Axel Seeberg (journalist)

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Axel Seeberg (born June 15, 1904 in Dorpat , Estonia , † June 12, 1986 in Kellinghusen ) was a German political scientist and journalist.

Life

Axel Seeberg came as the son of the Protestant theologian Alfred Seeberg and his wife Marie, b. Walter moved to Rostock in 1908 when his father accepted a professorship at the University of Rostock . After graduating from high school in Rostock in 1922 , he studied political science at the universities in Rostock, Munich and Berlin. From 1929 to 1931 he was a speaker at the Political College in Berlin. Until 1933 he was a member of the Bündische Jugend . From 1931 to 1939 he was a lecturer at the German University of Politics in Berlin and from 1939 to 1945 he was a research assistant at the Foreign Office in Political Geography and member of the England Committee.

Seeberg was one of the founders of the German General Sunday Gazette founded by Hanoverian regional bishop Hanns Lilje in 1946 and was also involved in its development. From 1947 to 1953 he was deputy editor-in-chief specializing in foreign affairs. From 1954 to 1972 he was editor-in-chief of the Sunday paper as successor to Hans Zehrer , Heinz Zahrnt acted as theological editor-in-chief .

Seeberg was a member of the Kronberger Kreis , a group of Protestant leaders founded by Eberhard Müller , Hanns Lilje and Reinold von Thadden . a. such as Otto A. Friedrich , Kai-Uwe von Hassel , Gerhard Stoltenberg and Richard von Weizsäcker belonged. Seeberg developed here in line with his professional activity to become a specialist who dealt with “international relations in a broader sense”. He was also a founding member of the Hermann Ehlers Foundation .

Works (selection)

  • Play, sport and work service. A manual for boys and boy guides. v. Halem, Bremen 1936, (with Ludwig Vogt)
  • Farewell to Christianity? 17 Answers from Publicists and Theologians to a Contemporary Challenge. A festive gift for Hanns Lilje on his 65th birthday on August 10, 1964. (Eds. Axel Seeberg and Heinz Zahrnt), Furche-Verlag, Hamburg 1964. (second edition, 1967)
  • A new China. The Taiwan model. Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1976, ISBN 978-3-512-00351-6 (with Sven Steenberg)
  • Continuity and change in east-west relations. Markus-Verlag, Cologne 1983, (with Boris Meissner ).

literature

  • Felix Teuchert: The lost community. Protestantism and the integration of the displaced into West German society (1945–1972). (= Work on contemporary church history; Volume 72), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-57056-2 , p. 551. ( Google Books )
  • Günter Mack: A clever skeptic. In: The time . No. 27/1986 of June 27, 1986, ( zeit online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Niemeyer: Directory of the high school graduates of the large city school in Rostock from Easter 1859 to Easter 1930. In: Walther Neumann (Hrsg.): The large city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries. Rostock 1930, p. 178.
  2. ↑ Entry on Axel Seeberg in the Rostock matriculation portal , ( further entry )
  3. ^ Thomas Sauer: Orientation towards the West in German Protestantism? Concepts and activities of the Kronberger Kreis. Walter de Gruyter, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59526-0 , pp. 120, 182. ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Seeberg, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1986
Place of death Kellinghusen