Joseph E. Ridder

Joseph Edward Ridder (April 4, 1886 – April 21, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher who was the chairman of Ridder Publications. He was the son of newspaper magnate Herman Ridder.

Biography Ridder was born on April 4, 1886, to Herman Ridder and his wife Mary C. Amend. Four years after he was born, his father became business manager of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. He attended De La Salle Institute with his twin brother Victor F. Ridder and graduated from Columbia College in 1907.

After graduating from Columbia, Ridder worked in the press room of the Staats-Zeitung, which his father recently acquired. Mechanically adept, Ridder helped his father design and invent the Intertype machine, which was marketed through the International Type-setting Machine Company. Ridder worked for Henry Ford until his father's death in 1915, when he rejoined his brothers at the family newspaper. He also served in the Motor Transport Corps during World War I. He later sold The Long Island Press to the Newhouse family in 1934.

He was a member of India House, New York Yacht Club, University Club of New York.

Personal life Ridder married Hedwig Ottilia Schneider (1889-1960) in 1911 and after Schneider's death in 1960, married her half-sister, Irma Saltzseider (1899-1971). It was a second marriage for both, their previous spouses were deceased. He had two daughters and two sons, Olympic sailor and newspaper publisher Eric Ridder and Bernard J. Ridder, who was a publisher of The Pasadena Star-News. He died on April 20 at the Good Samaritan Hospital at 80 years old.