Claus Hecking

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Claus Hecking (* 1975 in Vreden ) is a German journalist and political scientist.

Life and work

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , Hecking studied business administration, law and politics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and the Université Libre in Brussels . During this time he wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. On the nationality dispute between Flemings and Walloons in Belgium , he completed a television, radio and online traineeship at Deutsche Welle in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels in 2003 and 2004 .

From 2004 to 2005, Hecking worked as a spokesman in the corporate communications and politics department at BMW . From 2005 onwards he worked as a reporter and Brussels correspondent for the Financial Times Deutschland and Capital , and from 2015 onwards as a business editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Since 2017 he has been an author for Spiegel Online and an editor at Capital focusing on energy , Europe , aviation and globalization . In 2018, he and the journalists Georg Fahrion and Volker Pabst won the German Journalism Prize in the world economy category for the article “China's New Plan”.

With his wife Mirjam Hecking, he runs the Total Global blog , which reports on international business.

Publications

  • Flemings and Walloons: strange neighbors in Belgium? Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89825-493-3 .
  • The Belgian political system. Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3724-9 .
  • The party system of Belgium. In: Oskar Niedermayer , Richard Stöss , Melanie Haas (eds.): The party systems of Western Europe. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-531-14111-2 .
  • The political system. In: Johannes Koll (Ed.): Belgium. History - politics - culture - economy . Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-00408-1 .
  • Belgium Expert Report. In: Bertelsmann Stiftung (Ed.): Sustainable Governance Indicators. Gütersloh 2009.
  • With Rolf Elgeti: residential properties. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89879-838-9 .
  • With Charlotte Schönberger and Ilka Sokolowski: Our future is now! Fight like Greta Thunberg for the climate . Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7891-1492-2 .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ resume , claushecking.com
  2. ^ Zeit Conference on Natural Gas & Climate Protection: Spokesperson , Die Zeit , October 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Georg Fahrion, Claus Hecking and Volker Pabst: Project Silk Road: China's New Plan , Capital , September 21, 2018.
  4. ^ Award , Welt am Sonntag , November 23, 2008.
  5. ↑ Record-breaking journalist award , DJV NRW, November 1, 2008.
  6. ↑ djp winner 2009 , German Journalist Award (djp)
  7. ^ Winner: Karl Buchrucker Prize , journalistenpreise.de
  8. ↑ State Street Prize for Financial Journalists 2014 awarded ( Memento from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), state-street-preis.de, November 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ Winner: ERM Media Prize for Sustainable Development , hfwu.de
  10. ^ Winner: Aerospace Media Prize, bdli.de
  11. ↑ djp winner 2018 , German Journalist Award (djp)
personal data
SURNAME Hecking, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Vreden