Jörg Schmitt

This article deals with the journalist Jörg Schmitt. For other people see Jörg Schmidt .

Jörg Heinrich Schmitt (born August 30, 1967 in Marburg ) is a German journalist .

Life

Schmitt grew up in Biedenkopf in central Hesse and went to school there. After graduating from high school and completing his community service in the Hessian hinterland , he volunteered in 1988 for the Lahn-Dill newspaper group and their local daily newspaper Hinterländer Anzeiger . From November 1989 to June 1994 he studied journalism, economic policy and law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated with the title of Diplom-Journalist (University) .

Then Schmitt worked for a year as an editor at the now discontinued German branch of the US magazine Forbes . From August 1995 to December 2000 he was an editor in the economic department of Stern and from January 2001 to August 2003 he was editor of Manager Magazin . In September 2003 he became editor of the news magazine Der Spiegel . He was mainly concerned with investigating and uncovering irregularities and affairs in business and sport: suspected money laundering against the ex-boss of Reemtsma , bribery at IKEA, investment fraud, money laundering, corruption at Siemens , Kirch bankruptcy, Jürgen Emig and bribery at Hessischer Rundfunk, Reiner Calmund and his farewell at Bayer Leverkusen, broken axles on the ICE , economic spies from China, bribery at handball and more.

Until July 2019, Schmitt was part of the investigative team at Spiegel and, together with Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​was the coordinator for investigative research. As a result of the planned promotion of Rafael Buschmann to head of the investigative team, he left the investigative team and moved to the economic department. In November 2019, he announced that he would move to the Investigative Department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung as Chief Editor on May 1, 2020 . Since July 15, 2020, he has headed the investigative department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung together with Bastian Obermayer .

Awards

• In 2008 Schmitt, together with his colleague Dinah Deckstein and his colleague Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​was honored with the special award of the Friedrich Vogel Foundation for “outstanding research” on their cover story The Siemens Files - Interior View of a Corrupt Group . The article had made an “important contribution to the hygiene of the German economy”, the laudation said. This text was also proposed by the preliminary jury for the 2009 Henri Nannen Prize in the documentation category.
• In 2010, Schmitt, together with his colleagues Jürgen Dahlkamp and Gunther Latsch, was awarded the Henri Nannen Prize for the “best investigative achievement”. It applies to the four-part report Die Middelhoff-Oppenheim-Esch-Connection from 2009, the jury praised for its “ great research that brought new revelations to light over the weeks ”.
• In 2011, Jörg Schmitt, together with his colleagues Jürgen Dahlkamp and Gunther Latsch, was nominated as the author of the text " Fear and Delusion - HSH Prevent Affair " for the Henri Nannen Prize in the "Best Investigative Achievement" category.
• 2012: Business Journalist of the Year 2012, second prize
• Schmitt was nominated again for the Henri Nannen Prize in 2013, together with colleagues for reporting on the nuclear deterrent potential of the Israeli navy
• In 2016, Jörg Schmitt was awarded the Nannen Prize in the “Best Investigation” category as a member of a SPIEGEL team together with Jürgen Dahlkamp , Rafael Buschmann , Gunther Latsch, Udo Ludwig and Jens Weinreich . The work for the article Sommer, Sonne, Schwarzgeld , which appeared in October 2015, is honored. He addressed the presumably bought award of the 2006 soccer World Cup and led u. a. on the resignation of Wolfgang Niersbach as DFB President.

criticism

The Süddeutsche Zeitung called Jörg Schmitt " one of the most experienced researchers in Germany ", but in March 2006 criticized his approach while reporting in "Spiegel" on alleged irregularities in player transfers by Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen and the alleged involvement of the former player Ansgar Brinkmann and ex-manager Reiner Calmund .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Spiegel" sticks to untenable history - and promotes its author uebermedien.de, July 24, 2019
2. ↑ Jörg Schmitt spiegel.de
3. ↑ Jörg Schmitt leaves “Spiegel” and changes to “Süddeutsche” turi2.de, November 21, 2019
4. ^ The Süddeutsche Zeitung is reorganizing its departments berliner-zeitung.de, July 9, 2020
5. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Dinah Deckstein, Jörg Schmitt: The company . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 2008 ( online ).
6. ↑ Vogel Foundation honors business journalists , Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, November 6, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rearview mirror - honors . In: Der Spiegel . No.  
    46 , 2008 ( online ).
7. ^ The winners for the Henri Nannen Prize 2010 have been announced , press release from May 7, 2010 ( Memento from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ SPIEGEL editors awarded Nannen prizes ; Spiegel Online from May 6, 2011
9. ^ The Calmund case - "Prosecution with the help of the media" In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 16, 2006