Alfred Frankenfeld

Alfred Frankenfeld (born October 27, 1898 in Kühndorf ; † December 6, 1975 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and Hamburg politician.

Life and work

Frankenfeld studied history, philosophy and political science. In 1922 he received his doctorate as a Dr. phil. From 1921 he worked as a research assistant in the Foreign Office.

Frankenfeld received his first job in the journalistic field in 1923/24 as an editorial assistant at the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ). This was followed by the post of chief correspondent for Hamburg for the Berliner Tageblatt from 1924 to 1939 and at times also for the Frankfurter Zeitung . From 1939 to 1945 he worked again for the DAZ. During the Weimar Republic , he was also editor-in-chief of the newspaper “ Recht und Freiheit ”. The newspaper was a "Kampfblatt" of the German Democratic Party (DDP).

After the National Socialists came to power , he planned to found an underground newspaper critical of the regime with Alois Winhuber , editor-in-chief of the liberal Hamburger Anzeiger, and Martin Plat , the previous DDP country manager. This newspaper, called The Companion , was supposed to summarize the remaining liberals and disseminate liberal ideas in clauses. However, the newspaper was banned as early as October 1933 after a house search near Plat.

After the Second World War, he received his habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 1945, where he was given a teaching position for journalism from 1951.

In 1946, Frankenfeld took over the post of editor-in-chief of the FDP-affiliated Hamburg Free Press , which was renamed Hamburger Anzeiger in September 1952 . From 1957 he worked as editor-in-chief for Axel Springer Verlag .

From March 1, 1951 to May 13, 1954, he was Erich Klabunde's successor as chairman of the “Professional Association of Hamburg Journalists” . From 1956 to 1970 he was a member of the German Press Council . From 1970 chairman of the Science and Press Foundation and President of the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg.

Frankenfeld received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Political party

Frankenfeld, who belonged to the DDP in the Weimar Republic , joined the Free Democrats party in 1945 , which later became the Hamburg FDP regional association. From 1958 to 1966 he was deputy state chairman of the FDP Hamburg.

MP

In 1953 Frankenfeld moved into the Hamburg parliament for the FDP on the list of the Hamburg bloc . After Peter-Heinz Müller-Link was elected senator, he became parliamentary leader of his party in 1961, but had to give up the office again to Müller-Link in 1966. He was a member of the citizenry until 1970.

Fonts

• Justus Möser as a statesman in the Seven Years' War and at the English court , Diss. Göttingen 1922.
• History as fate. An emergency call to politics. Meiningen 1924.
• The colonial question in Franco-German relations 1890-1904 , Hamburg 1944.
• Born to see. A life for the press and parliament , Hans Christians Verlag, 1973.

literature

• Rita Bake (ed.): “Neues Hamburg” - testimonials from the reconstruction of the Hanseatic city, selected articles from 12 issues from the years 1947 to 1961. Hamburg 2005 (short biography of Alfred Frankenfeld on page 242).
• Christian Sonntag: Media careers. Biographical studies of post-war journalists from Hamburg 1946-1949 , Munich 2006.

Web links

• Alfred Frankenfeld ( Thuringian Author Lexicon )
• Literature by and about Alfred Frankenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, page 104.