Albert Wucher

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Albert Wucher (born September 6, 1920 in Lindenberg im Allgäu ; † December 27, 2010 in Munich ) was a German journalist and author of contemporary history books.

Life

Albert Wucher received his Abitur in 1939 at the humanistic grammar school in Dillingen an der Donau . From 1938 to 1945 he was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht , most recently as a first lieutenant . After the war, he studied history and German in Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1949 from the ancient historian Joseph Vogt with a thesis on Theodor Mommsen . Wucher joined the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1949 and stayed there his entire professional life until 1985. The third Reich was the main focus of his journalistic work and his book publications . Between 1968 and 1978 he was Italy correspondent in Rome . For the Süddeutsche Zeitung he reported on the Eichmann trial and the Second Vatican Council. In 1981 he became a professor in the journalism course at the Institute for Journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and retired in 1985 . Advised by Karl Otmar von Aretin , Wucher produced a series about the Weimar Republic for ZDF .

Works

  • Little Pope's story . Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
  • The fire has been back since 5:45 a.m. - A documentary report on the prehistory and beginning of the Second World War . South German Verl., Munich 1959.
  • There were many Eichmanns - a documentary report on the 'final solution' of the Jewish question . Droemer / Knaur, Munich a. a. 1961.
  • Raise the flag - the end of the republic and Hitler's takeover. A documentary report . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. U. a. 1963.
  • The Weimar Republic - its history in texts, pictures and documents . Desch, Munich a. a. 1965 (together with FA Krummacher and Karl Otmar von Aretin).
  • Theodor Mommsen - Historiography and Politics . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1956, 2nd edition 1968.
  • How did the Federal Republic come about? Political talks with men from the very beginning . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. U. a. 1968.
  • Illustrated world history . Lingen Verlag, Cologne 1976 (Chapters 32-37).
  • Landmarks of contemporary German history 1914–1945 . Societäts-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7973-0500-1 .
  • From Peter to Paul - World History of the Popes . Societäts-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1970, 3rd updated edition 1991, ISBN 3-7973-0492-7

literature

  • Patrick Bahners : Historians in the paper. On the death of Albert Wucher . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 31, 2010, No. 305, p. 34.
  • Patrick Bahners: Vivisector of Church History. For Albert Wucher's 90th birthday. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 6, 2010, No. 206, p. 32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Part in: Süddeutsche Zeitung December 31, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Bahners, Vivisector of Church History
personal data
SURNAME Usury, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenberg in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2010
Place of death Munich