Friedrich Vogel (publisher)

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Friedrich Vogel (born February 23, 1902 in Düsseldorf ; † March 2, 1976 ibid) was a German publisher and business journalist .

Life

Vogel was born the son of a Reichsbahn assistant ; his father perished during the German October (1923). The Düsseldorf notary Friedrich Maase was considered to be Vogel's foster father . After graduating from the Hindenburg School in Düsseldorf in 1920 , he studied law and economics at the University of Greifswald , the University of Cologne and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1924 he was promoted to Dr. oec. publ. PhD .

He was a working student at the employers' association for the north-western group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists . Then he was assistant to Josef Wilden , President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1926 to 1944 he worked as a trainee and later as a business editor at the regional newspaper Düsseldorfer Nachrichten published by Wilhelm Girardet. In autumn 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as an interpreter . He served in Munster and Berlin.

After the Second World War he was active in rebuilding the German press landscape . So he re-established the Rhenish-Westphalian Association of Journalists and was elected chairman. From 1947 he was a member of the board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitungsverleger-Verein . He was also Vice Chairman of the Press Council for the British Zone of Occupation (Zone Press Council). From 1959 to 1965 he was chairman of the advertising committee at the Central Association of the German Advertising Industry (ZAW), of which he had been a member since 1955. From 1958 he was also a member of the committee for international advertising issues, which he chaired from 1966. He also became a member of the Advisory Board of the German-English Society and a member of the Presidium of the German-French Circle in Düsseldorf. He also influenced the founding of the Union of European Economic and Financial Press in 1962; Vogel advocated European integration .

In 1946, together with the journalist Herbert Gross, he founded the liberal business newspaper Handelsblatt , of which he later became director and co-editor. Gross initially received the license, but renounced it in the same year. The first edition of the newspaper appeared on May 16, 1946. Ideally, Vogel was close to Ludwig Erhard and his social market economy and pursued a balance between employer and employee interests in his paper. Looking for a successor in the 1960s, the well-known publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck and his publishing group joined Handelsblatt GmbH in 1968 . Together with von Holtzbrinck, he formulated principles for the independence of the newspaper (“Any dependence on interests of any kind is rejected”). In 1971 he withdrew from active business and sold his shares.

He had been married since 1939 and had no children.

Awards

Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation

After the death of Mr and Mrs Bird and bequests in 1984 by the Society of publicist education the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation in Hagen founded with an endowment of 1.3 million D-marks, which since 1985 annually Frederick Bird prices for Business journalism (main prizes endowed with 3000 euros each) is awarded. The long-time chairman of the foundation was today's honorary chairman of the board, Michael Laumanns , publisher of the Lippstadt daily newspaper Der Patriot .

Others

During the time of the colonel's regime , Vogel presented the Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papadopoulos with the medal of the "Union of the European Economic and Financial Press" in 1969 .

literature

  • Emil Dovifat (Hrsg.): Handbook of journalism. Volume 3 (= practical journalism. Part 2). de Gruyter, Berlin 1969, DNB 456889604 , p. 636.
  • Elisabeth Rothering: The “Handelsblatt” during the license period. Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf 1992, DNB 921362722 , p. 38 ff. (Zugl .: Münster [Westphalia], Univ., Diss., 1991).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the shadow of the press tsars. In: The time . No. 25, June 18, 1971.
  2. ↑ Waldemar Schäfer: Georg von Holtzbrinck: In all silence. In: Handelsblatt . May 11, 2009.
  3. ^ Friedrich Vogel Prizes for Business Journalism. In: journalistenpreise.de, accessed on April 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ The Foundation. In: vogelstiftung.de, accessed on October 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Otto Köhler : Greek trade freedom. In: Der Spiegel . No. 19, 1969, May 5, 1969, accessed September 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1976
Place of death Dusseldorf