Hans-Jürgen Mahlitz

Hans-Jürgen Mahlitz-Stecher (* 1942 in Würzburg ) is a German journalist and political publicist . For many years he was editor-in-chief of Deutschland-Magazin and the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung .

Career

Mahlitz grew up in Düsseldorf and after graduating from high school with a Latinum , Graecum and Hebraicum, studied Protestant theology , political science and physics (guest auditor) at the Free University of Berlin , the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

During his studies he worked in the correspondent office of the Evangelical Press Service (epd). After a traineeship at the Bonner Generalanzeiger (1968) he worked for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger for almost 14 years , first as a news editor, then in the features section , responsible for science, technology and the environment, and finally in the editorial office in Bonn. In 1982 he switched to the monthly Germany magazine published by the national conservative Germany Foundation , of which he became editor-in-chief in 1984.

Mahlitz is a founding member of the Voice of the Majority Initiative, which emerged in November 1996 , according to its self-image an “amalgamation of free-thinking writers, journalists, publishers and scientists who agree on conservative and liberal ideas”, and whose goal is to “defeat the left-wing cartel within large parts of the To counter the 'writing guild' with a powerful alternative ”. At the time, this initiative included over 100 personalities, some of them well-known. Mahlitz temporarily operated their website; from 2006 to 2009 he was its chairman / spokesman, but then resigned for personal and political reasons.

In November 2000 he became editor-in-chief of the Ostpreußenblatt published in Hamburg . The expansion of the title of this weekly newspaper in 2003 in the Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung / Das Ostpreußenblatt is largely due to him. Mahlitz remained editor-in-chief of the newspaper until August 2005, which he then temporarily headed for another year and in which he published regularly until summer 2015. Then he stopped working to distance himself from AfD and Pegida . He still works as editor-in-chief and author for the liberal-conservative internet magazine "DeutschlandDirekt" published by his wife Heidi Stecher.

Mahlitz was a political companion and friend of the television journalist and head of the ZDF magazine , Gerhard Löwenthal, who died in 2002 . The list of his numerous interviewees ranges from Franz Josef Strauss , Edmund Stoiber and Horst Seehofer to Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel to Paul Bocuse . He lives in Stephanskirchen near Rosenheim.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} New editor-in-chief . In: Ostpreußenblatt , volume 47, November 25, 2000, p. 2.