Sergej Lochthofen

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Sergej Lochthofen in the Nordhausen City Library (2015)

Sergej Lochthofen (born August 24, 1953 in Vorkuta , USSR ) is a German-Russian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Thüringer Allgemeine from 1990 to 2009 .

Life

As a Soviet citizen, Sergej Lochthofen attended a Soviet school in the GDR; he did not accept GDR citizenship . He then took up art studies in the Crimea , but returned to the GDR after two semesters in order to avoid Soviet military service. From 1971 to 1973 he volunteered at the newspaper of the SED district management for the Erfurt district, Das Volk , and then studied until 1977 at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Then he worked as a news editor at Das Volk until the fall of the Wall . In 1990 he was elected editor-in-chief of the former SED party organ, which was renamed the Thuringian General . After reunification, Lochthofen took on German citizenship.

At the same time the Thuringian General Employee Participation GmbH was founded with a capital of 25,000 GDR marks. The newspaper is still part of this GmbH today. Sergej Lochthofen was a partner and co-owner of the company, which has since become part of the WAZ media group and its Thuringia newspaper group . He was also the only East German who worked as editor-in-chief of a regionally important newspaper group. He owed this, among other things, to his media presence; he was often a guest on the television program Press Club , where he made a name for himself as the "voice of the east".

On November 26, 2009, the WAZ management announced that Lochthofen would be replaced as editor-in-chief of Thüringer Allgemeine on January 1, 2010 as part of the restructuring of the WAZ newspaper group in Thuringia , and that his wife, Antje-Maria Lochthofen, took over her post with him deputy editor-in-chief should be removed. Paul-Josef Raue was appointed as the new editor-in - chief . Before that, the WAZ management and Lochthofen had various ideas about changes in the TA; After a major downsizing in North Rhine-Westphalia, the WAZ planned a central news desk for the media in East Germany, too, with Lochthofen being its opponent. There were numerous protests against these decisions by readers and employees as well as by associations such as the German Association of Journalists and the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Sergej Lochthofen called his wife's dismissal “ kin detention ” and compared it with methods used by the Nazis and under Stalin. The group management described the statements as "damaging to the publisher" and replaced Lochthofen early on December 1, 2009.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

family

Sergej Lochthofen was born to the German communist Lorenz Lochthofen and a Russian mother in Vorkuta ( Soviet Union ). Lochthofen's father came from Dortmund and came to the Soviet Union in 1930 to work as a mine fitter in a shaft on the Donbass , a large coal region in the Ukraine. Soon afterwards he began to study journalism in Moscow and political economy in Engels ( ASSR of the Volga Germans ) before finally working as an editor for the German-language newspaper Nachrichten . In 1938 he was a victim of the Stalinist purges and sentenced to five years of forced labor in the Vorkuta labor camp - and detained for nine years. After his release from the Gulag in 1947, he continued to live in Vorkuta as an exile . After Lorenz Lochthofen had been rehabilitated by a court in Saratow in 1956, he was able to travel to the GDR with his wife, son Pawel, born in 1947, and son Sergej, born in 1953 , where he lived on the VI. SED party congress in 1963 was appointed to the Central Committee .

Sergej Lochthofen is the father of Boris Lochthofen , who became director of the MDR -Landesfunkhaus Thuringia in 2016 .

Awards

In December 2009, Lochthofen was honored as regional editor-in-chief in 2009 by a 60-strong expert jury from Medium Magazin .

Book publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Sergej Lochthofen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life story from a submerged country ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), October 17, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2015
  2. ^ Taz: The group coup , December 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Deposed editor-in-chief accuses WAZ group of Nazi methods , November 26, 2009, accessed on November 26, 2009
  4. ^ WAZ group dismisses the boss of the "Thüringer Allgemeine" , December 2, 2009, accessed on December 2, 2009
  5. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online on December 21, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Lochthofen, Sergej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorkuta , ASSR of the Komi , USSR