Hans Jacobus

Hans Jacobus (2nd from left) 1979 at a forum with young people in Berlin

Hans Jacobus (born August 6, 1923 in Berlin ; † March 13, 2003 there ) was a GDR journalist who became popular primarily through the radio and television series Professoren-Kollegium . From 1976 to 1985 he was editor-in-chief of the cultural-political weekly newspaper Sonntag .

Life stations

Hans Jacobus attended the Jewish school on Große Hamburger Straße in Berlin and then began an apprenticeship as a druggist, which he had to break off after the pogrom night in 1938 . Because of his Jewish descent, he emigrated to London with a group of children in 1938 (see Kindertransport ). After the outbreak of World War II, he was interned in Australia as an " enemy alien " . He later returned to London and was involved in the Free German Youth . He lived there with interruptions until 1947, most recently as a teacher for children who were released from the concentration camp.

In 1947 he returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He was initially editor of the daily newspaper Junge Welt , later from 1949 to 1953 editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . In a hysteria at that time against Western emigrants , he was deposed, taken into custody for seven months and then sent to production on probation .

From 1955 to 1976 he was editor-in-chief and political commentator at Berliner Rundfunk , and from 1976 to 1985 editor-in-chief of the cultural-political weekly newspaper Sonntag . He was retired in 1987. In 1990 he turned to the PDS . In his later years he wrote a number of books of memories.

The series Das Professoren-Kollegium Tag has been broadcast for almost 27 years on Thursday evening from 8:00 p.m. live on the radio of the Berliner Rundfunk and on Saturday afternoon as a recording simultaneously on German television (later television of the GDR ) with Jacobus as the presenter.

In 1983 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

Publications

• The certificate. Experienced and remembered , 1988, ISBN 3-354-00503-3
• Dreams to ashes? , 1993, ISBN 3-928999-20-6
• Behind my eyelids. Drawings and biographical texts , 1995, illustrations by Willi Sitte , ISBN 3-929161-30-3
• Son, mother, dust. A fictional dialogue , 1997, ISBN 3-932180-18-6
• Sketches of the tides. Experiences and dreams , 1998, ISBN 3-932725-50-6
• Sensitivities. Interviews , 1998, ISBN 3-932434-01-3
• The traces of the family ... , 2001, Verlag Nora, ISBN 3-935445-24-5
• Upon entering the house , 2002, ISBN 3-936735-03-4

literature

• Carsten Wurm:  Jacobus, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 325

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Jacobus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Hans Jacobus in the journal Ossietzky (6/2002)
• Article Memories of my grandfather by Hans Jacobus in the weekly newspaper Friday November 15, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 28, 1983, p. 2