over the position as Editor-in-Chief from Bernd Ruland. Under his management, the magazine developed into a modern popular magazine for middle class society, and by the mid-1970s, the Bunte had grown to become Germany's bestselling magazine. In 1983, Burda-Verlag unveiled its new headquarters at Arabellapark in Munich. That same year, various editorial teams, including the Bunte, moved from main headquarters in Offenburg to the Bavarian state capital. In 1985, Burda-Verlag purchased from Rolf Mengele the handwritten notes of his father, Josef Mengele, which consisted of several thousand pages, for one million Deutsche Marks, which resulted in the Bunte's publishing a series of articles on the notorious doctor from the Auschwitz concentration camp, who was among the perpetrators of gruesome medical experiments on live human beings. The Burda-Verlag did not pay royalties from reprints to Rolf Mengele, instead they went to the survivors of Auschwitz and their dependents. After the death of Franz Burda in the year 1986, the Burda Group was reorganized. Hubert Burda transitioned from Editor-in-Chief of the Bunte into the position of publisher. His designated successor was initially Peter Boenisch, who, however, already had to relinquish this position at the end of 1986, among other reasons, owing to differences concerning the future direction of the publication and the losses into the millions incurred by the Bunte. At the end of 1986, Lothar Strobach was ultimately appointed as the magazine's new Editor-in-Chief, and Franz Josef Wagner took on the role as co-editor in 1989. After Strobach left the Burda-Verlag in 1994, Wagner remained Editor-in-Chief until the end of 1996. His tenure was only interrupted by an intermezzo of Editor-in-Chief Beate Wedekind, who only lasted one year from 1992/1993 as editorial head of the Bunte, however. After Wagner was forced to step down due to faltering circulation, Axel Thorer was initially under consideration for Editor-in-Chief at the Bunte. Finally, however, Patricia Riekel took over the management of the magazine in January 1997, and with the beginning of her tenure, the cover of the Bunte for the first time featured a politician, Gerhard Schröder. From then on, politics became an integral part of the publication. An additional example for this is the publication of Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping's vacation photos at a time shortly before Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, faced a deployment abroad. Instead of nobility, Riekel put a spotlight on the so-called "new elites", positioning the Bunte as a