Hugo Müller-Vogg

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Hugo Müller-Vogg (born June 2, 1947 in Mannheim ) is a German journalist , author and publicist .

Life

Hugo Müller-Vogg attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim . After graduating from high school in 1966, he served as a reserve officer candidate for two years as a temporary soldier in the Bundeswehr and was dismissed as a lieutenant in the reserve . From 1969 to 1974 he studied economics and political science at the University of Mannheim and the University of Vienna . He completed his studies with a degree in economics . In 1978 he was awarded the dissertation “Public Relations for the Social Market Economy. The public relations work of the Federal Association of Dt. Employers' associations, the Federal Association of Dt. Industry and the Institute of Dt. Economy "to the Dr. rer. pole. PhD . From 1974 to 1976 he was press officer at the University of Mannheim.

During his studies he was a trainee at Mannheimer Morgen , where he worked as a business editor from 1976. In 1977 he moved to the business department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). From 1980 to 1984 he was FAZ correspondent in Düsseldorf and from 1984 to 1988 in New York City . Afterwards he was responsible for the regional part Rhein-Main-Zeitung as well as for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS). From 1988 until his resignation by the FAZ in 2001, Hugo Müller-Vogg was also co-editor of the newspaper. It was the first resignation of a FAZ publisher in over 30 years. The reason for the termination was not disclosed. There was speculation about him, ranging from differences, above all with the co-editor Frank Schirrmacher, to the development of the newspaper's online presence, to the handling of reports on Joschka Fischer's 1968 biography .

From 1997 to 2001, Müller-Vogg hosted the television talk show 3, Zwei, Eins on Hessischer Rundfunk together with Luc Jochimsen and Manfred Bissinger .

Müller-Vogg has been a freelance journalist since October 2001. Until 2015 he wrote for Axel Springer Verlag , a. a. four weekly columns for the Bild newspaper (“Berlin intern”), a mace column with Gregor Gysi ( Die Linke ) for the SUPERillu and is a frequent guest on political talk shows. From 2015 to 2019 he wrote the column "Hugo Müller Vogg: Against the Current" for the online portal Tichys Insight . Since then, Müller-Vogg has been writing for Cicero and Focus, among others .

He has published numerous books on political and economic topics. In 2004 he published two volumes of conversations: “Mein Weg” with CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel and “I want to be open - and if necessary uncomfortable” with Federal President Horst Köhler . Both books were later published in an updated edition. In 2007 a volume of conversations with Hartmut Mehdorn , the head of Deutsche Bahn AG at the time, was published . At the beginning of March 2009 he published “People's Republic of Germany. 'Script' for the Red-Red-Green Turn ”is a fictional preview of the 2009 Bundestag election and its consequences. He is a member of the jury of the Vordenker Finanzforum , which awards the Vordenker Prize.

Müller-Vogg is Roman Catholic . He is married and has a daughter. Müller-Vogg works in Berlin and lives privately in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Hugo Müller-Vogg: Germany your strengths: Nation between good and bad , Kölner Universitätsverlag 1994, ISBN 3-87427-052-1
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg: Our anti-social market economy: from good model to sad practice , Cologne University Press 1998, ISBN 3-87427-074-2
  • Angela Merkel: My way . Hoffmann and Campe, 2005, ISBN 3-455-09538-0 .
  • Horst Köhler - “I want to be open - and uncomfortable if necessary” . Hoffmann and Campe, 2005, ISBN 3-455-09536-4 .
  • with Manfred Bissinger : Schröder or Merkel . Hoffmann and Campe, 2005, ISBN 3-455-09537-2 .
  • Christian Wulff - Better the truth . 2007.
  • Hartmut Mehdorn : I never wanted to become a diplomat . 2007.
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg: People's Republic of Germany. 'Script' for the Rot-Rot-Grüne Wende , Olzog Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-7892-8304-8
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg: Less and less talk, more and more shows - personal experiences in and with political talk shows . In: Sascha Michel / Heiko Girnth (Hrsg.): Polit-Talkshows - Bühnen der Macht. A look behind the scenes. Bonn: Bouvier. 2009. pp. 122-127.
  • Reinfried Pohl : I've made financial history . 2010.
  • The Douglas story . Jörn Kreke on trading with heart and mind. 2010.
  • Guido Sandler : Oetker recipes. Guido Sandler's memories of his managerial years . An interview with Hugo Müller-Vogg. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50289-3
  • Uwe-Karsten Heye, Hugo Müller-Vogg: Steinbrück or Merkel? - Germany has a choice. QUADRIGA 2013, ISBN 978-3-86995-056-3
  • Rainer Brüderle: Now I'm talking! - A conversation with Hugo Müller-Vogg. OLZOG edition im lau Verlag, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-95768-113-3
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg: Every people has the government it deserves! - Why the grand coalition does not have great goals. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-375-4
  • Reinfried Pohl: The doctor, the fighter, the winner - A biography by Hugo Müller-Vogg. HOFFMANN UND CAMPE VERLAG, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50319-7
  • Wolfgang Bosbach: “Final spurt - How politics really is - and how it should be”. An interview with Hugo Müller-Vogg. Quadriga Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86995-092-1

Web links

Commons : Hugo Müller-Vogg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b dpa: "Trust destroyed" - FAZ publisher Müller-Vogg released from office , handelsblatt.de, February 22, 2001.
  2. ↑ http://www.hugo-mueller-vogg.de/index.php?article_id=5&version=
  3. ^ Authors' asylum for Müller-Vogg , manager-magazin.de, August 17, 2001.
  4. ^ Hugo Müller-Vogg: Against the current column at Tichys insight
  5. ^ Hugo Müller Vogg biography. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131125031512/http://www.finanzforum-vorhaben.de:80/jury.html
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Vogg, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, book author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim