Siegfried Matlok
Siegfried Matlok (* 1945 ) is the former editor-in-chief of the German daily newspaper Der Nordschleswiger , the newspaper of the German minority in Denmark and the former head of the secretariat of the German ethnic group in Copenhagen.
Life and work
Matlok comes from Flensburg -Weiche, i.e. the German southern Schleswig . Parts of his family joined the Danish movement in 1945 like many others. Matlok himself attended the Danish school, but himself was not Danish, but German. He trained as a journalist at the Südschleswigschen Heimatzeitung , the German-language branch of Flensborg Avis , in Flensburg and at Nordschleswiger. In 1973 he became editor-in-chief of Nordschleswigers, the German daily newspaper in Denmark, and from 1979 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief. From its founding on September 6, 1983 to 2006, he was head of the secretariat of the German minority at the government and parliament in Copenhagen and represented the ethnic group in the contact committee for the German minority at the Folketing .
Matlok is a board member of the Danish Foreign Policy Society , a privileged member of the Folketing Press Lodge and a member of the EU Interreg Committee for Schleswig-Holstein and Southern Denmark .
Matlok lives in Løjt ( German Loit ) near Aabenraa ( German Apenrade ).
Awards
- 1995 Danish-German Prize
- 1996 Language Prize from the German foreign press
- 2008 Danish Publicist Prize ("Lille publicistpris") from the Danish Publicist Club ("Den danske Publicistklub").
- 2015 Ebbe Munck Prize
medal
- 1995 - Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2003 - Dannebrogorden
- 2007 - Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2007 - Knight's Cross 1st class of the Dannebrog Order
- 2012 - Gold Medal of Merit for services to the Republic of Austria
Publications
Matlok is a well-known commentator on Danish, German and European politics who has campaigned for European integration and regional cooperation in the border region.
In 1989, due to long discussions with Dr. Werner Best's memories of his time as the German Reich Plenipotentiary in Denmark during the Second World War . The book Denmark in Hitler's hands was also published in Danish.
swell
- Biography at Grænseforeningen ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ High distinction for a great communicator: Austrian ambassador presents Matlok the gold medal of merit. ( Memento of May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at: nordschleswiger.dk , April 14, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matlok, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish-German editor and head of the secretariat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |