1999, he founded the Hubert Burda Foundation, dedicated to literature, international understanding, art, culture and science.

In 2001, Hubert Burda established the Felix Hubert Burda Foundation, dedicated to the early detection and prevention of colon cancer.

In 2005, together with the city of Offenburg, Hubert Burda donated the 2005 European Translators Award.

Hubert Burda has been decorated by German-Jewish interest groups for his promotion of German industrial reparations.

Hubert Burda has been active in building connections between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, promoting close ties with Israel and supporting the revival of Jewish life in his home city of Munich.

Hubert Burda is an Honorary Senator of the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg.

Hubert Burda co-financed the production of an English-language CD-ROM of the Shoah Foundation by Steven Spielberg.

Hubert Burda's father, Franz Hubert Burda, was a publisher of maps prior to the rise of the Nazi regime and after it took power.

At the suggestion of the CDU, Hubert Burda was a member of the 14th Federal Assembly and participated in the election of the German Federal President on 30 June 2010.

Hubert Burda holds the European Print Media Prize and the Gold Medal Freedom of Speech of the European Association of Communications Agencies.

Hubert Burda is a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Hubert Burda holds a Hermann Lenz Award for German lyrics.

In 1991, Hubert Burda married the doctor and actress Maria Furtwangler.