Carl Fink (editor)

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Carl Emil Adam Fink (born March 29, 1861 in Lübeck ; † 1943 ) was a German newspaper publisher and journalist .

Life

A native of Lübeck Carl Fink turned after high school studying law and political science at the University of Leipzig and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to which he with the promotion of Dr. jur. completed. He then spent several years in Mexico and Central America , and from 1888 he worked as a journalist in the USA . After Fink had held various positions on his return to Germany, he was appointed head of the weekly newspaper “ Der Ostasiatischer Lloyd” in Shanghai in 1898 , which he held until 1917. During this time it developed into one of the most respected German foreign magazines. In addition, Fink founded other German, English and English magazines in China, including in 1904 the daily newspaper “Tsingtau Latest News” for Tsingtau , which ceased operations in 1914. He also published the "Deutsche Zeitung in China" in Shanghai during the First World War .

Carl Fink, who was deported to Germany by the British in 1919, then took over the management of the editorial team for the German political and economic news, which was distributed in English throughout the world by the von Nauen radio station . Some time later he was temporarily in charge of the political and general section of the "Ostasiatische Rundschau" , and in 1926 Fink was entrusted with the management of the "German Foreign Office" , the magazine of the Association of Germans Abroad. In 1930 Carl Fink was appointed editor-in-chief of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Zeitschriften deutscher Seevereine ( "Die See" , "Übersee" , "Deutschland zur See" ), and in 1934 he retired. Carl Fink died in 1943 at the age of 82.

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SURNAME Fink, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fink, Carl Emil Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1943