Juerg Vollmer

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Jürg Vollmer (2008)

Jürg Vollmer (born January 30, 1962 in Chur ) is a Swiss journalist .

Life

Vollmer trained as a journalist in 1984 at the Media Training Center (MAZ) and then at Swiss television . From 1982 to 1990 he was an editor at the Swiss Political Correspondence (SPK) in Bern and St. Gallen, among others . From 1990 to 1996 he worked as an editor and correspondent for Swiss television in Zurich and for Deutsche Welle TV in Cologne. In 1996 he was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Nebelspalter .

From 1998 to 2001, Jürg Vollmer completed an institute course on fundraisers VMI / Swissfundraising at the University of Freiburg . At the same time, he was the Swiss managing director of Menschen für Menschen , a foundation founded by Karlheinz Böhm that supports self-development in Ethiopia . From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a communications consultant for various non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Eastern Europe and East Africa. From 2004 to 2008 he was communications officer at the Swiss Library for the Blind (SBS) .

He is a co-founder of the organization for donation-financed journalism maiak - The Newsroom of Eastern Europe, which was established on May 1, 2009 based on the American model of ProPublica and was dissolved again in 2011 .

From April 2010 to May 2011, Jürg Vollmer was Co-President of the Switzerland-Russia Society and a board member of the Switzerland-CIS youth exchange .

From 2011 to 2016 he was project manager and editor-in-chief of various media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and companies in Switzerland (including Aroser Zeitung , HMQ Ingenieure , Pizol Bergbahnen and BienenSchweiz - Beekeeping Association of German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland). From 2014 to 2017 he was also an author for the Swiss specialist agricultural magazine “ Die Grüne” and the Swiss news portal watson .

Since 2017, Jürg Vollmer has been the editor-in-chief of “die Grüne”, the Swiss trade magazine for agriculture, and since 2020 the author of the Smart Farming blog in watson .

Vollmer is married and lives in Thun.

Awards

  • Swiss-Russian Journalist Award 2008 for the “Krusenstern” weblog and its “critical but respectful approach to Russia , Belarus and Ukraine ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the "Nebelspalter" Nebelspalter, accessed May 19, 2020
  2. ↑ Juerg Vollmer's LinkedIn profile , accessed May 19, 2020
  3. ↑ watson author Jürg Vollmer watson, accessed May 19, 2020
  4. ↑ Jürg Vollmer becomes the new editor-in-chief , Personal, April 3, 2017
  5. ↑ Smart Farming Blog watson, accessed May 19, 2020
  6. ↑ Journalist Award 2008 ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), message from the Swiss Cooperation Council, Russia from June 20, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Vollmer, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur