Wilfried Scharnagl

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Wilfried Scharnagl at the CSU party conference in Munich 2015

Wilfried Scharnagl (born October 26, 1938 in Hinterkotten , Tachau district , Sudetenland ; † October 16, 2018 in Freising ) was a German journalist , author and politician of the CSU . From 1964 he was an employee of the CSU state management and the CSU party newspaper Bayernkurier , from 1977 to 2001 its editor-in-chief.

Life

Scharnagl studied history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked as an editor at the Freisinger Tagblatt .

He was a long-time companion of Franz Josef Strauss . Their relationship was considered extremely intimate. Strauss is said to have said about Scharnagl: "He writes what I think and I think what Scharnagl writes." Scharnagl was active in the CSU and took part in meetings of the highest party bodies. He was a member of the board of the Hanns Seidel Foundation . He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

In August 2012, Scharnagl published the book Bavaria can do it alone , in which he pleaded for an independent Bavarian state . Such a demand had only been made by the Bavarian separatist party until then . He was accused of presenting historical events one-sidedly in the book, for example not mentioning that the Free State of Bavaria was proclaimed by the Berlin- born socialist Kurt Eisner . In March 2014 his book Failure was published in Brussels. Plea for a better Europe , in which he goes to court with the Brussels EU bureaucracy.

Scharnagl died in Freising on October 16, 2018, ten days before he would have turned 80.

Books

  • Japan. The concerted aggression. 1969.
  • The penny empire: trade unions as entrepreneurs. 1970.
  • The filth we live in or an obituary for our environment. 1971.
  • with Petra Moll : Munich. Dream city in winter. 1980.
  • The great Petra Moll book. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus & Augsburger Bücher Verlag, Rosenheim / Augsburg 1981, ISBN 3-475-52327-2 . (Review in Franconia 121/1983 )
  • Marianne Strauss . A book of memory. 1984.
  • with a contribution by Edward Heath : Group Europe. Wish and reality. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1972.
  • My bouquet: statesman and friend. Ars Una, Neuried 2008, ISBN 978-3-89391-860-7 .
  • Bavaria can do it alone: ​​pleading for its own state. Quadriga, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86995-048-8 .
  • Failure in Brussels: a plea for a better Europe. Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86886-026-9 .
  • On the brink: polemic for a different approach to Russia. Keysersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86886-029-0 .

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Scharnagl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Knobbe: CSU veteran Scharnagl: "It is time for the great Bavarian rebellion". In: Spiegel Online . August 22, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Katrin van Randenborgh: Focussed: "Bavaria can do it alone". In: Focus 28/2012. July 9, 2012, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Das Gupta: Why Merkel is targeting the CSU election campaigners. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 22, 2012, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Wilfried Scharnagl passed away. In: CSU . October 16, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Scharnagl, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), editor-in-chief of "Bayernkurier" and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinterkotten , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2018
Place of death Freising