244:. She became the partner responsible for the editing department of the book publishing operation and then, later, of the entire book publishing department and co-managing director (with her cousin) of Otto Maier Verlag KG. During the 1970s she felt duty-bound continued to work full-time while her children were young, despite an acute awareness of a widespread disapproval in West Germany at that time of mothers doing this if their husbands were earning well and their children were young. It helped that she was able to employ a nanny, and the boys also had access to a nearby grandmother. As the children began to become less dependent she teamed up with her cousin, Otto Julius Maier in 1978 to head up jointly the company's Books and Games publishing business. She retained her seat at the company's top table following changes in its legal structure and status: it became a
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Dorothee Hess-Maier feiert am 6. November ihren 75. Geburtstag. Hess-Maier war viele Jahre in der Geschäftsführung des Otto Maier Verlages und im Vorstand der Ravensburger AG tätig. Von 1989 bis 1992 war sie Vorsteherin des Börsenvereins - als erste Frau in der
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