Franz Wördemann

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Franz Wördemann (born May 29, 1923 in Münster , † March 16, 1992 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German journalist and non-fiction author .

Life

Franz Wördemann came from a merchant family and grew up in Münster. There he first attended a grammar school before he then switched to the boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck near Goch , where he graduated from high school in 1942 . After the Second World War , he studied philology at the university in his hometown for four years .

He then worked from 1950 to 1953 in London for the BBC , for their Overseas Service he then in 1953 as a correspondent in the former German capital Bonn went. Wördemann then worked from 1957 to 1960 in Cologne as an editor for WDR and Deutsche Welle, and from 1960/61 as a documentary writer in Washington .

In 1962, Wördemann was appointed editor-in-chief of television at WDR and, in 1972, he was also head of programs and head of the political program department. During these years of his activity and under his responsibility, television programs such as Monitor and Weltspiegel , both of which he moderated himself at times, were developed and broadcast for the first time. Wördemann also moderated programs from other broadcasters, such as the Report magazine in 1964/65, which at the time was still jointly produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Südwestfunk .

From 1973 to 1976 the CDU member Wördemann was editor-in-chief of the Münchner Merkur newspaper . In the 1980s, Wördemann was present on television as the presenter of the WDR's current hour .

He also translated and wrote books, of which the one about terrorism from 1977 to the present day is widely quoted.

Franz Wördemann died at the age of 68 and was buried in the cemetery in Herrsching am Ammersee.

Quotes

  • "The [...] guerrilla tends to occupy the space in order to later capture the thinking, the terrorist occupy the thinking because he cannot take the space."
  • “Terrorism is the extreme form of psychological warfare that is practiced by the organizationally reduced, hidden group. In this psychological warfare the seductive word is replaced by the seductive deed. "

Books

  • From the big brother. TV stories. Informedia, Cologne 1974. (= Adventure television. )
  • with the assistance of Hans-Joachim Löser : Terrorism. Motives, perpetrators, strategies. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-492-02261-8 . Paperback edition: Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main / Berlin / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-548-34011-3 (= Ullstein books 34011).
  • The booty belongs to Allah. The history of the Arabs in Spain. With 41 photos by Ulfert Kasten . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-492-02794-6 .

Translations

  • David J. Dallin : The Soviet Espionage. Principles and practices. Publishing house for politics and economy, Cologne 1956.
  • Chester Bowles : The Great Peace. Limits and possibilities. Publishing house for politics and economy, Cologne 1957.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel, 197203901800180
  2. ^ Rolf Henkel: Print from Lazarettstrasse? In: Die Zeit , No. 32/1975.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Franz Wördemann
  4. ^ Franz Wördemann with the assistance of Hans-Joachim Löser: Terrorism. Motives, perpetrators, strategies. Munich u. Zurich: Piper 1977. p. 57.
  5. ^ Franz Wördemann with the assistance of Hans-Joachim Löser: Terrorism. Motives, perpetrators, strategies. Munich u. Zurich: Piper 1977. p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Wördemann, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1992
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee