Hans-Henning Zencke

Hans-Henning Zencke (born July 4, 1925 in Berlin ; † February 24, 1988 in Bonn ) was a German business journalist .

Life

Zencke was the son of a lawyer. After graduating from high school , he did military service and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . After World War II , he studied German literature and journalism at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and attended from 1946 to 1947, the journalistic education courses at Otto Groth in Munich, a previous version of the later German School of Journalism .

He completed a traineeship in the editorial office of Wilhelm Karl Gerst and in 1949 became an editor for the German Press Service (dpd) and the German Press Agency (dpa) in Frankfurt am Main. From 1953 to 1957 he worked for dpa in Bonn. Since then he has worked as a freelance journalist and business correspondent. He worked for regional newspapers a. a. the Berliner Morgenpost , the Rheinische Post , the Hamburger Abendblatt , the Kölnische Rundschau , the Mannheimer Morgen , the Offenbach-Post and the Münchner Merkur and was a member of the Federal Press Conference . He also published under the pseudonym Ernst Georg .

He was considered a supporter of Ludwig Erhard's economic policy and was a mentor of the Neuhauser Kreis.

Zencke was married and had three children. His eldest son is the mathematician Peter Zencke .

Awards

• 1977: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1978: Ludwig Erhard Prize for business journalism
• 1983: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts (selection)

• Plea for clemency for Bonn. Notes on a troublesome policy . Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf u. a. 1984, ISBN 3-430-19934-4 .
• Luise Erhard. No housemaid . (Pp. 67–71) in: Werner Höfer (ed.): Lucky with presidents, chancellors and women. A gallery in Bonn . Belser Verlag, Stuttgart / Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-7630-1174-9 .

literature

• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1987, ISBN 3-7950-2007-7 , p. 1504.
• Günter Buch : The holdings of the archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Brief overview. Edited by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , 3rd modified and updated edition, Knoth, Melle 1992, ISBN 3-88368-231-4 , p. 194.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Henning Zencke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hans-Henning Zencke  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1987, ISBN 3-7950-2007-7 , p. 1504.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alois Rummel : The Grand Coalition, 1966–1969. A critical inventory . Eurobuch-Verlag Lutzeyer, Freudenstadt 1969, p. 264.
3. ↑ Otto Groth: The young talent problem . In: Dietrich Oppenberg (ed.): Handbuch Deutsche Presse 1947. Reprint of the newspaper section . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-430-17288-8 , pp. 96-101.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Henning Zencke . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1988, pp. 220 ( online ).
5. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice. The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard (= supplements to the quarterly journal for social and economic history . No. 162). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-07940-8 , p. 270.
6. ↑ Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism , website of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation, accessed on August 6, 2014.