Hermann-Josef Tenhagen

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Hermann-Josef Tenhagen (2014)

Hermann-Josef Tenhagen (born January 22, 1963 in Wesel ) is a German business journalist . Since October 2014 he has been editor-in-chief of the non-profit consumer advice guide Finanztip . Before that he was editor-in-chief of Finanztest magazine for 15 years .

Life

Tenhagen grew up in Hamminkeln- Havelich on the Lower Rhine . After graduating from high school, which he passed in 1982 at Konrad-Duden-Gymnasium Wesel , Tenhagen did his community service at Haus Aspel monastery near Rees . He gained his first experience in journalism as a freelancer for the Rheinische Post .

From 1984 to 1986 Tenhagen studied political science , economics , literature and education at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn . From 1987 to 1988 he spent a year at a graduate school at the Baptist Baylor University in Waco , Texas , in the USA . Tenhagen received his diploma in political science from the Free University of Berlin .

From 1988 to 1990 he worked a. a. as an intern and freelancer for the AP news agency . In 1990 Hermann-Josef Tenhagen briefly returned to North Rhine-Westphalia ; During this time he worked for local radio stations in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen-Buer . From 1991 to 1994 Tenhagen worked as an environmental editor for taz in Berlin. In 1992 he co-founded the “Economy and Environment” department there. He then took a year off from the taz to organize the activities of non-governmental organizations during the first World Climate Summit in Berlin in 1995 as the spokesman for the “Climate Forum '95” - the joint coordination and information center for German environmental organizations . From 1995 to 1998 Tenhagen worked again at taz ; this time as head of the “Economy and Environment” department and for the last two years also as deputy editor-in-chief. In 1998 Tenhagen moved to Freiburg im Breisgau as head of news for the Badische Zeitung . He stayed there for only one year, until in 1999 he switched to the magazine Finanztest of Stiftung Warentest as editor-in-chief , the largest independent consumer finance magazine in Germany. Since October 2014 he has been editor-in-chief and chairman of the management board at Finanztip , an independent, non-profit consumer adviser that informs its readers about current consumer topics with a weekly newsletter.

Hermann-Josef Tenhagen has been a member of the jury of the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Award since 2012 as the successor to Hubertus Primus . Tenhagen is a member of the supervisory board of the taz cooperative .

Awards

" The jury's reasoning: ... because he knew how hardly any other of the many financial experts knew how to explain the crash of the market with words that were both clever and understandable. His calm and credible analyzes, which made him one of the most sought-after financial experts in autumn 2008, made a significant contribution to avoiding a bank panic. "

  • 2009: Second place as business journalist of the year in the editorial management category of the business journalist magazine
  • 2013: Business Journalist of the Year in the “Consumer and Finance” category from Business Journalist magazine
  • 2015: Business Journalist of the Year in the “Consumer and Finance” category from Business Journalist magazine
  • 2018: Business Journalist of the Year in the “Consumer and Finance” category from Business Journalist magazine

Publications

  • Agrarian Alliance (editor): Agriculture 98 - The critical agricultural report. 1998, ISBN 3-930413-15-9 .
  • Mechthild Blum, Thomas Nesseler (editor): The end of the epoch - the turning point. 1999, ISBN 3-7930-9217-8 .
  • Stiftung Warentest (publisher): Investing safely in a crisis. December 2008, ISBN 978-3-86851-307-3 .
  • Anyone who snaps does PR in: netzwerk recherche workshop. Volume 5 Critical Business Journalism. Wiesbaden May 2007.
  • Gabriele Reckinger, Volker Wolff (editor): Financial journalism. Constance, April 2011, ISBN 978-3-86764-253-8 .
  • Ines Pohl (editor): 50 simple things you can do to change society. Frankfurt / Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-938060-34-6 .
  • Scientific advisory board at the Federation of Insured (publisher): Private old-age provision / occupational disability insurance / reports from practice / quota system / supervisory system. Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7591-3 .
  • Karlheinz Sonntag (Editor): From Lisbon to Fukushima - Consequences of Disasters. Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6177-8 .
  • Scientific advisory board at the Federation of Insured (publisher): status transparency for insurance brokers / illegal insurance conditions / retroactive contract adjustment. Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0757-7 .
  • Hermann-Josef Tenhagen: The financial tip book: How you can save a lot of money with little effort. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-430-20231-2 .
  • Hermann-Josef Tenhagen: Online journalists can recognize people's questions better and therefore answer them better. Why an online consumer portal has an advantage. In: Claudia Mast , Klaus Spachmann and Katherina Georg (eds.): Kompass der Wirtschaftskommunikation. Topic interests of citizens - evaluations of the journalistic achievements of politics, companies and journalism. Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7445-1120-9 , pp. 231-235.

Web links

Commons : Hermann-Josef Tenhagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Interview with "Finanztip" editor-in-chief Hermann-Josef Tenhagen. Fachjournalist.de, December 20, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PM finanztest , press release Finanztip
  2. ↑ We make you an expert in your finances. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jury , www.helmutschmidtjournalistenpreis.de (online)
  4. ↑ Supervisory board of the taz cooperative
  5. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2008, medium magazin, January / February 2009 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Tenhagen, Hermann-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel