Hans Riehl (journalist)

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Hans Riehl (born June 21, 1935 in Altötting ; † June 6, 2019 in Munich ) was a German historian and journalist .

Life

Hans Riehl was born on June 21, 1935 in Altötting. After the death of his father, the warehouse manager Hans Riehl, who was shot by the SS on April 28, 1945 during the civil murders of Altötting , his mother Karolina Maria Riehl, nee. Spindler, who raise four children (Hans, his two older sisters Marianne and Hildegard and his younger brother Herbert) alone.

After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school in Burghausen in 1953, Hans Riehl did an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk, studied and began his journalistic career in 1960 with the evening newspaper in Munich . In 1961 he married Eva, b. Witthalm-Ruttmann. The three children Konstanze, Jörg and Judith emerged from the marriage.

From 1962 to 1968 Hans Riehl was news editor at Münchner Merkur . In 1968 his brother Herbert Riehl also joined the editorial team of the Münchner Merkurs. In order to avoid confusion, this appended his wife's maiden name ( Herbert Riehl-Heyse ).

When the Munich newspaper publisher launched tz in the summer of 1968 , Hans Riehl was a member of the editorial team from the very beginning. Dirk Ippen , whose publishing house the paper now belongs to, calls the founding a "stroke of luck" - it was only then that "Munich became the city in Germany with the greatest variety of newspapers". The founding editorial team, made up of young journalists, was also a “stroke of luck”, “who thought liberally and left behind some of the conventions of traditional newspaper making”. From March 1973 to the end of 1997 Hans Riehl was a member of the chief editor of tz. In addition, he turned his enthusiasm for music and history into a profession and wrote concert and opera reviews as well as numerous books with historical content.

Long before fake news became popular, Riehl wrote:

“We children of the television age no longer necessarily believe what we read in black and white to be true. The phrase "lie like in print" quickly comes off our lips. Not even every picture is trusted; it could be a photo montage.

For us, therefore, what is only true is what we see in moving images. Film documents can also lie. "

Publications

  • When Germany fell to pieces: Diary of Downfall (1975)
  • The Great Migration (1976)
  • Die Mark: An Exciting History of a World Currency (1978)
  • Fairytale King and Citizen Kings (1979)
  • When the German Princes fell (1979)
  • Heresies at the Turning of Times (with Werner Schneyder) (1997)
  • Requiem for a Currency (1998)

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An advocate of honesty. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Peter Becker: April 28, 1945 in Altötting. The difficult handling of our history. (PDF; 584 kB) Address at the memorial hour on April 28, 2005. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 26, 2018 ; accessed on June 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altoetting.de
  3. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/politik/hertzlichen-glueckwunsch-77377.html
  4. ^ Gloss in Camgaroo, trade magazine for amateur filmmakers . Edition 6/2001, p. 58 .
personal data
SURNAME Riehl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2019
Place of death Munich