Helmut Lölhöffel

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Hans Bruno Helmut Lölhöffel (born January 29, 1944 in Königsberg as Helmut Lölhöffel von Löwensprung ; † April 15, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Life

Lölhöffel was born to Erich and Hedwig Lölhöffel von Löwensprung , daughter of Erminia von Olfers-Batocki . From his father's first marriage to Edith Lölhöffel von Löwensprung there were four siblings, of whom the older brother Götz von Lölhöffel had died in Russia in 1943. Hedwig von Lölhöffel was the last owner of the Tharau estate in East Prussia .

Lölhöffel started working as a freelancer for the Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger in Bonn in 1969 ; from 1974 to 1984 he was a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Bonn and East Berlin . From 1984 to 2000 he worked for the Frankfurter Rundschau in Bonn and Berlin . In 2001 he became vice-senate spokesman for the Black-Red Senate under Eberhard Diepgen in Berlin. After his replacement by Klaus Wowereit , Lölhöffel became Senate Spokesman for the Red-Green Senate in Berlin . When the SPD switched to a red-red coalition , Lölhöffel became the judicial press spokesman and head of the office of mayor Karin Schubert for four months in 2002 . He then became press spokesman for Vivendi Germany and was head of corporate communications at Veolia Wasser in Berlin until 2007 . From 2008 to 2010 he was media spokesman for the European Association for Renewable Energies EUROSOLAR e. V. , since 2009 he has been a communications consultant for the German Disabled Sports Association. V. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin and has coordinated the Stolpersteine project in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf since 2010 . He wrote book reviews in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and on vorwaerts.de, among others . He was a member of the dju tariff commission and was active in the printing and paper trade union.

In 1999 he received the media prize of the German Bundestag for his work as parliamentary correspondent for the Frankfurter Rundschau . Until 1991 Lölhöffel was long-time chairman of the Bonn IG Medien . Since 1996 he has been the editor of the information service against right-wing extremism look right . In the 1960s he was a member of the federal management of the "Bund Deutsch-Unitarischer Jugend" (BDUJ), an organization affiliated with the German Unitarian Religious Community, whose publication companion he was responsible for.

Lölhöffel was a member of the SPD . In the meantime he had resigned from the party and described himself as a "non-party social democrat".

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  1. Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 31. 1963, Volume 147, Page 248, accessed on April 17, 2018 (limited preview) .
  2. Pitt von Bebenburg: Obituary for Helmut Lölhöffel. An upright one. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 16, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 . Heribert Prantl : Obituary. Integrity to the point of stubbornness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 16, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science : Edith Lölhöffel von Löwensprung , database of international networks of female academics
  4. Hedwig von Lölhöffel: Our Tharau . 1959, p. 128
  5. Detlef Hensche in the obituary magazine M - Menschenmachen Medien , issue 2/2018 p. 30
  6. Senate appoints Senate spokesman: Lölhöffel starts in January. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 12, 2000, accessed on April 17, 2018.