Heinz Kerneck

Heinz Kerneck (born March 3, 1912 in Jena , † April 19, 1968 in Badenweiler ) was a journalist and broadcast director of Radio Bremen .

biography

Kerneck was the son of a glass blower. After graduating from high school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1931 and worked as a cooperative merchant until 1933. He also worked as a journalist. After 1933 he worked for the Reichsbahn and the Central European Travel Agency . During the Second World War he was a soldier, most recently a company commander in an infantry division.

After his return from British captivity, he took up a job as a journalist in 1946, first as editor of the Social Democratic Press Service in Hanover, then as Parliamentary Reporter for the German Press Service at the Economic Council in Frankfurt am Main and at the German Press Agency (dpa) in Bonn for a Reporting by the Bundestag and Bundesrat . In 1953 he became senior radio editor and head of the newsroom at Deutsche Welle in Cologne .

On July 8, 1957, he was elected Broadcasting Director of Radio Bremen. He developed the extension of the station to a television station. From January 1965, Radio Bremen started the third television program together with Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Sender Free Berlin (SFB). He strongly opposed the cancellation of the smaller broadcasters. As director of Deutsche Welle, he was in conversation in the 1960s. In 1968 he was offered the post of artistic director of the broadcaster Free Berlin; however, he refused to fight for the preservation of Radio Bremen. In 1968 he died during a cure in Badenweiler. Hans Abich was his successor .

The Heinz-Kerneck Street in Bremen- Osterholz was named after him.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .