Alois Rummel

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Alois Rummel (born June 6, 1922 in Stuttgart ; † September 8, 2013 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German journalist and publicist and from 1979 to 1985 editor-in-chief of Rheinischer Merkur .

Life

Alois Rummel studied German, art history, philosophy and theology in Heidelberg , Freiburg and Tübingen . There he was in 1951 at the Faculty of Philosophy with the work "mannerist poetry in the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries (A comparison shown in Frauenlobstraße and Rilke)" at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen doctorate . Since his student days he was a very active member of the KStV Alamannia Tübingen in the KV , later he also became an honorary philistine of the KStV Arminia Bonn . Rummel often made his knowledge and skills available to the KV and published it in the academic monthly newspapers .

After a traineeship and a job as a political editor for the "Schwäbisches Tagblatt" in Tübingen, he switched to Südwestfunk. There he was initially in charge of the state political editorial department in Stuttgart. From 1962 he was a correspondent in the federal capital and head of the political editorial department in Bonn. From 1977 to 1980 he was radio program director of the SWF. In 1979 he succeeded Herwig Gückelhorn as editor-in-chief of Rheinischer Merkur (until 1985). Since 1987 he has been editor-in-chief of the "German Culture Department Bonn".

From 1990 to 1994 he was honorary chairman of the Catholic Press Association .

In 1992, Alois Rummel, today's Honorary President, founded the "European Academy of Federalism Bonn eV (EFB)", which deals with federalism as a major legal and cultural achievement in German history.

Quotes

  • "Anyone who has no thought and still writes it down is a journalist." (Alois Rummel)

Fonts

  • The Grand Coalition 1966-1969. A critical inventory , Eurobuch Freudenstadt 1969
  • who rules us , Eurobook Freudenstadt 1969
  • 20 years of the Federal Republic of Germany (2 speech plates), Ariola-Eurodisc 1969
  • The President of the Bundestag. Office, functions, persons , Verlag Bonn Aktuell Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-87959-016-8 (1987: 9th edition)
  • The media world is moving - an offer for the responsible citizen , Hase & Koehler Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7758-1145-1 (2005: 8th edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former editor-in-chief of "Rheinischer Merkur", Alois Rummel, dead , message in the news of Deutschlandfunk from September 14, 2013, 12:00 noon
personal data
SURNAME Rummel, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2013
Place of death bad Godesberg