Helmut Lindemann

Helmut Lindemann (born December 10, 1912 in Kiel , † September 22, 1998 in Lindau ) was a German lawyer , publicist , translator and writer .

Life

Lindemann was the son of Paul Lindemann ( lawyer , 1912-1919 Lord Mayor of Kiel) and Margarete Lindemann, b. Abshagen. He attended the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Hamburg . After graduating from high school, Lindemann studied law at the Universities of Kiel , Hamburg , Exeter and Berlin . In 1936 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin. jur. From 1938 to 1945 Lindemann was a foreign correspondent in London , Amsterdam , Athens and Stockholm . From 1945 to 1948 he was a founding member of the Protestant Research Academy . Lindemann was a co-founder of the Christophorus-Stift / study group of the EKD . From 1948 he worked as a publicist, translator and writer.

From September 1961 to summer 1962 he was briefly headmaster of the humanistic Black Forest boarding school Birklehof on the initiative of Georg Picht . The attempt failed due to resistance from teachers, students and parents.

Since the 1950s, Lindemann has been present in national magazines and newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and ZEIT as well as in the local media. He commented on educational and political issues. He commented on the Bavarian Broadcasting , North German Broadcasting and West German Broadcasting . He also worked as a translator, from English and French .

In 2001, Lindemann's family gave his estate to the Institute for Newspaper Research in Dortmund .

Lindemann was of Protestant faith. He had been with Cornelie Lindemann, born in 1940. Volkmann († 1992) married and had six children with her: Thomas, Barbarah, Hartwig, Constanze, Dorothee and Florian Lindemann .

Awards

• 1963 : German Journalist Award
• 1957 Joseph E. Drexel Prize

Works

• Gustav Heinemann . A life for democracy . Kösel, Munich 1978 , ISBN 3-466-41012-6 .
• The thing about the nation . Kindler, Munich 1970
• The antiquated constitution . Plea for a contemporary constitution . Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1966 .
• Konrad Adenauer . Scherz, Munich 1965
• Generals make politics. A study . Auer, Bonn 1952 .
• Editor of the magazine Neues Hochland from 1972 to 1974.

Translations

• Adam Bruno Ulam : The Bolsheviks. Prehistory and course of the communist revolution in Russia . (The Bolsheviks. The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia). Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. "The Birklehof in World War II and after 1945" Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
2. ↑ "Institute for Newspaper Research receives the estate of the publicist Dr. Helmut Lindemann ” , Ruhr Information Service dated November 29, 2001

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Lindemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Helmut Lindemann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Helmut Lindemann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)