Herbert Kremp

Herbert Kremp with Richard von Weizsäcker at the CDU federal party conference in 1973

Herbert Kremp (born August 12, 1928 in Munich ; † March 21, 2020 in Kleve-Schenkenschanz ) was a German journalist and publicist . Among other things, he was editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Post and the world .

Life

Kremp actually wanted to become a pianist and took lessons from Friedrich Gulda , but was changed by Franz Schnabel and Arnold J. Toynbee and studied constitutional law, philosophy and history at the University of Munich . From 1948 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations . In 1954 he was with the work of Spengler Overcoming cultural cycles theory by the World Age doctrine of the Heidelberg School and the Toynbee'sche doctrine of filiation of cultures over Oswald Spengler , Max Weber and Arnold Toynbee at the Faculty of Munich University doctorate . At the same time he studied economics in Frankfurt am Main . He completed his traineeship at the Frankfurter Neue Presse and in 1957 switched to his first editorial position at the Rheinische Post . In 1959 Kremp became editor of the Berlin daily newspaper Der Tag , in 1961 a correspondent for the Rheinische Post in the federal capital Bonn . In 1969 he became editor-in-chief of this newspaper.

From 1969 to 1985 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Welt three times , and from 1985, succeeding Matthias Walden, also its publisher. He traveled the world again and again to comment on historical events, for example from 1977 to 1981 as chief correspondent for Die Welt in Deng Xiaoping's reform period in Beijing and in 1987 in Brussels as rapporteur for the EC and NATO .

Kremp had a friendship with the media entrepreneur Axel Springer .

Herbert Kremp died in March 2020 at the age of 91.

Quotes

• "Herbert Kremp is a writer who loves to cut in stone, not to knead clay." - Claus Jacobi about Herbert Kremp
• “It is his fighting heart that really counts.” - Claus Jacobi on Herbert Kremp
• “I have always met a person who writes in him, who initially always pursues the essence of a matter before he draws his conclusions from such deepening and from the analysis of the situation. Knowledge is everything. The Enlightenment always speaks in Herbert Kremp - also in that ancient sense, who seeks to recognize himself, as an individual and as a member of this oh-so-difficult fatherland Germany. "- Thomas Kielinger in a speech on the 65th birthday of Herbert Kremp
• "Few journalists like you have influenced the public discussion in our country" - Federal President Karl Carstens on Herbert Kremp at the presentation of the Konrad Adenauer Prize in June 1984

Fonts

• Tales from the Mouse Castle: Tales from the Lower Rhine . Boss Druck und Medien, Goch 2008, ISBN 3-933-96986-7 , together with Fritz Poorten.
• Memoirs of the future - Germany 2050 - a review . BoD, 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0228-8 .
• Responsibility and clarity in times of pressure . Creator-Verlag , Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-89247-034-0 , together with Florian H. Fleck (ed.).
• We need our history - thinking about Germany . Ullstein, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-550-07984-2 (essay volume).
• Continent Magazin XIV. Forum for East-West Questions . Ullstein, Berlin 1983. ISBN 3-548-38010-7 , together with Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow and Lev Navrozov.
• The bamboo bridge: my Asian diary. Ullstein Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-550-07926-5 .
• On the banks of the Rubicon - a political anthropology . Buses and Seewald , Herford 1982, ISBN 3-512-00313-3 .

Awards

• 1978 Theodor Wolff Prize for the report A rainy day in Beijing
• 1984 Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation for Journalism
• 1988 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Commander's Cross of the Order of the Finnish Lion
• 2003 Theodor Wolff Prize for his life's work as a journalist

literature

• Gerd Frahne: Reports on China's reform period - the Beijing reports by WELT correspondent Herbert Kremp 1977–1981 . Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-737-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Kremp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herbert Kremp. In: morgenpost.de. 
• Gernot Facius : Theodor Wolff Prize: Dr. Herbert Kremp. In: bdzv.de. 2003, archived from the original on February 5, 2012 . 
• Herbert Kremp: China and the West: Sketches of the New World Order. In: konservativ.de. Archived from the original on October 1, 1999 . 
• Thomas Kielinger: On the hunt for the right word. In: welt.de . August 12, 2003 . 
• Herbert Kremp in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell to Herbert Kremp. In: rp-online.de. March 24, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Kielinger : Herbert Kremp died: A person, in all his contradictions. In: welt.de . March 22, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020 .