Georg Gafron

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Georg Gafron (2016)

Georg Gafron (born May 13, 1954 in Weimar ) is a German journalist .

Life

Gafron fled the GDR in 1977 in a trunk via Marienborn to the Federal Republic.

In 1980 he became an editor at RIAS in Berlin and in 1982 took over the management of the special programs. In 1987 he changed to the Berlin radio station Hundert, 6 . On the basis of information from opponents of the GDR regime such as Roland Jahn, Gafron ensures reporting that is critical of the GDR. From 1999 Gafron was also managing director of the local television broadcaster TV.Berlin . In January 2001 he also became editor-in-chief of the tabloid B.Z. and BZ on Sunday . A short time later he dismissed the deputy editor-in-chief Hansjörn Muder without notice. Muder was responsible for the publication of a report on the insolvency of the former Transport Minister Günther Krause in the newspaper. Krause is considered to be a personal friend of Gafron.

Gafron was considered an important pillar of the CDU in the German capital. During the Berlin election campaign in 2001, Gafron took a position against cooperation between the SPD and PDS with the help of his media by printing posters with historical motifs of the Berlin Wall throughout Berlin. The Berliner Zeitung did not publish the campaign and was then criticized by Gafron in radio spots on one hundred, 6 and in newspaper articles in the Gafron-run media.

In 2002 Georg Gafron gave up the management of the radio station Hundert, 6 and the local television TV.Berlin. As a result of the insolvency of the Kirch Group , the radio station and local TV station TV Berlin, which has since become part of it, had to be sold. In June 2003 Gafron retired from the chief editor of the BZ.

On October 1, 2003, Georg Gafron took over the management of Axel Springer Medien Service GmbH , Berlin. The purpose of the newly founded company was the conception, acquisition and production of special advertising formats and publishing supplements for the titles of the Berlin newspaper group: Die Welt , Welt am Sonntag , Berliner Morgenpost and BZ and BZ am Sonntag . In addition to managing the company, Gafron was the editor-in-chief responsible for the design and manufacture of the products.

Gafron left the Axel Springer Medien Service GmbH on April 30, 2004 because of his sideline work for the media entrepreneur Leo Kirch . Gafron had allegedly withheld an additional income from his official employer: According to the Süddeutscher Zeitung of March 20, 2004, the insolvency administrators of the Kirch Group state in their report to the Munich District Court under special circumstances that Gafron had received 600,000 euros from Leo Kirch for consulting services. Kirch stated that he had himself informed Axel Springer Verlag about Gafron's consulting activities.

In July 2004 he started his own business with GafronMedia GmbH.

Gafron writes columns in the BZ and the Bild newspaper. From September 2017 to February 2020 he was the head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's international office in Thailand.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Gafron: BOOK REVIEW: farewell to self-deception. In: Focus Online . June 13, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ https://www.jugendopposition.de/lexikon/haben/148051/georg-gafron
  3. ↑ USI: "BZ": Broken conditions. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 18, 2001, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ https://www.theeuropean.de/georg-gafron
personal data
SURNAME Gafron, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar