Carl W. Ackerman

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Carl W. Ackerman

Carl William Ackerman (January 16, 1890–October 9, 1970) was a journalist and author. He worked as a correspondent in World War I with the United Press. However, he first received public attention as the author of "Germany, The Next Republic?"^[1], a book that discussed the possibility of a successful democracy in post-Kaiser Germany. When the book was printed in 1917, at the height of World War I, this sentiment was considered quite radical.

As a correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1919, Ackerman published an English edition of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". All references to Jews were replaced with references to Bolshevists, resulting in an anti-Bolshevist tract.

Ackerman married Hilda Ackerman in 1922, and was the father of Josef, William, and Gabriel Ackerman.

In 1931 Ackerman was approached to act first as the director, and later as the first dean, of Columbia University's School of Journalism (the home of many of journalism's most precious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize). In this position he continued to be controversial, going so far as to accuse the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt of fascism, and attempts to control journalism.^[2] Although reclusive, he worked to establish the school as one of the foremost schools of journalism in the nation.

In 1954, after the death of his wife, Ackerman set in motion his resignation from the university, and after Columbia found a replacement he resigned. He was known to visit only occasionally until his death in 1970.