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Gunnar Sohn (* 1961 in Berlin ) is a German business journalist .

origin

Son's grandparents Frieda and Wilhelm Sohn moved to Kuschkow / Spreewald in 1932 and bought a guest house and farm there. His father's school days began here in 1935. Since his grandfather was Jewish, the son family was forced to sell the business through boycotts. In 1936 the son family moved to Austria and opened a hotel guesthouse on the Danielsberg in Carinthia - the Herkuleshof. At the beginning of 1939 - shortly after the annexation of Austria - the hotel was taken away from the Sohn family by means of the so-called Aryanization and a Carinthian woman was appointed as the owner. The grandfather was sent to the Dachau concentration camp - later to the “ Jacoby'sche Heil- und Pflegeanstalt ” near Koblenz. He died there under unexplained circumstances shortly before his deportation to Auschwitz on May 23, 1942. His grandfather Wilhelm Alfons Israel's son was named in the death certificate - “without a job, Israelite”. The great-uncle Franz's son was able to move to London and survived. In 1939 the grandmother and his father were expelled from the “Ostmark” to the “Altreich”. They moved to Berlin. His father attended the 6th elementary school in Berlin-Mitte. Since he was a mixed breed 1st degree according to the race law , he was not allowed to attend a higher educational institution. In November 1943 both were bombed out and moved in with their maternal grandparents in Eggersdorf. His father wanted to start a career as a mechanical engineer here, but was not allowed to take up his apprenticeship in Müncheberg at the Paul Sellin company, as the race law forbade taking up a craft profession.

He was then assigned an apprenticeship as an agricultural apprentice with the farmer Kurt Ehlert in Grünberg / Neumark. When the Russians marched there in January 1945, his father was taken to Landsberg as a prisoner, but came back to Berlin in July 1945. He first worked in an electrical works in Köpenick until he suffered a tram accident on September 25, 1945. The result was a stiff leg. After his recovery and a long stay in Sweden , his father became a ticket issuer at the BVG on April 22, 1947 . Here he later succeeded, with great effort, in a career in administration as a dispatcher - until his retirement, which he could only enjoy for barely a year. He died after an accident in August 1990.

Life

Gunnar Sohn studied economics at the Free University of Berlin from 1981 to 1986 . During his studies he was a research assistant in the German Bundestag - with a focus on foreign trade policy. From 1989 to 1990 he was Head of Culture and Media at the Institute for Civic Education of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . From 1990 to 1992 he headed the Bonn office of the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . From 1992 to November 1997 he was press spokesman at Dualen System Deutschland GmbH , until he became head of corporate communications at telecommunications provider o.tel.o on November 1, 1997 . Since 1999 he has been working as a freelance business journalist, business blogger, columnist, live streamer and lecturer at the Fresenius University in Cologne . He represents the main areas: business ethics, CSR, corporate responsibility, method disputes in economics, innovation theory, narrative economics, digital media, theory of public opinion. In 1999 he took over the conservative magazine Criticón from Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing , which he brought along an ordoliberal line as editor . From 1987 to 1989, Sohn was state chairman of the Junge Union in Berlin as well as a member of the CDU and later of the Bund Freie Bürger party , which he left after six months. Since then he has been independent.

Fonts (selection)

  • The eco Pharisees. Environmental protection as a pretext . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 1995, ISBN 3-548-36642-2 .
  • with Alexander Schmidt: The network revolution. Plea against the brick dictatorship . GES-Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-936002-00-3 .
  • with Hannes Schleeh: Live Streaming with Hangout On Air: Techniques, Contents & Perspectives for Creative Web TV. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3446440925
  • When economies are suffocated by routine - Schumpeter's sociological analyzes during his time in Bonn. In: Hans Frambach, Norbert Koubek, Heinz D. Kurz and Reinhard Pfriem: Creative Destruction and the Change in Entrepreneurship - On the Topicality of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Metropolis Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7316-1358-9
  • 2018. Economy gone wrong: How vulgar capitalists semantically and factually dominate the world. Berlin. Netzpiloten 2017.
  • How Merkel smiles away the economics pseudo-calculations: mainstream economists and politics. Berlin. Net pilots. 2016.
  • The measured economy - everything could also be completely different. Berlin. Net pilots.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Gunnar Sohn: Hubris capitalism damages the market economy . In: Schweizer Monatshefte 81 (2002) 11, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Roger Thiede: The son of the baron . In: Focus , September 18, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Son, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin