Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell

Friedrich-Wilhelm Freiherr von Sell (born January 23, 1926 in Potsdam ; † October 20, 2014 ) was director of the WDR and ORB .

Career

The son of the officer Ulrich von Sell finished his school career at the Schloss Salem School in 1944 with the Abitur . After that he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and after the end of the Second World War he was a British prisoner of war until 1946 .

He then studied law and philosophy at the University of Erlangen and the Free University of Berlin , and passed his legal state exams in Berlin in 1950 and 1955. After working as administrative director and legal advisor at the SFB and Deutschlandfunk , from August 1960 he was authorized signatory and syndic of the "Deutsche Kreditsicherungs-KG" and at the " Treuhandverwaltung für das Deutsch-Dutch Finanzabkommen GmbH (Tredefina) " . From 1971 he acted as administrative and financial director of Westdeutscher Rundfunk and introduced organizational and accounting reforms in order to develop sensitivity towards economic principles in the program directorates. From 1976 he was WDR director for nine years and ARD chairman in 1978 and 1979 . During this time he was largely responsible for the regionalization of the WDR. From 1985 he worked again as a lawyer in Cologne and Bonn, in 1991 he was founding director of the ORB .

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell was married to Barbara "Barra" von Sell, b. Meller.

children

Philipp von Sell , film producer, formerly married to Esther Ofarim , now married to Philine von Sell
Julia von Sell , actress, director

Honors

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 12, 1986 .

Fonts

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell: More public! Memories . To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-934920-89-6 .

literature

Friedrich-Wilhelm Freiherr von Sell , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1991 of October 21, 1991, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell in the catalog of the German National Library
Biography of the WDR
Erhart Hohenstein: founding father of the ORB: "More public" Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sells memories on http://www.pnn.de/

Individual evidence

↑ Herzog, Christian (2014) Economic history of the WDR: The introduction of decentralized resource management and performance planning. In: M. Behmer, B. Bernard and B. Hasselbring (Eds.) Das Gedächtnis des Rundfunks. The archives of the public broadcasters and their relevance for research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 393-400 . Retrieved December 2, 2014.
↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sell, Friedrich-Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH	20th October 2014

[1] Herzog, Christian (2014) Economic history of the WDR: The introduction of decentralized resource management and performance planning. In: M. Behmer, B. Bernard and B. Hasselbring (Eds.) Das Gedächtnis des Rundfunks. The archives of the public broadcasters and their relevance for research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 393-400 . Retrieved December 2, 2014.

[2] Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .