Ernst-Alfred Jauch

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Ernst-Alfred Jauch (born September 8, 1920 in Wesel ; † October 6, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Life

Jauch comes from the Hanseatic family Jauch . He was born the fourth of six children of the later Colonel and Freikorpsführer Hans Jauch (1883-1965) and Elsa von Othegraven . He was married to Ursula Welter (1930-2005). The oldest of three children is the television presenter and journalist Günther Jauch (* 1956).

Jauch passed the Abitur in 1939 at the State Humanistic Gymnasium Wesel . His classmate and friend, together with him also an active member of the Bund New Germany , was the later martyr of the Catholic Church Heinz Bello (1920–1944).

Jauch was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and military service and most recently served as a reserve lieutenant in an artillery regiment. He was seriously wounded three times and was awarded EK II . Of his brothers - all officers of the artillery like him - two died and the third (initially) disappeared in Stalingrad .

In 1943 he was able to begin studying German, history and philosophy in Breslau , which he continued in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1944 and, after the war, in Bonn and then again in Freiburg. In 1949 he passed the state examination in philology and received his doctorate in 1951. phil.

Jauch began his journalistic career in 1953 as a trainee at the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf . After an interim position as an assistant in the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, he was head of politics at the Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster from 1956 to 1959 . 1959–1961 he was head of the internal politics department of the Berlin “ Der Tag ” published by Johann Baptist Gradl , since 1961 its deputy editor-in-chief. From 1962 to 1964 he was the Berlin correspondent for the Catholic News Agency (KNA) , and from 1965 to 1985 he was head of the KNA's Berlin office. In his aegis, the KNA began publishing a daily Berlin service. He also built up an extensive editorial archive , mainly on church and state in the GDR .

Jauch was able to formulate pointedly and survived church official attempts to remove him from his position. Herbert Vorgrimler criticized: "The tactics of the 'Christian' anti-communism documented here consists in the presumptuous claim: KNA, Jauch, etc. determine with whom the dialogue is conducted." He publicly argued with Rolf Hochhuth about his play " Der Stellvertreter ".

In 1968 Jauch was the organizer of the World Congress of the World Union of the Catholic Press UCIP (today: ICOM ) in Berlin and has since been one of the Catholic journalists known far beyond the country's borders. Since 1974 he has been a permanent employee of the GDR manual published by the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations . Jauch was one of the most well-known experts on the Catholic Church in the east and tried - closely connected with the Polish Catholic movement Znak and its representatives in the Sejm - to achieve reconciliation with Poland. In 1971 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his services and in 1985 the silver Hedwig Medal , the highest award of the Archdiocese of Berlin .

Quotes

“I don't understand what Günther does, but it is well paid for. Nobody knows why. "

- Ernst-Alfred Jauch about his son Günther Jauch

Works

  • Ernst-Alfred Jauch: 75 years of the Church of the Holy Family 1904–1979 . Berlin 1979
  • Ernst-Alfred Jauch / Gisela Helwig, Catholic Church , in: Helwig, Gisela / Urban, Detlef (eds.), Churches and Society in both German States , Cologne 1987.
  • Ernst-Alfred Jauch / Reinhard Henkys: Keyword “Churches” in the GDR Handbook , ed. v. BunMin for intra-German relations, 2nd edition, Cologne 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KDG Wesel> Former> Abitur graduates> 1944–1900, born in 1939 , photo
  2. ^ Fritz Schubert in: Rheinische Post : Heinz Bello: shot for criticism. July 29, 2010, accessed September 27, 2011 .
  3. ↑ 50 Years of KNA - A Review, Bonn 2002
  4. ↑ Martin Höllen: Loyal Distance ?: 1966 to 1990 , vol. 1: 1966 to 1976, 2008, p. 295 on the request of the Berlin prelate Msgr. Otto Groß in 1972 to recall Jauch
  5. ^ Frankfurter Hefte, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik, Volume 26, Issue 2, 1971, p. 675
  6. ↑ Jauch, Ernst Alfred, “From a Catholic perspective.” In: Berliner Morgenpost, February 24, 1963; another., “Take an emetic ....” WB March 10, 1963
  7. ↑ Ferdinand Oertel: The church newspaper man: memories from fifty years of journalism , Münster 2009, p. 155
  8. ↑ Cf. Peter Christian Ludz , Johannes Kuppe (ed.): GDR manual: Scientific director: Peter Christian Ludz , Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik 1975
  9. ↑ Andreas Ballenberger: Everything you don't need to know: The Lexicon of Amazing Facts, Norderstedt 2010, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Jauch, Ernst-Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1991
Place of death Berlin