Christian Delbrück

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Christian Delbrück (born September 25, 1944 in Lörrach ; † September 15, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and publishing manager.

Life

education

Delbrück graduated from boarding school Salem and studied in Hamburg Economics . He financed his studies z. B. as a test driver on the Hockenheimring or as a dock worker. During his student days, he sympathized with the 1968 movement without identifying himself deeply with it.

Journalistic and publishing work

In 1972 he began to work as a shipping and aviation editor for the economic department - under his "volunteer father" Hans-Henning Kroll - of the Hamburger Abendblatt, before moving to management in 1975: first assistant, then consultant in the management of the newspaper division, 1977 deputy publishing director, 1987 Publishing Director, 1990 Publishing Director, 1994 Publishing Director of the Hamburger Bild newspaper group . In 1996 he became a member of the board of directors of Axel Springer Verlag , where he was responsible for the magazine division. Four years later, after significant differences with the chairman of the board, August Fischer, he resigned and in 2001 became management spokesman at Vereinigte Motor-Verlagen in Stuttgart . In 2003 he returned to the Springer Group and became editor and chairman of the publishing house management at his journalistic home, the Hamburger Abendblatt .

family

Delbrück was married and had a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Uwe Bahnsen : A journalist at heart . In: Die Welt , September 21, 2006
  2. ^ "Farewell to the publisher" Hamburger Abendblatt August 5, 1994, read on February 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Delbrück, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and editor of the Hamburger Abendblatt
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2006
Place of death Hamburg