Edmund Pesch

Edmund Pesch (born April 6, 1903 in Giesenkirchen , † 1992 in Cologne ) was a journalist and feature writer as well as editor-in-chief at the Kölnische and Bonner Rundschau .

Life

As the son of the printer and publisher Jakob Pesch, Edmund Pesch got to know the newspaper industry as a teenager.

From 1924 Pesch worked as a local editor for the Allgemeine Zeitung Coesfeld . In 1935, NS Gauleiter Alfred Meyer imposed a professional ban on Pesch for the so-called Gau Nördliches Westfalen. Pesch was able to move to the Gau Südliches Westfalen, to Dortmund, to the local newspaper Tremonia , where he was in charge of the features section. The commander of the military area command Lieutenant Colonel Curt Schlettwein rented his house in Coesfeld . Imprisoned as a political prisoner by the Gestapo from autumn 1944 to April 1945 , Pesch escaped thanks to a guard shortly before the end of the war and since summer 1945 has worked for the Ruhr newspaper , which was published by the British military government .

CDU announcement poster for an event with Edmund Pesch, 1949

At the newly founded Westfalenpost , Pesch had been editor-in-chief since 1946, first in Soest , and from 1950 in Hagen . From 1956, until his retirement in 1968, Pesch worked as editor-in-chief of the influential Kölnische and Bonner Rundschau and was considered a confidante of the former Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer .

Edmund Pesch was married to Maria Sasse from Coesfeld .

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helene Wentker: From the newspaper maker to Adenauer's confidante. Edmund Pesch and August Boenisch outstanding editors of the AZ / Stadtarchivar Damberg looking for clues in 175 years of the "Allgemeine Zeitung" , anniversary edition of September 2nd, 2009
2. ↑ Dieter Westendorf, Hans-Jochen Westendorf: Fates of the Jewish Coesfelder between threat and murder 1919-1945 , p. 144 [1]