Jürgen Eick

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Jürgen Eick (born March 24, 1920 in Dresden ; † May 13, 1990 in Rosenheim ) was a German business journalist , publicist and co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Life

Eick was born the son of a teacher. His father, who had become the director of a commercial college in Freital, was dismissed during the National Socialist era . Eick attended the Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden and was then committed to the Reich Labor Service and the Wehrmacht . He was seriously wounded and studied 1941-1944 political economy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin (diploma). In 1942 he wrote one of the war booklets from the war library of the German youth , Panzerspähtrupp overdue , which served to inspire the German youth for National Socialism and war.

In 1947 he was at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the economic consequences of the division of Germany into zones for Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He co-founded the Wirtschafts-Zeitung in Stuttgart. He then became the business editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1949 he became head of the business editorial department at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1963 to 1986 he was co-editor of the paper. In 1985 he became editor of the daily newspaper Die Neue Ärztliche Allgemeine Zeitung for clinics and practices . In addition, he was curator of the Fazit Foundation and author of numerous books. Eick achieved his first major journalistic success in 1955 with the book Angina Temporis , which he had written with Kurt Gauger . In other publications, he mainly devoted himself to economic policy issues.

The editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Jürgen Jeske , paid tribute to Eick in the obituary A life for the newspaper and the market economy . Jeske emphasizes in the introduction: “It was a stroke of luck for business journalism in the Federal Republic and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, to whose founding generation he was one. Jürgen Eick was a committed campaigner for the social market economy, which Ludwig Ehrhard called a 'brother of the same spirit'. And he was a staunch German who was always worried about this country and its people. "

Eick was married and the father of two children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Tank scout overdue. War library of the German youth, No. 122, Steiniger, Berlin 1942.
  • The economic consequences of the zone borders. Attempt of a theory of economic unbundling . Union Verlag, Hamburg 1948.
  • with Kurt Gauer : Angina Temporis. Time pressure, the disease of our day. An economist and a doctor on the subject: No time! Droste, Düsseldorf 1955.
  • When milk and honey flow. An economically critical study . Droste, Düsseldorf 1958.
  • The little man's century. A time-sensitive study . Droste, Düsseldorf 1961.
  • Economic quiz. The German economy in questions and answers . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • (Ed.): How to use the business section of a daily newspaper . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7973-0200-2 .
  • How to ruin an economy. The political errors of our day . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-7973-0254-1 .
  • The regime of the powerless . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7973-0292-4 .
  • When milk and honey still flowed. Memories of the market economy . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-06115-7 .
  • From ignorance to confidence. Journalist's Dictionary . Keyser, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-87405-194-3 .

literature

  • Vera Derschum et al .: The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 242.
  • Jürgen Eick , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1990 of July 16, 1990, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Köpf , Writing in Every Direction - Goebbels Propagandists in the West German Post-War Press, Berlin 1995, pp. 185f.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Jeske: A life for the newspaper and the market economy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 15, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Eick, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist, publicist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1990
Place of death Rosenheim