Alfred Rapp

Alfred Rapp (2nd from right) at a TV journalist interview in 1953; left of him: Eugen Gerstenmaier , right: Kurt von Gleichen

Alfred Rapp (born January 3, 1903 in Karlsruhe , † August 1991 ) was a German journalist.

Life

Alfred Rapp had a doctorate in history and initially worked as a research assistant for the state parliament of the Republic of Baden , and he also wrote several historical works on this region. From 1929 to 1934 he worked as an editor for the Mannheimer Neue Badische Landeszeitung . After they were hired, he worked as an author until 1937, then again as an editor until 1941, this time as head of the politics department of the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten .

At the end of May 1941, Rapp replaced the deputy editor-in-chief of the occupation newspaper Pariser Zeitung , Emil Frotscher , at the same time he was also the Paris correspondent of the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich . After the end of the Pariser Zeitung in 1944, Rapp served in the Wehrmacht , and in 1945 he was interned in Switzerland .

In 1948/49 Rapp worked for various newspapers as a correspondent for the Frankfurt Economic Council . In 1950 he became parliamentary correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and later took over the management of the Bonn office. His presidency of the German Press Club , which he held from 1953 to 1965, was of particular importance . Rapp was one of Konrad Adenauer's favorite journalists and was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

• Andreas Laska: Presse et propaganda en France occupée: des Moniteurs officiels (1870–1871) à la Gazette des Ardennes (1914–1918) et à la Pariser Zeitung (1940–1944) . Herbert Utz Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0293-X . (French, with a German summary; also dissertation on press history using the “Cotutelle procedure”: University of Munich and University of Paris II ; 2003).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bundesanzeiger , vol. 20, number 12 of January 18, 1968, p. 1