Bruno Stowsand

Bruno Stöwsand (born January 27, 1911 in Cuxhaven ; † February 24, 1996 there ) was a German journalist and editor-in-chief .

biography

Stöwsand studied economics and since 1931 newspaper studies at the University of Berlin . He was active in the red student community. As an opponent of the National Socialists , he had to leave the university in 1935 and was arrested. He had to spend the period from 1935 to 1939 in the Emsland camp Esterwegen and in the Börgermoor concentration camp . From 1939 to 1942 he was a commercial clerk and then a soldier in World War II . In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the British. After the war he worked as an editor for the German-American German news agency (Dena) founded in autumn 1945 . In Bremen he ran an agency that worked for Die Welt .

After the war, the publisher Kurt Ditzen was not given a license to publish a newspaper due to his membership in the NSDAP from the military government in the American occupation zone . Stöwsand and Walter Gong became license holders of the newly published Nordsee-Zeitung (NZ) in October 1947 . The publisher Kurt Ditzen leased his business to Stöwsand and Gong for five years. After Ditzen was classified as exonerated in 1948 , he took over the publishing house again in 1949. Stöwsand remained editor-in-chief until 1957 and was then publishing director and member of the newspaper's management until 1975.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .