Claus Jacobi (journalist)

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Claus Jacobi (born January 4, 1927 in Hamburg ; † August 17, 2013 there ) was a German journalist .

Life

Jacobi, the son of a businessman , was a midshipman in the Navy at the end of the Second World War . In 1946 he began as a trainee at Hamburger Allgemeine und Welt . He worked for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit for four years . For more than 30 years Jacobi worked in various journalistic positions with major German press organs: At Spiegel he worked as a political correspondent in Bonn and Washington, and from 1962 to 1968, together with Johannes K. Engel, was its editor-in-chief . In the course of the Spiegel affair , Jacobi was arrested together with Engel, Conrad Ahlers and Rudolf Augstein and headed the paper with Engel during Augstein's one hundred days imprisonment, which he left in 1968 with the unusually high severance payment of one million DM. After a rather short time (1969) at Stern , he was editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag in 1970 and its publisher until the end of 1998 . In 1973 he moved to Wirtschaftswoche as editor-in-chief , from where he went to the world in 1974, where he became editor-in-chief and later also publisher and editorial director at Bild-Zeitung at Springer.

Until his death, Jacobi worked as a columnist for the Bild newspaper ("Mein Tagebuch"). There he criticized, among other things, the emancipation of homosexuals that has taken place in recent years . He was also a book author .

In 2003 he was awarded the Golden Pen for his many years of service as editor-in-chief of Welt and Welt am Sonntag .

From 1971 until her death on February 21, 2012, he was married to the painter Heike Jacobi . She was the initiator of the “Hamburg wishes” for seriously ill children. Both his wife and Claus Jacobi found their final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • The human spring tide , Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna 1969
  • We have 100 years left. Causes and effects of the population explosion , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-550-07739-4
  • as editor, together with Josef Nyáry : My most beautiful passage from the Bible. Confessions of believing people , Munich and Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7766-1523-0
  • as editor: I believe that. Confessions of Prominent Today , Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7766-1546-X
  • Strangers, friends, enemies. A private contemporary history , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-550-07804-8
  • Departure between the Elbe and the Oder. The new German states , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-550-07084-5
  • 50 years of Axel Springer Verlag. 1946–1996 , Berlin and Hamburg 1996
  • The chocolate king. The incredible life of Hans Imhoff , Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7844-2650-6
  • Our fifty years. Memories of a contemporary witness , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7766-2117-6
  • together with Tom Jacobi: Where God lives. Mythical places of mankind , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7774-8780-5
  • In the wheel of history. German conditions , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7766-2237-7
  • The publisher Axel Springer. A biography up close , Herbig, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7766-2440-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former SPIEGEL editor-in-chief: Mourning for Claus Jacobi at Spiegel.de, accessed on August 18, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Willi Winkler : Alster-Aristokrat , Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 19, 2013, p. 23
  3. ^ Obituary in the WAZ: Journalist Claus Jacobi dies - "One like no one" (accessed on May 9, 2015)
  4. ^ Stefan Niggemeier : Claus Jacobi, Günter Kießling & the gays ; August 28, 2009
  5. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Claus Jacobi
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2013
Place of death Hamburg