Gösta from Uexküll
Gustav Adolf Herbert Baron von Uexküll (born November 3, 1909 in Heidelberg , † April 1, 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and writer.
Life
Uexküll is a son of the biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll , he grew up together with his brother Thure von Uexküll in Anklam . He graduated from high school in 1929 at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg . He then worked for the American press agency United Press in Berlin. Since he helped some people who were persecuted as Jews to escape from Germany, he himself ended up in the Gestapo search network . He then fled to Sweden. In Stockholm he met Ewa Lewerentz , who worked for the Swedish intelligence service and was mainly concerned with counter-espionage.
In 1955 he returned to Hamburg and worked as an editor for the newspapers Die Welt and Die Zeit . After that he lived as a freelance publicist. He played a major role in the anti-nuclear death and peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980 he was one of the first to sign the Krefeld appeal .
His son Jakob von Uexküll is the founder of the “Alternative Nobel Prize” ( Right Livelihood Award ) and the initiator of the World Future Council ( World Future Council ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gösta von Uexküll in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gösta von Uexküll in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Krefeld Appeal ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.atomwaffena-z.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uexküll, Gösta von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uexküll, Gustav Adolf Herbert Baron von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1993 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |