Erich von Manheim

Biography
Erich von Manheim was born in Prad am Stiflersjoch, South Tyrol, a province in Italy. During his upbringing, he often liked to write short stories about the events that his brain could understand, people sometimes speculate that this is what inspired him to become a newspaper entrepreneur. After moving to Monaco in 1912 he started to fiddle around in economics, but quickly settled on social studies instead, he quickly learn to love the world of news-papers and magazines, when he moved back from Monaco to South Tyrol in 1917, he started a small news-paper business in Bolzano/Bozen together with his friend Maximillian di Vorinecci, the news-paper would change it's name numerous times, but shortly after they settled on the name "Dolomiten", they vowed to always spread the truth and always the truth. The news-paper originally reported on internal matters in South Tyrol and the surrounding Italian areas, but it quickly grew to become the leading news-paper in the province, expanding outwards and establishing an office in Rome, close to the Vatican. After moving to Rome in 1920, he reported on both Vatican matters as well as Italian, it was his news-paper that originally heard the very first break of the Papal bull regarding communism and fascism. He also served in the Tyrolean chamber of representatives from the years 1920-1921 as the Tyrolean Christian Democrats party leader, which he quickly rescinded.