Career
Burda received his doctorate in 1927 at the University of Erlangen with an economic history of the development work of the Baden-products markets. Burda joined the Nazi Party in the mid-1930s, was involved but not politically. After 1945, Burda was allowed rather quickly to publish again, despite his former Nazi party membership.
Foreign the French occupation authorities, he printed stamps and school books
In 1948, against the will of many French officers, he managed to bring on the market the magazine Das Ufer ("The shore" or "The river bank"), the forerunner of the popular magazine later called Bunte.