Henning Wolff

Henning Wolff (born September 20, 1929 in Birkenwerder , Brandenburg , † December 29, 2006 in Burg auf Fehmarn ) was a German journalist and newspaper publisher .

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Wolff came from the Mark Brandenburg . At the age of sixteen, shortly before the end of the war, the Napola student made it across the Baltic Sea from Rügen to Fehmarn. His father was kidnapped by the Russians, his mother and sister missing. Via the boarding school in Plön he went to a newspaper traineeship in Husum until he became news editor at the Rendsburger Landeszeitung in the mid-1950s and later bought and managed the local newspaper on the island of Fehmarn together with his father Hans Wolff. In addition to working as a publisher and editor-in-chief of the local newspaper Fehmarnsches Tageblatt (1959 to 1989), he worked for the German press agency dpa and the Kieler Nachrichten as well as for Radio Schleswig-Holstein .

The editor-in-chief Henning Wolff retired in 1994, he was followed by Heiko Witt as editor-in-chief of the Fehmarnsche Tageblattes.

Wolff saw himself as a free spirit . His journalistic work was aimed at the German reunification , in which he firmly believed, as well as the reconciliation with Russians and Poles. In recognition of his services as a publicist and publisher, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Henning Wolff was married to the journalist and book author Anke Wolff and had three daughters. After a serious illness, he spent his last years on the island of Fehmarn, where he is buried next to his daughter Inken, who died in 1978.

Awards

• 1994: Golden Badge of Honor of the BdV
• Silver medal of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon ( Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany )

Web links

• Obituary for Henning Wolff in fehmarn24.heiligenhafen from January 2, 2007 - Fehmarn - FT editor-in-chief for many years has died after a serious illness - An obituary by Heiko Witt - Fehmarn mourns Henning Wolff
• Henning Wolff in fehmarn24 - The company chronicle of the Fehmarnsche Tageblatt: 150 years of the local newspaper on Fehmarn
• Biographical data and obituary for Henning Wolff in "Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung - Das Ostpreußenblatt - Independent weekly newspaper for Germany" - No. 5 - February 3, 2007, page 20 (PDF; 3.0 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henning Wolff in archiv.preussische-Allgemeine, page 19 (PDF; 14.0 MB)