Dirk Hermann Voss

Dirk Hermann Voss , also Voss , (born February 9, 1960 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and media specialist. Until 2010 he was editor of the Catholic Sunday newspaper for Germany in Cologne.

Life

Voss studied law, economics and social sciences at the Universities of Augsburg and Würzburg . In 1985 he passed his second state examination as an assessor and worked for the diocese of Augsburg . In 1988 he was in Würzburg with the work Regions and Regionalism in the Law of the Member States of the European Community. Structural elements of a European constitutional system for both rights Doctor PhD . Since 1987 he has been head of the state church law department of the Augsburg Episcopal Chamber of Finance. From 1987 to the end of 2010 he was also the managing director of the Sankt Ulrich Verlag media group , which belongs to the Augsburg diocese, and was the publisher of the Catholic Sunday newspaper for Germany.

From 1984 to 1990 Voss was regional chairman of the Paneuropa-Jugend Bayern, from 1990 to 1998 treasurer of the Paneuropa-Union Germany , since 1998 its vice-president and also regional chairman of the Paneuropa-Union Bayern. Voss has also been the international Vice President of the Paneuropean Union since 2009. He is a member of the Rotary Club Augsburg-Fuggerstadt and familiare of the Teutonic Order .

In December 2006 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed as consultor to the Pontifical Media Council . In 2007 Voss received the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for his services to the Catholic publishing industry. He built the Sankt Ulrich Verlag media group into a cross-media church media company with weekly newspapers, a book publisher and regional television and radio holdings.

Since 2007 he has been media advisor to Bishop Walter Mixa and coordinator for public relations and media for the diocese of Augsburg. In April 2010 he was released from this role in connection with the resignation of Bishop Walter Mixa. In particular, critics within the church made him jointly responsible for the poor crisis management of Mixa in their opinion; His interview with Panorama in April 2010 was particularly controversial . Voss always stressed that he believed the statements of his episcopal boss and represented the position of the diocese of Augsburg.

On December 1, 2010, the diocese of Augsburg announced in a press release that Voss would give up his position as managing director of the Sankt Ulrich Verlag media group at the end of the year. So he should "concentrate in the future on the performance of his duties in the Episcopal Finance Chamber". The Bishop of Augsburg, Konrad Zdarsa , thanked Voss for his more than 20 years of service for the media group and the diocese: “Dr. Voss has made great contributions to the Sankt Ulrich Verlag and its media engagements ”. In the meantime, Voss and the Diocese of Augsburg have mutually agreed to terminate their contractual relationships by April 30, 2012 and the factual cooperation from August 1, 2011, because there were different opinions about their future structure. Since January 1, 2012, Voss has been working as a lawyer for the Augsburg business law firm Scheidle & Partner.

Web links

• Dirk Hermann Voss on augsburgwiki.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mixas press officer Voss dismissed. In: Spiegel online , April 23, 2010 ( online )
2. ^ Bishop Mixas media man killed. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , April 23, 2010 ( online ( memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
3. ↑ Bad crisis management Diocese of Augsburg dismisses Mixa's PR consultant. WORLD ( online )
4. ↑ Panorama, April 16, 2010 ( online ( Memento from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
5. ↑ Change in the management of the Sankt Ulrich Verlag media group , statement by the Augsburg diocese of December 1, 2010 ( online )
6. ↑ Diocese of Augsburg ( online )
7. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine ( online )
8. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung May 17, 2011, page 37
9. ↑ JUVE December 21, 2011 ( [1] )