Gerold Lingnau

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Gerold Lingnau (born September 6, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 15, 2017 in Bad Soden ) was a German journalist and from 1972 to 1999 the editor responsible for the supplement Technik und Motor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Origin and education

Lingnau's parents came from West and East Prussia and had settled in Frankfurt am Main, where Lingnau attended elementary school. In 1943 the family moved to Kronberg im Taunus . Lingnau received his Abitur in 1951 at the secondary school there. His first journalistic attempts as the author of editorials for a school newspaper reach this period. Since 1952, he graduated in economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, which he in 1957 as a graduate economist graduated and was just there in 1960 when Otto Veit with a thesis on the continuation of the marginal utility concept in the theory of money to Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

Act

At the beginning of 1961 Lingnau joined the business editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where the stock exchange was his first field of activity for six months. He later moved to the company's editorial office and edited the private-sector section of the newspaper every day for seven years. During this time, however, Lingnau also devoted himself to questions relating to transport and the automotive industry, a passion that went back to his enthusiasm for technology when he was a student. After Hugo V. Seib's death, in March 1973 he took over as the responsible editor for the engine department, which was placed on a broader basis in 1988 under the title Technology and Engine . As an author or co-author, Lingnau wrote around a dozen books, most of them about cars or motorcycles. Lingnau was married, had two sons and lived in Eppstein , where he also volunteered.

Awards and honors

literature

  • You edit and write the Frankfurter Allgemeine , edited by Ingeborg Lukas, Frankfurt October 1988, pp. 71f.
  • You edit and write the Frankfurter Allgemeine , edited by Ingeborg Lukas, Frankfurt June 1993, p. 75.

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