Jürgen C. Jagla

Jürgen C. Jagla (born July 30, 1926 in Gleiwitz , † April 26, 1992 in Pulheim ) was a German journalist .

In 1948 Jürgen C. Jagla came to Cologne , where he initially worked as a freelance journalist and, among other things, as a correspondent in Algeria . In 1954 he joined the editorial team of the daily newspaper Der Mittag in Düsseldorf , which was discontinued in 1967. Then he worked briefly for Christ and the world . In 1968 he went to the Kölnische Rundschau and from 1969 to 1978 headed its local editorial office.

In 1975/76 Jagla was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize , the journalist prize of the German newspapers, for his series of articles about the Herstatt bankruptcy . In 1979 he became editor-in-chief of the Kölnische Rundschau . Under his leadership, the Rundschau was one of the first German newspapers to advocate reconciliation with the Soviet Union . Jagla was of the opinion that "the war with the USSR brought us into the moral guilt of the Soviet Union".

In his spare time Jagla was an avid jazz musician ; he played the saxophone . He wrote several texts for the covers of jazz records .

Publications

• Dream streets of Morocco . With photos by Wolfgang Fritz. Munich. Süddeutscher Verlag 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle: For six decades in the service of readers on rundschau-online.de v. March 17, 2006
2. ↑ Das Ostpreußenblatt , November 22, 1986, p. 4 (PDF; 16.7 MB)
3. ↑ discogs.com

literature

• Cologne People Lexicon . Edited by Ulrich S. Soénius and Jürgen Wilhelm. Cologne. Greven Verlag 2008. p. 262 f.