Franz Rodens

Franz Rodens (born June 7, 1900 , † November 23, 1972 ) was a German journalist and author.

Life

Before the Second World War, Rodens worked as a culture editor for the West German observer , then from July to November 1940 for the newly founded occupation organ Brussels newspaper . He then went to Paris as a correspondent and reported from there for both of the aforementioned newspapers and Das Reich . After the war Rodens was a correspondent in Bonn from 1949 to 1955 for the Osnabrücker Neue Tagespost , the Berliner Tag and the Recklinghausen magazine Echo der Zeit . From 1958 he worked as a freelance journalist. Rodens was a founding member of the Federal Press Conference and from February 15 to May 19, 1953 its chairman.

Rodens wrote a number of works that deal mainly with art and politics, the majority of which appeared during the National Socialist era . After the Second World War he wrote a. a. Biographies about Konrad Adenauer and Jean Rey .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Gunnar Krüger: We're not an exclusive club! The federal press conference in the Adenauer era. LIT-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8342-6 , p. 196, footnote 139.
2. ^ Andreas Laska: Presse et propaganda en France occupée: des Moniteurs officiels (1870–1871) à la Gazette des Ardennes (1914–1918) et à la Pariser Zeitung (1940–1944) . Utz , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0293-X (French, with a German summary; at the same time press history dissertation in the “Cotutelle process”), p. 260 and Rolf Falter: De Bruxelles newspaper (1940–1944). In: Historica Lovaniensia 137, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Faculty of History), Löwen 1982, pp. 66 and 69. Laska made a mistake here, he cites the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung as the prewar newspaper , but this has only existed since 1948. His The manual used by the German daily press from 1937 is listed by Rodens as stated in the West German Observer .