Carl Gustaf Ströhm
Carl Gustaf Ströhm (born March 8, 1930 in Tallinn , † May 14, 2004 in Vienna ) was a German journalist .
The son of a German-Baltic and a Russian studied history and Slavic studies and received his doctorate in Tübingen . His reporter work began with the uprising in Hungary in 1956. From 1966 to 1972 for the broadcaster Deutsche Welle , from 1972 to 1999 for the daily newspaper Die Welt and until the end of his life for the Berlin weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit , Ströhm worked as a correspondent for Eastern Europe. Since the 1970s, Ströhm has been a knowledgeable critic and analyst of the political situation behind the "Iron Curtain". While he was a journalist, he refrained from meeting the communist rulers. His interest in ordinary people and oppositional intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc and his contacts with them meant that he was convinced at an early stage of the collapse of the socialist states, especially Yugoslavia.
He was responsible for the column "View to the East" in the Junge Freiheit with regard to the effects of the EU's eastward expansion on the peoples of Eastern Europe. Beyond the statements of the respective state governments, he looked at the conditions in the Eastern European countries and critically questioned what the EU eastward expansion meant for the peoples in Eastern Europe beyond official opinion.
He was a member of the board of trustees at the Weikersheim study center , worked for Kurt Ziesel's Deutschland Magazin and Criticón, and gave a lecture at the Hamburg-based state and economic society .
literature
- A heart for the small nations: On the death of Carl Gustaf Ströhm on Welt-Online on May 16, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ströhm, Carl Gustaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | conservative German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 2004 |
| Place of death | Vienna |