Heinrich Jaenecke

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Heinrich Jaenecke (born February 25, 1928 in Berlin ; † October 4, 2014 in Ahrensburg ) was a German journalist , publicist and historian .

Life

Heinrich Jaenecke was the son of Wilhelm Jaenecke, a district administrator in Zeitz and Uslar , and his wife Amalie, the daughter of the first Reich President Friedrich Ebert . As a result, Jaenecke never met his grandfather, who died in 1925. He attended the schools in his hometown Berlin and was called upon to serve as a flak helper in 1944 . On April 15, 1945, a few days before the end of the Second World War , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1947 Jaenecke emigrated to Argentina . There he began studying architecture , worked as a construction worker and took the first steps in his journalistic career by writing for the “Argentinische Tageblatt”, a German-language and anti - fascist daily newspaper.

Jaenecke returned to Germany in 1954 and finally decided to become a journalist. After working as a freelancer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he became an editor for the Passauer Neue Presse and Weser-Kurier in Bremen as well as for the magazines “Revue” and Quick in Munich . In 1966 he finally moved to Stern , for which he worked as an editor, reporter and columnist until 1995.

From 1995 Jaenecke wrote as a freelance author for various publications, including for the history magazine GEO Epoche . He has also authored numerous books, including “The German Division”, “The White Lords” on the history of South Africa , “Long live death” about the Spanish civil war and “Dreamers, Heroes, Victims”, which deals with the history of Poland .

Works (selection)

  • The division of Germany: From the Potsdam Conference to the Basic Treaty. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-548-33051-7 .
  • The white gentlemen: 300 years of war and violence in South Africa. Goldmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-11230-3 .
  • Poland: dreamers, heroes, victims , Hamburg: Gruner and year 1981, ISBN 978-3-570-00825-6 (series: Stern-Buch)
  • Long Live Death: The Tragedy of the Spanish Civil War. Goldmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-11525-6 .
  • The blind eagle: reflections on Germany. Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0228-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 11, 2014, SZ-Gedenken.de, accessed on November 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Jaenecke, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publicist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2014
Place of death Ahrensburg