Norbert F. Pötzl

Norbert F. Pötzl, 2017

Norbert F. Pötzl (born April 10, 1948 in Waiblingen ) is a German journalist and author . He was a long-time Spiegel editor.

Life

After graduating from high school in Waiblingen, Pötzl volunteered for the Südwestpresse in Ulm from 1966 to 1968 . He then spent two years studying law at the University of Tübingen . From 1970 to 1972 he was the regional political correspondent for the Schwäbische Zeitung in Leutkirch.

From 1972 to 2013 he worked as an editor for the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel . At the end of the 1980s he was involved in the discovery of the Barschel affair ; A book produced immediately afterwards is, however, only of limited use to scientists. He later worked at Spiegel as an office manager in Berlin (from 1990 to 1994) and as head of duty (from 1994 to 1996). Most recently he was deputy head of the “Special Topics” department from 2004 to 2013, where he was also responsible for the Spiegel Geschichte and Spiegel Wissen series . He conducted interviews with people from contemporary German history such as Egon Bahr , Joachim Gauck , Gregor Gysi , Erich Mielke , Manfred Stolpe and Wolfgang Vogel . His biography (2014), later published about Vogel, was positively received by science.

He is the author and editor of numerous books ( Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, among others). In 2004, together with Jochen Bölsche , he edited an anthology on comments, conversations and lectures by Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein . The joint works The New Arab World and The Germans in Eastern Europe , both from 2011, were included in the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . His biography of Berthold Beitz was 2011/12 on the bestseller list of manager magazin .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Totally under control. Computer ID, census, wiring (= Spiegel-Buch . 65). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-33065-2 .
• The Barschel case. Anatomy of a German career (= Spiegel book ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-498-05267-5 . (expanded new edition 1989)
• Bazaar of Spies. The secret missions of the GDR negotiator Wolfgang Vogel. (= Mirror book). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-15019-5 .
• Erich Honecker. A German biography. DVA, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-421-05585-8 .
• Beitz. A German story. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-17955-4 .
• Mission freedom - Wolfgang Vogel. Lawyer for German-German history. Heyne, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20021-0 .
• Bismarck. The will to power. Propylaea, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-549-07451-0 .
• Casablanca 1943. The secret meeting, the film and the turn of the war , Siedler, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0088-5
• The trust complex. Legends. Facts. Emotions . Course book edition, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96196-065-1 .

Editorships

• with Stephan Burgdorff , Klaus Wiegrefe : Prussia. The unknown great power. DVA, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-04351-1 .
• with Rainer Traub : The Cold War. How the world survived the madness of the arms race. DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04398-6 .
• with Annette Großbongardt : The new Arab world. History and political awakening. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04543-0 . ( Federal Agency for Civic Education 2011)
• with Uwe Klußmann , Annette Großbongardt: The Germans in Eastern Europe. Conquerors, settlers, displaced people. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04527-0 . (Federal Agency for Civic Education 2011)
• with Uwe Klußmann: The Hohenzollern. Prussian kings, German emperors. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04539-3 .
• with Joachim Mohr , Johannes Saltzwedel What we need to know today. From the flood of information to the educational asset. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04517-1 .
• with Johannes Saltzwedel: The Popes. Rulers of faith - from Peter to Francis. DVA, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04598-0 .
• with Johannes Saltzwedel: The Germanic peoples. History and myth. DVA, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04616-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert F. Pötzl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Norbert F. Pötzl  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Norbert F. Pötzl at perlentaucher.de
• Profile of Norbert F. Pötzl on kress.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imprint of Spiegel No. 1/1973, p. 14 and imprint of Spiegel No. 23/2013, p. 144; Work started three months before the first appearance in the imprint.
2. ↑ See Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag (Hrsg.): The Kiel Committee of Inquiry . Part: The questions and the answers. October 1987 - January 1988 . Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 1988, p. 178.
3. ^ Cf. Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse : Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 2: Analysis . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8046-8727-X , p. 240, fn. 119.
4. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Wettig : Collective Review: History of the GDR . In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 27. Vol. (2015), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2522-9 , pp. 270-279, here: p. 273; Jan Philipp Wölbern: The release of prisoners from the GDR 1962 / 63–1989. Between human trafficking and humanitarian action. [With 6 tables] (= analyzes and documents . Vol. 38). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-35079-9 , p. 17.
5. ↑ Jochen Bölsche : Writing what is . In: Rudolf Augstein : Writing what is. Comments, discussions, lectures (= German 34143). Edited by Jochen Bölsch. DTV, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-34143-2 , p. 346.
6. ↑ bestseller . In: Manager Magazin , December 23, 2011, No. 1, p. 110 and January 20, 2012, No. 2, p. 106.