Adolf Wolfard
Adolf Wolfard (born December 20, 1901 in Bremen ; † November 29, 1951 ibid.) Was a German editor .
biography
Wolfard was the son of a wine merchant with an agency business. He graduated from the Bremen Realgymnasium (today Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium) and studied law at the University of Munich and the University of Kiel from 1920 to 1924 . However, he did not work as a lawyer, instead he became an employee of the Bremer Nachrichten . He initially worked in the political and municipal sectors. In 1926 he received his doctorate on the legal status of the Bremen Senate. He became editor and then deputy editor in chief in the 1930s.
At the end of the Second World War , the publication of the newspaper by Schünemann Verlag was discontinued. From 1945 to 1949 Wolfard worked for the Schünemann family as legal advisor. The Bremer Nachrichten, which was burdened by the Nazi era , was only allowed to be published again in 1949 and Wolfard was again active as editor and deputy editor-in-chief. He joined the CDU in 1946 . In April 1951 he became a member of the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen . In October 1951, he succeeded Walter Gong as the main editor of the Bremer Nachrichten.
On November 29, 1951, he was killed in his editorial office by the parcel bomb from Erich von Halacz from Nienburg / Weser, who came from a broken family . The 22-year-old perpetrator stated that the motive for the crime was that he wanted to extort money by threatening further attacks in order to open a record store. The perpetrator was sentenced to life in prison and pardoned in 1974. It was bizarre that the Amsterdam telepath Carl Bor Kadlezek, who called himself Burlisto, predicted Wolfard in Bremen at the beginning of October 1951: “Within a few months you will no longer be alive”.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Assassinations and cannibalism . dpa article on Welt-Online, December 4, 2003.
- ↑ What happened? In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1951, pp. 5-6 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolfard, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1951 |
| Place of death | Bremen |