Anneliese Brost

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Anneliese Brost (born as Anneliese Brinkmann ; born September 4, 1920 in Bochum ; † September 8, 2010 in Essen ) was a German publisher , partner of the WAZ media group , billionaire and patron .

Life

Anneliese Brost wanted to study business administration, but in 1938 the National Socialists refused her a place at university. The Hitler regime stalked the Social Democratic family, the SA burned their library on the market square. With her mother, a committed women's rights activist and acquaintance of Marie Juchacz , the founder of the Workers' Welfare Association, she kept hiding with friends. Her grandfather finally placed her as a secretary at the Westfälische Rundschau .

Anneliese Brost was part of the founding team of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . As the secretary of the Westfälische Rundschau she met Erich Brost in 1946 , then the first editor-in-chief of the Neue Rhein / Ruhr Zeitung in Essen , and one year later became his assistant when Brost founded the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a "politically independent newspaper for the Ruhr area".

Erich Brost's first wife died in 1966. In 1975 Anneliese Brinkmann married Erich Brost, 18 years her senior, and took over his duties after his death in 1995. In 1985 the couple adopted their company's managing director, Erich Schumann. Erich Brost's son, Martin Brost, was paid out in 1978.

Anneliese Brost owned over 30% of the company shares, Erich Schumann held over 20% until his death. After Schumann's death in January 2007, the shares fell to Erich Brost's grandchildren. Anneliese Brost's fortune was estimated at 1.3 billion euros in 2007, making her 47th on the list of the richest Germans.

She was seen as the company's social conscience and a committed social democrat.

Brost foundations

Anneliese Brost sponsored numerous social and cultural projects. In 1997 the "Erich and Anneliese Brost Foundation" was established to support the municipal children's homes "Funke Foundation" and "Haus Hoheneck" in Essen. In March 2002 she founded the “Anneliese Brost Foundation”, which promotes especially youth and elderly care as well as art and culture in Essen and the Ruhr area . In the “Anneliese-Brost-Zentrum” senior citizens' home funded by the foundation, apartments with appropriate common rooms were created for older people. The center was a focus of their social work. Both foundations were merged into one in 2008.

In addition, the "Anneliese Brost Foundation" supports initiatives of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation which serve to promote international understanding and to secure peace. In particular, German-Polish reconciliation was a concern of Anneliese Brost, which is shown, among other things, in meeting programs for young Germans and Poles.

Wolfgang Heit (2018), Chairman of the Board of the Brost Foundation in front of the Erich Brost Pavilion on the coal washing plant of the Zollverein colliery

In fulfillment of Anneliese Brost's testamentary will, the Brost Foundation was also established in Essen in 2011 . She continues Anneliese Brost's charitable work with a long-term perspective by developing and promoting various projects, measures and facilities.

The foundation idea of ​​the Brost Foundation focuses on building bridges between the generations, as the founder always strived for. The Brost Foundation particularly wants to support interesting and innovative projects that show that problem solutions through cooperation between all service providers and mutual understanding for the common goal are promising in the long term and thereby gain in radiance and pull. As an initiative foundation, the Brost Foundation relies on self-developed projects in the field of senior citizen care, youth work, art and culture and journalistic responsibility. In 2014 she provided the start-up funding for the non-profit research center Correctiv .

In the cultural field, the theater, the philharmonic orchestra and the Folkwang Museum benefited from Anneliese Brost's support. In the “Freundeskreis Theater und Philharmonie Essen e. V. “she has been a member of the board of trustees since the association was founded in 1985. Anneliese Brost also supported Roberto Ciulli's Theater an der Ruhr and the German Dance Prize . It also financed the construction of the Erich Brost Hall on the coal washing plant of the Zollverein colliery . The pavilion named after Anneliese Brost's deceased husband offers an overview of Essen and the surrounding area from a height of 38 meters.

Another focus of Anneliese Brost's commitment was promoting young journalists at the Technical University of Dortmund . During his lifetime, Erich Brost founded the "Erich Brost Institute" in 1991. From this foundation, the Erich Brost Institute for Journalism in Europe , based in Dortmund, was created, which is committed to the international education and training of journalists and is dedicated to research on questions of international journalism. Brost's heirs, his widow Anneliese and their adoptive son Erich Schumann , continued to run the Erich Brost Foundation after Brost's death. In the summer of 2002, they handed over the Erich-Brost-Haus science center, their own institute building on the North Campus, to the University of Dortmund (since November 2007: Technical University). This is where the courses offered by the “International Journalism” department of the Institute for Journalism take place. The building was developed as an independent functional unit especially for the work of international groups of scientists with a focus on journalism. It has appropriate work, editorial, archive and technical rooms, a large conference room with facilities for simultaneous interpreters, its own library and a wing of the building with workplaces for doctoral groups. Apartments for visiting researchers are also available.

In December 2004 Anneliese Brost and Erich Schumann donated their shares in the foundation company and with it the entire foundation including the newly built institute building of the then University of Dortmund. It is one of the largest donations the university has ever received.

Brost's activities to promote journalism at the University of Dortmund also included the establishment of an endowed professorship ( C 4 ) for international journalism with a focus on Europe for a period of five years, which was filled for the first time in winter 1998/99. It was the first university professorship for international journalism in Germany. There was no subsequent appointment by the university without giving reasons until the 2007/2008 winter semester. Since April 2008, the scientific management and management has been in the hands of Susanne Fengler . She is also the head of the Erich Brost Institute.

In memory of their deceased husband or adoptive father, Anneliese Brost and Erich Schumann also donated the Erich Brost University Lecturership at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at Oxford University (first occupied 1997–2002; newly filled 2007). Erich Brost, Social Democrat and political editor of the Danziger Volksstimme, had to flee from the National Socialists in 1936. He stayed in England from 1943 until the end of the war, where he worked for the BBC .

Awards

In 2004 Anneliese Brost was awarded the State Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for her entrepreneurial achievements and as a sponsor of important social areas . In 2005 she received honorary citizenship from the Technical University of Dortmund. In 2008 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. The founding of the order praised Anneliese Brost as "one of the most important personalities in the German media landscape". At the request of Anneliese Brost, the ceremony took place on a small scale in Düsseldorf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WAZ partner Anneliese Brost has died . In: TLZ . September 9, 2010 ( tlz.de [accessed October 21, 2018]).
  2. ^ A b Rolf Potthoff: The publisher. In: derwesten.de . April 2, 2008, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ WAZ Group: Brost Holding with new management. In: Manager Magazin . Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ oht: Super-rich: The top 50 German billionaires. In: World . March 9, 2007, accessed August 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar : WAZ partner: Brost deceased as a media woman from the very beginning. In: Wirtschaftswoche . September 9, 2010, accessed on October 7, 2019 (source: Handelsblatt Online ).
  6. ↑ Rolf Potthoff: Anneliese Brost - newspaper was her life. In: derwesten.de . September 9, 2010, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hans Leyendecker: The well-being of the heirs in view. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 4, 2011, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b High distinction for Anneliese Brost. (No longer available online.) In: derwesten.de. May 7, 2008, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b "Anneliese Brost Foundation": Anneliese Brost. In: anneliese-brost-stiftung.de, accessed on August 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ Circle of Friends and Philharmonic Essen e. V. Board of Trustees. (No longer available online.) In: freundeskreis-tup.de. June 21, 2017, archived from the original on July 31, 2012 ; accessed on July 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Hippe: 2004 State Prize NRW Anneliese Brost. (No longer available online.) In: geschichte.nrw.de/chronik. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013 ; accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Erich Brost - The journalist and politician. (No longer available online.) In: brost.org. Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, archived from the original on November 8, 2010 ; accessed on July 18, 2018 .
  13. ^ Homepage ( Memento of November 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: journalistik-dortmund.de, accessed on August 24, 2019.
  14. ^ Idw : Erich Brost Institute transferred to the university. January 10, 2005, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Erich Brost Institute for Journalism in Europe. (No longer available online.) In: journalistik-dortmund.de. Institute for Journalism at the University of Dortmund, archived from the original on November 30, 2009 ; accessed on July 18, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Susanne Fengler | European Journalism Observatory (EJO). In: ejo.ch, accessed on August 24, 2019.
  17. ^ Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for Anneliese Brost. Lord Mayor congratulates in a letter of congratulations ( memento from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Press release. In: essen.de, April 7, 2008, accessed on August 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Brost, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2010
Place of death eat