Friedbert Barg

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Friedbert Barg (* July 22, 1947 ; † September 13, 2014 ) was a German specialist journalist and specialist book author.

Life

Since 2008 publisher and editor-in-chief of the journals “Schifffahrt-online” and “Schifffahrts-Magazin” , he was editor-in-chief of the trade journal “Binnenschifffahrt” from 1994 to 2008 . During this time the magazine was published by the Federal Association of German Inland Shipping (BDB), the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways, the Port Technical Society and the Federal Association of Public Inland Ports.

Born in Duisburg, he got to know inland shipping and the German and European waterways as a cabin boy and seaman from 1962 to 1965. After completing his inland navigation apprenticeship, he joined the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a police officer in 1965. He took his first journalistic steps in 1972 with the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) in Duisburg and then with the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf.

Barg, who also had experience as a press officer and an author, was in front of his work as editor of the journal "inland waterway" from 1983 to 1986 chief editor of the "city panorama" in Ratingen and 1986-1994 editor of the Essen Neue Ruhr Zeitung / Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ). In the course of his professional years as a specialist journalist on the subject of shipping, Barg traveled to many rivers and lakes in the world - in addition to the Western European ones - to report on shipping, the ships and the people on these rivers and lakes.

In 2008, the specialist journalist founded the online specialist magazine “Schiffstechnik / Binnenschifffahrt - Inland Ports - Inland Waterways” , which was renamed “Schifffahrt online” in the December issue and has been published monthly since then. In addition to “Schifffahrt-online” , the “Schifffahrts-Magazin” was published as a printed magazine in magazine format from May 2009 by F. Barg Verlag UG (limited liability).

In November 2011 Friedbert Barg was elected to the board of trustees of the funding company of the Museum of German Inland Shipping . The development company has 133 private and 64 corporate memberships. Barg was a member of the Düsseldorf Journalists Association (chairman from 1994 to 1996). In 1999 Friedbert Barg initiated and founded the Association of European Shipping Journalists (VEUS), to which 60 shipping journalists from seven European countries belonged when it was founded.

Friedbert Barg died on September 13, 2014 in Düsseldorf. With his death, the shipping magazine was discontinued.

Awards

1999: European Journalism Award of the European Movement Germany for his contributions in the journal “Binnenschifffahrt” on the introduction of the euro.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Rheinische Post . September 17, 2014, archived from the original on October 20, 2014 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Barg, Friedbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist journalist and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1947
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2014