George Wronkow

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George Wronkow (born February 17, 1905 in Berlin ; died December 15, 1989 in New York City ) was a German-American journalist.

Life

Georg Wronkow was the younger brother of the later press illustrator Ludwig Wronkow (1900–1982). The father Hugo Wronkow (1869–1909) was a real estate agent and died early, the mother Berta Ephraim (1879–1929) had to take care of the sons alone.

Wronkow graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1922 . From 1925 he worked as a journalist at Mosse-Verlag , including the Berliner Volks-Zeitung , and in 1931 became the art editor of the Berliner Tageblatt and wrote for the Weltspiegel .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was dismissed from Mosse in March 1933 and fled via Denmark to France, where he worked as a freelancer for the Pariser Tageblatt until 1936 . In 1936 he married Gertrude Wincenty and now worked as an editor, translator and speaker at Radio Strasbourg. After the German occupation of France in 1940 he was an auxiliary soldier in the French army until the beginning of 1941, before he managed to escape to Spain in April 1941. In June 1941 he arrived in New York, where his brother had emigrated in 1938.

From 1943 to 1947 he worked as an editor and speaker in the German-speaking department of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and after the war he became UN and USA correspondent for German-language newspapers such as Die Tat , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Weser -Kurier , Stuttgarter Nachrichten and broadcasters such as Südwestfunk and Deutsche Welle . Wronkow became a US citizen in 1949.

Wronkow was u. a. Member of the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad , the UN Correspondent Association and the Foreign Press Association (since 1952).

Wronkow received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1980 .

Autobiography

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 836
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 394.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b George Wronkow: My brother Ludwig. In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.); Michael Groth, Barbara Posthoff (arrangement): Ludwig Wronkow, Berlin - New York: journalist and caricaturist at Mosse and "Aufbau"; an illustrated life story . Munich: Saur, 1989 ISBN 3-598-21303-4 , pp. 187-190
personal data
SURNAME Wronkow, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1989
Place of death New York City