Gregor Peter Schmitz

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Gregor Peter Schmitz (* 1975 ) is a German journalist and book author.

Career

Schmitz studied law and political science in Munich, Paris, Cambridge and at Harvard University , where he obtained an MPA degree from the Kennedy School of Government as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. His doctorate took place with a thesis on legislation against Holocaust denial. During his studies he worked regularly as a journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Spiegel . After graduating from Harvard, he headed the Brussels office of the Bertelsmann Foundation from 2005 to 2007 , where he also coordinated all of the foundation's transatlantic projects. From 2007 to 2013 he worked as a correspondent for Spiegel and Spiegel Online in Washington, where he was part of the magazine's Wikileaks and NSA team and for a text on the American civil rights movement with the Arthur F. Burns Prize and for the revelations about the Wiretapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone was awarded the Henri Nannen Prize by the US secret service .

Between 2013 and 2015 Schmitz reported from Brussels as the European correspondent for Spiegel, before he took over the management of the capital city office and political department at WirtschaftsWoche . In 2014 he wrote a book about Europe with speculator and patron George Soros , which is a Spiegel bestseller and has been translated into 13 languages. Die Zeit called the book a “passionate plea for a united Europe” and Foreign Affairs called it the “most honest and sensible book about the euro crisis”.

Schmitz is a regular commentator on Deutschlandfunk , international media and on German television in the press club (WDR) , Anne Will and the ZDF morning magazine .

At the beginning of 2018, he succeeded Walter Roller as editor-in-chief of Augsburger Allgemeine .

At the end of 2018, a 100-member jury from the specialist magazine Medium Magazin selected him as “Journalists of the Year” (3rd place in the editor-in-chief reg. Category). The jury praised the fact that Schmitz had developed the Augsburger Allgemeine brand “remarkably quickly” and regularly made headlines beyond Bavaria, such as during his talk evening with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In 2018 Schmitz was also nominated as " Journalist of the Year" at the Lead Awards, one of the most renowned German media prizes. There it was stated in the jury statement that the regional newspapers, which, not least because of the tendency to split down into the smallest, local areas of our society, present the greatest journalistic challenges, are currently "performing the most remarkable journalistic and journalistic achievements".

The Augsburger Allgemeine also won eight prizes at the European Newspaper Awards that year.

In June 2019 Schmitz was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize, the most prestigious prize in the German newspaper industry. Later in the year he also received a lead award in silver for “Journalist of the Year”. At the award ceremony, the jury particularly praised the nominees' "service to democracy", who pursued the "claim to a tolerant and enlightened society" - and said that Schmitz showed "how to make newspapers today" with research and titles. .

At the end of 2019, Schmitz also took second place in one of the editor-in-chief categories in the “Journalists of the Year” election. The 100-member jury of “Medium Magazin” praised the fact that he had made the Augsburger Allgemeine a nationally respected regional newspaper, for which digital subscriptions were also steadily increasing.

The new series of talks “Augsburger Allgemeine Live” was also highlighted - to which top-class guests such as Chancellor Angela Merkel, Green Chairman Robert Habeck, Siemens boss Joe Kaeser, writer Ferdinand von Schirach, TV presenters Anne Will and Markus Lanz and entertainer Harald Schmidt and Schmitz's morning newsletter “Sechsum6”. The "Augsburger Allgemeine" was one of the most cited newspapers in the country in 2018 and 2019.

Schmitz is involved on a voluntary basis as a member of the board of trustees of the “International Journalist Programs” (IJP) and as chairman of the McCloy Alumni Association at Harvard University.

Publications

  • George Soros - Bet on Europe

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ focus.de "Gregor Schmitz new editor-in-chief" Augsburger Allgemeine "" accessed on September 4, 2017
  2. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
  3. ↑ youtube.com
  4. ↑ leadacademy.de
  5. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
  6. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Six journalists honored with the Theodor Wolff Prize - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ LeadAwards 2019. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: "Journalists of the Year 2019": Gregor Peter Schmitz takes second place. Accessed on January 30, 2020 .
  9. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: Live. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: The Augsburger Allgemeine is cited more often than ever. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ SPIEGEL Online on the Henri Nannen Prize , accessed on June 4, 2017.
  12. ↑ Press release of the Federal Foreign Office on the Arthur F. Burns Prize accessed on June 4, 2017
  13. ↑ https://www.acgusa.org/young-leaders/
  14. ^ Contributions to the Atlantic Council


personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Gregor Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1975