Franz Greiner (journalist)

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Franz Greiner ( pseudonym : Werner Pank ; born June 1, 1919 in Leipzig , † 1987 ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Greiner did military service from 1939 to 1945. He then studied at the University of Goettingen and was 1952 in Classic Philology Dr. phil. PhD. From 1949 to 1952 he was a student co-editor of the Deutsche Universitätszeitung .

From 1952 to 1965 he was editor, from 1960 editor-in-chief of the magazine Herder Korrespondenz . He was also editor-in-chief of the world of books until 1965 . In 1965 he became head of social education and deputy head of the main culture department at WDR . From 1976 to 1982 he acted as program group leader Family and Society and deputy head of the culture program area.

From 1966 to 1971 he was editor and editor of Hochland and in 1972 co-editor of the international Catholic magazine Communio . He was also a publisher and managing director at Communio-Verlag. Greiner published several books.

Greiner was Catholic, married and the father of three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The notions of fate in Virgil's Aeneid and the artistic means of their representation . Dissertation Göttingen 1952.
  • The hunger in the world. Solidarity or class struggle between peoples? . Herder, Basel a. a. 1959.
  • with Dietrich Goldschmidt , Helmut Schelsky (ed.): Sociology of the Church Community . Enke, Stuttgart 1960.
  • In the middle of the square. Novel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • et al .: Catholicism and Church. On the way of German Catholicism after 1945 . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1965.
  • Human choice. The international population issue today and tomorrow . Johannes-Verlag, Einsiedeln 1967.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roegele, Otto B .: Franz Greiner died. In: Communio , VI / 1987, p. 575, accessed on May 11, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pank, Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1987