Hans Eggert (journalist)

Hans Eggert (right) with Mayor Hanke at a panel discussion in Pirna

Hans Eggert (born January 6, 1946 in Zschachwitz , now a district of Dresden ) is a German journalist .

biography

After an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Eggert completed a pedagogy course in German and history , and later media studies . From 1979 to 1983 he was editor-in-chief of the Junge Generation and the student newspaper Forum and then from 1983 to 1986 deputy editor-in-chief of Junge Welt . From 1986 Eggert worked for the Berliner Zeitung . In the course of the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung on November 23, 1989 as successor to Dieter Kerschek , which he remained until 1996. From 2002 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the Sächsische Zeitung , for which he worked until 2011.

Hans Eggert lives in Berlin and has two daughters.

Works

• Hans Eggert and Rainer Kubatzki : Friedrich August III. Pictures of life, letters, wills. A reader. A king in good Saxon. Redaktions- und Verlags-Gesellschaft Elbland, Meißen 2008 ( Edition Sächsische Zeitung ).
• Hans Eggert: The Wettins - without a throne and a crown. Redaktions- und Verlags-Gesellschaft Elbland, Meißen 2009 ( Edition Sächsische Zeitung ).

literature

• Short biography for:  Eggert, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .