Eugene Helber (? - 1922) was a newspaper publisher in Ann Arbor, MI.

During World War I, Helber was accused of sedition to the Postmaster General in Washington, DC, and barred from the use of the mails. At that time he handed his newspaper over to his son, James Helber, who continued publishing in English. His accuser, Professor William Hobbs, also led an effort against members of the University of Michigan's German department, resulting in the dismissal of Professor Carl Eggert.

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The distinctive Art Deco facade was added to this brick building in the early 1930s when the Ann Arbor Tribune occupied this building, on the old site of what had been Fred and Mary Heusel's City Bakery since the 1890s. The Tribune was the outgrowth of a series of German language newspapers, most directly Die Neue Post, published by Eugene J. Helber. Helber was outspokenly pro-German during the initial years of World War I, before the United States joined the conflict.

  • A History of Ann Arbor, Jonathan Marwil, Published by University of Michigan Press, 1991

ISBN 0472064630 p. 96-97

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