Detlef Untermann

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Detlef Untermann

Detlef Untermann (born November 6, 1952 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German journalist and communications manager .

Life

After high school and military service, studied under man from 1974 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) in Münster first law and later also business administration . In November 1979 he passed the first state examination in law and in January 1980 began a traineeship with the Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster.

From the Westfälische Nachrichten, for which he was still working as an editor in the political department, Untermann moved to Münchner Merkur as deputy head of politics in 1984 . In 1986 he went to Bayerischer Rundfunk and took over the management of the internal policy editorial office ( radio ). In 1989 he returned to Münchner Merkur, where he initially headed the editorial team of the Tölzer Kurier and later that of the Garmisch-Partenkirchner Tagblatt. From there he moved to Berlin in 1992 and built up the capital city office of the Märkische Oderzeitung as a correspondent .

Even while he was working as a journalist, Untermann was active in the field of public relations and since 1977 has been deployed as a reserve officer in the press and public relations of the Bundeswehr and NATO - most recently as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve. In 1996 he switched full-time from journalism to PR and headed corporate communications at Berlin Hyp (Berlin-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank), a subsidiary of what was then Bankgesellschaft Berlin . There he was also responsible for communications in the real estate area. Especially during the time of the Berlin banking scandal, he took over crisis management for Klaus Landowsky.

In 2003 he went to the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) to set up communication management. In 2005 he left the transport company and founded butterfly communications | his own communication agency. In this function he supervised Dr. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, the director of Zoo Berlin and Tierpark Berlin, in 2008, when it came under public criticism.

Since 2006 Untermann has taken on several teaching positions on communication topics at the Free University of Berlin and the Berlin University of Technology and Economics . He is also a speaker at various private educational institutions. In 2009, he founded the training company Butterfly Academy, which specializes in corporate communication issues and can fall back on prominent speakers such as TV presenter Bettina Böttinger or the former government spokesman and acting editor-in-chief of Bayernkurier , Peter Hausmann . Meanwhile, the range of services of the Butterfly Academy under the umbrella of butterfly communications | offered.

Detlef Untermann (left) at an event organized by the Association of German Engineers (2013).

Untermann has also been hired to moderate events since the beginning of the 2010s . He is invited as a speaker and discussion partner on communication topics.

Untermann has been responsible for the Berlin-Macher column in the Berlin magazine for urban development Berlin vis-à-vis since 2005 . He runs the blog Grandpa's Blog - Thoughts of a Grandfather , in which he deals with family topics every day. Selected texts also appear in the Huffington Post and the online edition of the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel , with which “Opas Blog” cooperates. Another blog project is called “Z for Time - The Infinity of a Second”, in which he deals with the subject of time from various angles.

Untermann has been married since 1976 and has two grown daughters.

Social Commitment

Untermann is a mentor and Berlin coordinator in the Alumni Club Münster, reading mentor at the Humboldthain primary school in Berlin-Wedding and a mentor in the German Public Relations Society . Until 2009 he was a member of the CDU Berlin. He is now a member of the FDP. In 2014 the Friends of the University of the Arts in Berlin, in which he was active for many years on the advisory board and board of directors, awarded him honorary membership "in recognition of his services to the promotion of the visual arts and young artists". He is the ambassador of the Federal Association Initiative 50plus and takes care of the topic of "Internet and Seniors". At the beginning of 2015 he launched the “KINDER | COOK “into life, which u. a. with cooking courses for school classes, aims to sensitize children to table culture and a respectful and responsible handling of food as well as a balanced diet and was converted into a registered association at the end of 2016.

Others

In the same year, together with other descendants, he reviewed the artistic work of his great-great-grandfather, the German genre painter Gisbert Flüggen , and documented the results on a website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Technology day  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tag-der-technik-bb.de
  2. http://www.vdi-bb.de/gallery3/Machiavelli-oder-Sokrates-mit-welcher-Ethik-f-hren-wir-heute Discussion: Machiavelli or Sokrates - With which ethics do we lead?
  3. Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Discussion: How much technology does medicine need?  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tag-der-technik-bb.de
  4. http://www.dprg.de/Mektiven/Ideale-in-Handlungen-umsetzen/269 Interview with Karl Jüsten
  5. http://player.vimeo.com/video/79726517?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=7292c2 WP Camp 2013 Berlin
  6. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Salon conversation  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwg-ev.net
  7. Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fdp-steglitz-zehlendorf.de
  8. http://www.bundesverband-initiative-50plus.de/botschafter/detlef-untermann/ Ambassador of the Federal Association Initiative 50plus
  9. Gisbert Flüggen - The German Wilkie