Franz Wauschkuhn

Friedrich-Franz Wauschkuhn (born July 10, 1945 in Hamburg ) is a German business journalist , financial historian and book author .

Life

Franz Wauschkuhn's mother was a teacher and a clerk. She came from a shipowner family from Bremerhaven . His father fell as a major in January 1945. Wauschkuhn has sailed in the port of Hamburg, on the Elbe and the North Sea since childhood. He attended the Christianeum humanistic high school in Hamburg-Othmarschen. Politically, he was shaped by his mother's circle of friends, where those who were racially persecuted by the Nazi regime and social democrats who had returned to Hamburg from exile met. As a lawyer and concentration camp survivor, Conrad Baasch dealt with hundreds of so-called reparation cases. He promoted Wauschkuhn in Latin and Greek and gave him historical education. The most important reading was Egon Friedell's “Cultural History of the Modern Age” . With the aim of becoming a journalist, he studied economics, economic and social history at the University of Hamburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt . He received his doctorate summa cum laude in Hamburg. The subject of his doctoral thesis was early industrialization in Württemberg.

Hermann Rasch, top manager at Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg , found him hired as editor of the daily newspaper Die Welt , where he published his first business reports in the "Geistige Welt" (headed by Günther Zehm ). There he met Willy Haas , Franz Kafka's friend , and the historian Walter Görlitz . Before Die Welt relocated from Hamburg to Bonn, Wauschkuhn went to Cologne for a year in 1973 at the Institute for the German Economy (IW). He then returned to the “Welt” editorial team as a political correspondent for North Rhine-Westphalia. There he was supported by Axel Springer's long-time friend / advisor Ernst Cramer and editor-in-chief Peter Boenisch (BILD, Welt).

In Bonn / Düsseldorf he maintained connections with Herbert Wehner , Heinz Kühn , Hans Apel , Detlev Rohwedder and Kurt Biedenkopf . In the autumn of 1978 he moved within the Axel Springer Group to the Hamburger Abendblatt as head of duty and chief reporter. He wrote reports from the USA, the Rhodesia and Angola wars, the GDR economy, the shipyard workers' strikes in Gdansk and visits to the Kremlin. Axel Springer, who knew Wauschkuhn's family origins well, repeatedly motivated him to write down his mother's dramatic life. Shortly before the publisher's death, at the request of NDR director Friedrich Wilhelm Räuker, he moved to the business editorial office of NDR radio (90.3). He also wrote for Die Welt, Welt am Sonntag, Rheinische Merkur and publications for German business associations and the craft sector. Among other things, he was made honorary master of the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts.

After the reunification, Detlev Rohwedder, the then President of the Treuhandanstalt , asked him to become his press spokesman. For this he was released from the NDR. For Federal Minister of Economics Günter Rexrodt (FDP), he worked as a press spokesman from autumn 1993. At the end of 1995, Wauschkuhn returned to the NDR in Hamburg because of his passion for sailing, where he was head of the economy department until 2005. He then worked as press spokesman for Norddeutsche Affinerie AG (now Aurubis AG ). Since 2008 he has devoted himself scientifically to the history of finance and banking. He is married and has four children. The second daughter was murdered by a member of the "Black Muslim" movement.

Book publications

• The Löbbecke banking house . Hamburg 2009
• Fritz Klein . Hamburg 2007
• Heinrich Otte. A life for auditing . Hamburg 2011
• The trip to Föhr… Hamburg 2015 ISBN 978-3-00-052232-1
• Joachim Herz . Hamburg 2018
• Thomas Straubhaar / Franz Wauschkuhn: Schifffahrtszyklen , Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2018 ISBN 978-3-95510-186-2
• Max & Consorten , Roman. Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2019 ISBN 978-3-95510-181-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shipping Cycles . Retrieved June 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Max & Consorten. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .