Adelbert Weinstein
Adelbert Weinstein (born May 17, 1916 in Halle (Saale) , † January 12, 2003 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer , journalist and publicist .
Life
Weinstein was born the son of a chemist in Halle. He grew up on the Rhine and Lahn. After graduating from high school , he joined the Wehrmacht's motor vehicle division 7 (Munich) as a flag junior and was promoted to lieutenant in 1938 after graduating from the war and infantry school . As a frontline officer on the Eastern Front, he was seriously wounded twice. During the Second World War he received the Iron Cross 1st class. Most recently the major i. G. Second General Staff Officer (Ib) of the 347th Infantry Division.
At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British . After his release in 1947, he completed an internship at the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung . He studied history , Romance studies and economics at the University of Mainz for six semesters (without a degree). Erich Welter , one of the founding editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , brought him to Frankfurt in 1948. Weinstein took an active part in the development of the Bundeswehr as a journalist. He was also a reserve officer ( Lieutenant Colonel dR (1962) and Colonel dR (1966)) and 1960/61 President of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces . In 1961 he took part in the 19th course at the NATO Defense College in Paris.
Adelbert Weinstein was considered an “iron eater” who never denied his military character and who also incorporated it into his journalistic work. He was the military-political editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . As a reporter from Vietnam during the Second Indochina War ( Vietnam War ), Weinstein defended the US military engagement in Vietnam. His committed style, which was learned from Ernst Jünger's early work, occasionally had a disturbing effect on some of his editorial colleagues as well as on some of the FAZ readership . Adelbert Weinstein was a great admirer of Charles de Gaulle .
Contact with Harald Vocke which the editors for a long time the FAZ had listened before he publishing director and editor of the right-wing , Catholic daily mail was Weinstein led to his retirement as an author for the daily mail .
In 1981 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.
Weinstein was married and had no children.
Fonts (selection)
- Army without pathos. German rearmament in the judgment of former soldiers . Köllen-Verlag, Bonn 1951.
- Nobody can win the war. Strategy or Security? . Schimmelbusch, Bonn 1955.
- The new Mecca is on the Nile. New beginnings and upheavals in the Middle East (= Travel-See-Reports . 1). Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Wiesbaden 1958.
- Aloha Hawaii. Strange things from 3 continents (= travel see reports . 2). Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Wiesbaden 1959.
- This is de Gaulle. Claim and Reality . Dietrichs, Düsseldorf a. a. 1963.
Web links
- Literature by and about Adelbert Weinstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Adelbert Weinstein in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Ulrich Brinkhoff : Nightmares on the Saigon River, South Vietnam 1965-1968. agenda Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89688-516-6 , 243 pages with 120 illustrations. (with foreword by Walter Scheel)
Adelbert Weinstein (1960–1961) | Lothar Ganser (1961–1962) | Friedrich Ruge (1962–1965) | Konrad Stephanus (1965–1969) | Rudolf Woller (1969–1976) | Heinz-Detlef Drape (1976–1984) | Hans-Michael Moll (1984–1986) | Helmuth Möhring (1986–1987) | Armin A. Steinkamm (1987–1991) | Peter Kurt Würzbach (1991–1995) | Heinz-Alfred Steiner (1995–1996) | Helmut Rauber (1996-2003) | Ernst-Reinhard Beck (2003–2009) | Gerd Höfer (2009–2011) | Roderich Kiesewetter (2011–2016) | Oswin Veith (2016-2019) | Patrick Sensburg (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinstein, Adelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2003 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |