Fritz Bauchwitz

Fritz Adolf Bauchwitz (* 21st June 1924 in Vienna , † 13. April 2009 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was an Austrian-American radio journalist and presenter at Radio Bremen .

Life

Bauchwitz was the son of a Jewish businessman and grew up in Berlin and Cologne , where he attended the Jewish secondary school "Jawne". In 1939 he emigrated to England with his entire school class . The students, like four other “Jawne” classes, were accompanied by the headmaster and teacher Erich Klibansky , who organized the escape to England and who was later deported and murdered by the National Socialists with his family . A year later, Bauchwitz came to live with relatives in the United States , where he received US citizenship. With the US Army he returned to Europe as a soldier shortly after the end of the Second World War and was deployed as a substitute in the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria and Italy .

From 1947 to 1951, Bauchwitz lived again in the United States, where he completed an engineering degree at Purdue University in the US state of Indiana . During the Korean War he was drafted again and because of his language skills he was ordered to Germany, where he was stationed in Berlin from 1951 to 1956. Then he went back to the USA and worked as a civil servant in the US Air Force . His civilian air force activities brought him first to Cologne in 1960 and to Bremerhaven in 1964 . When the Bremerhaven station closed in 1968, he left the US Air Force and decided to stay in Germany. Bauchwitz had meanwhile married a woman from Bremen and the couple had three children who were still going to school.

Since 1968 he lived with his family in Bremen. There he first found work as a stadium announcer and then became journalistic for radio, mainly working for Radio Bremen. He became known to a wide audience, including as a moderator of the Bremen Harbor Concert , the Nordschau and various morning magazines. He became known nationwide in particular for moderating the ARD night express . In addition, he worked as a spokesman for horse tournaments after he had previously ridden tournaments himself. Most recently, he moderated the program In the best age on Nordwestradio , which was aimed at older people. His nickname was the "'Old Fritz' from Radio Bremen".

In his journalistic work, Bauchwitz mainly dealt with the fate of emigrants. He described his own life in the book Experiencing, Experiencing, Conceiving… and Telling it , which was published in 1993 by Hauschild Verlag in Bremen . He reported on his formative experiences in numerous events.

Bauchwitz was involved in the social field; Among other things, he was press spokesman for the senior citizens' representative in Bremen for many years . He was particularly committed to cross-generational volunteer projects, such as a. Reading ambassadors , traffic and safety aides and PC training from younger people for older people. The helpers he helped initiate at the ticket machines in Bremen's main train station had only started working shortly before his death.

Fritz Bauchwitz died at the age of 84 while visiting relatives in Argentina.

Works

• "Experienced, experienced, thought up ... and told." The fate of a German-Jewish emigrant . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-926598-99-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Fritz Bauchwitz died surprisingly , press release from the Senate Press Office of the State of Bremen on April 15, 2009; Retrieved April 16, 2009.
2. ↑ ^{a b} See information on Fritz Bauchwitz at the State Center for Political Education Bremen (see web link).
3. ↑ Recognized by voice . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 24, 1985.
4. ↑ For example, Fritz Bauchwitz u. a. at a memorial event for 1164 deported Jewish people from Cologne and the Rhineland in Cologne on July 22, 2002 as a speaker.