Friedhelm Kemna

Friedhelm Kemna (born November 14, 1925 in Dortmund , † March 28, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Career

Until 1943 he attended school and high school in Dortmund and Bad Godesberg . From 1943 to 1945 Kemna served in the Wehrmacht , most recently as a lieutenant in a tank regiment. He was wounded in 1944. In the years 1945 to 1950 Kemna first made up her Abitur and then studied German and general linguistics in Bonn and Cologne .

After graduating, Kemna worked from 1950 to 1961 as a correspondent for the American news agency United Press International (UPI) in offices in Bonn, London and Berlin . Kemna then worked as a correspondent for Die Welt in Hamburg , London and Berlin until 1967 . From 1967 to 1972, Kemna reported from Hong Kong and Saigon as a correspondent for the world on Southeast Asia . From 1972 to 1979 he headed the world editorial department in Berlin and was deputy editor-in-chief and head of the international department of the world in Bonn until 1983 . In 1990 Kemna took over the chief editor of the Bonn General-Anzeiger . His resolute advocacy of Berlin as the federal capital brought him into conflict with his publishers and led to his dismissal in September 1990. He then worked again as a world author in Berlin and the new federal states. From 1995 to 1998 Kemna was engaged as a media advisor to the President of the German Bundestag .

The book Dictatorships in the Neck (Munich: Delp) published by Rolf Italiaander in 1971 contains Friedhelm Kemna's contribution Between Democracy and Dictatorship in Southeast Asia .

Honors

• October 1, 1999: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin

Web links

• Friedhelm Kemna died , In: Der Tagesspiegel, April 4, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data of Friedhelm Kemna in: Who is who - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 700, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .