German Council for Public Relations

The German Council for Public Relations (DRPR) is a registered association and, according to its own statements, an organ of voluntary self-regulation of PR professionals working in Germany . It was founded in May 1987 and is supported by the German Public Relations Society , the Public Relations Agencies Society and the Federal Association of Communicators . The involvement of the German Society for Political Advice ended in dispute in October 2017.

The council sees it as its mandate to punish communicative misconduct vis-à-vis the public and in this respect compares itself with the German Press Council and the German Advertising Council . The benchmark for his work is the PR code of conduct “Code de Lisbonne”.

The chairman was Günter Bentele from May 2012 to the end of 2017 . Lars Rademacher was unanimously elected as his successor on January 1, 2018 .

Based on a resolution from May 2019, the DRPR issued a warning to Wikipedia Germany due to insufficient transparency regarding paid author work. Since the guidelines for labeling German Wikipedia entries had not been changed by spring 2020, the DRPR then issued a complaint to Wikipedia in April 2020 as announced. The background to this are divergent principles of transparency: Wikipedia initially grants the authors complete freedom, but allows the "community" to correct articles afterwards and sees the sender identification as given via author profiles and discussion pages. For the DRPR, on the other hand, the transparency of the sender identification must be established in advance and is given if authors are in the immediate vicinity of an article and can be recognized at first glance.

Web links

Website of the German Council for Public Relations
Günter Bentele remains DRPR Chairman PR Report, December 5, 2014
Rules for scientific public relations : "" Guidelines for good scientific PR ", guidelines and checklist

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Dillmann: Zoff in the DRPR: de'ge'pol resigns and covers BdP, DPRG and GPRA with allegations. In: PR-Journal.de. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
↑ DRPR elects Rademacher as chairman. In: bdp-net.de (Federal Association of German Press Spokespersons). January 16, 2018, accessed January 22, 2020 .
^ Thomas Dillmann: German Council for Public Relations reprimands Wikipedia Germany. In: PR Journal - The online portal for PR and communication: news. PR-Journal Verlag GmbH, Siegburg, April 21, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 .

[1] Thomas Dillmann: Zoff in the DRPR: de'ge'pol resigns and covers BdP, DPRG and GPRA with allegations. In: PR-Journal.de. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .

[2] DRPR elects Rademacher as chairman. In: bdp-net.de (Federal Association of German Press Spokespersons). January 16, 2018, accessed January 22, 2020 .

[3] Thomas Dillmann: German Council for Public Relations reprimands Wikipedia Germany. In: PR Journal - The online portal for PR and communication: news. PR-Journal Verlag GmbH, Siegburg, April 21, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 .