Ferdinand Simoneit

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Ferdinand Simoneit (born June 14, 1925 in Duisburg ; † April 3, 2010 in Löffingen ) was a German journalist , bestselling author and journalist teacher.

Life

He has written over 25 cover stories and 50 interviews, for example with Heinrich Nordhoff , Georg Leber , Nikita Khrushchev , Walter Ulbricht , Henry Ford II , for Spiegel magazine. He was also very successful as a writer , his second book, Die neue Bosse, was on the Spiegel bestseller list for 52 weeks in 1966/67 . For a long time he was a member of the jury at the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband , Dekra and the Association of Taxpayers . In 1995 he was the laudator at the World Press Photo Award . In 2012, the Ferdinand Simoneit Young Talent Award for Business and Financial Journalism will be presented for the first time by the Georg von Holtzbrinck School in cooperation with the Association of PSD Banks e. V. awarded. The prize for young talent, endowed with 10,000 euros, is intended to target young journalists from the business and finance departments.

Career history

Seriously wounded as a tank soldier in World War II, he was then imprisoned by the Soviets and interned in England. After the war he was briefly a port and construction worker in Duisburg . He then studied architecture , which he financed through his architectural reviews in newspapers (including in WAZ , Welt , Welt am Sonntag , Rheinische Post and others). As a journalist he was a reporter from Moscow and New Delhi .

From 1953 he did a journalistic training at the Rheinische Post . In 1955, as Spiegel editor, he was the first German journalist in the People's Republic of China . He was also head of the Düsseldorf editorial team and travel correspondent for the entire east. From 1971 to 1974 he was editor-in-chief of the business magazine Capital . He was the founder and publisher of the information services Capital Personal and Capital Confidential . In 1975 he became editorial director and member of the management of Motor Presse Stuttgart and founder of magazines (including Motor Klassik ). Ferdinand Simoneit was the initiator of the Stuttgart model, the training of trainees to become specialist journalists. From 1978 he was a lecturer for specialist journalism at the University of Hohenheim and from 1988 professor at the University of Hohenheim and editor-in-chief of the Hohenheim environmental journal . He was also the founder and first director of the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf and a leading employee at the Stuttgart Media Academy. He was also a lecturer in journalism at the University of Passau and at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Ravensburg , writing teacher for the ZDF volunteers in Mainz , teacher in the first course at the Bonn Journalists Academy, journalism advisor to corporations ( DaimlerChrysler , Laser-Leibinger , Dekra, Vogel-Verlag , Gong-Verlag ), member of the advisory board of the Mercedes group magazine , career advisor to the student association AIESEC and founding advisor to the financial test magazine of Stiftung Warentest in Berlin . For many years he was the European correspondent for the South American news magazine Progress.

Publications

Books

  • 1963: Ta Ta Tan Tan. The reality of Red China. Econ Düsseldorf (co-author)
  • 1966: The new bosses or so one becomes general director. Econ Düsseldorf (business book)
  • 1980: The Rosenthal story. Econ Düsseldorf (art book)
  • 1985: Indiscretion is a matter of honor. Ullstein Munich (journalist book)
  • 1989: … more than death. Ullstein Munich (war novel)
  • 1993: My friend is a painted attack dog. Lübbeverlag Berg Gladbach (to defend the car)
  • 1995: 49 heads of the German economy. Schäffer & Pöschel Verlag Stuttgart (editor) (business book)

Reports

  • The secret of Wolfsburg. In the secret development center of Volkswagen. (Mirror)
  • Visit to the horse bridge. In a commune in Red China. (Mirror)
  • Weissach think tank (Porsche's development center)
  • Interview with former Mercedes Cargroup boss Hubbert ( Playboy )
  • In the valley of death. Autotest in Death Valley / California.
  • Waiting in Tadjemout. Life in an abandoned Sahara oasis.
  • Ice cold on the Arctic Ocean at minus 40 degrees at the end of the world.
  • Two polecats in the desert, on a test drive in the Sahara.
  • Taxi to Singapore. 500 km through the jungle of Malaysia.
  • World Champion. What else? How young men plan their racing careers.

Publications about Simoneit

  • Everything about Simoneit (The Motor Presse volunteers about their teacher)
  • That's it (the students of the Georg von Holtzbrinck School about their trainer)
  • concerning Simoneit . House message in the mirror about Simoneit
  • Heinrich Nordhoff, KA Schenzinger, H. Simon and A. Zischka, Wilhelm Andermann Verlag, Munich

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personal data
SURNAME Simoneit, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, bestselling author and journalism teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2010
Place of death Loeffingen