Ingo Herzog

Ingo Herzog (born January 9, 1913 in Mannheim ; † January 9, 1980 in Kirchheim unter Teck ) was a German journalist . From 1956 to 1978 he was editor-in-chief of the Nürtinger Zeitung .

Life

Herzog was the son of an editor . After the death of her husband, his mother moved as a war widow with her three children to Heilbronn , where Herzog graduated from high school in 1931 . In Heidelberg he then studied history , sociology and newspaper studies . In 1934 he completed a traineeship at the Nazi daily Heilbronner Tagblatt and then headed its edition for Neckarsulm , the Neue Unterländer Volkszeitung , for four years (approx. 1935 to 1939) . He also worked as a journalist in Freudenstadt and in 1949 for the short-lived Heilbronner Abendpost . From 1951 to 1956 he worked as a local editor at Heilbronner Voice and then moved to the Nürtinger Zeitung as editor-in-chief, where he remained in office until his retirement in 1978. As a pensioner, he moved to Heilbronn- Kirchhausen and took up a job as a freelancer for Heilbronn Voice. On the evening of his 67th birthday, he died of heart failure at the wheel of his car in Kirchheim unter Teck .

Herzog concentrated above all on local journalism, in which he mastered all forms, from communal reporting to the feature pages and dialect articles. As a “practical lyricist”, as he called himself, he was in front of the Heilbronn Artists' Association from October 7, 1954 to November 7, 1955 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 224, 306 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35).

literature

• Dagobert Wissmann: thoroughbred journalist and “practical lyricist”. On the death of Ingo Herzog. In: Heilbronner Voice , January 11, 1980

Web links

• Entry on Ingo Herzog in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, call number ZS-13509