Jürgen Emig

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Jürgen Emig (born August 3, 1945 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German television reporter and former head of the Sport Radio + TV department of the Hessischer Rundfunk . He is mainly known to a wider audience for his cycling presentations for the Tour de France .

Career

In 1968 Emig commented on his first soccer game between MSV Duisburg and FC Bayern Munich . In addition to his work as a moderator in the Bundesliga, Emig also commented on international matches for the German national team.

Emig's stations as a journalist are: 1966–1967 Südwestfunk Mainz ; 1968–1987 Saarländischer Rundfunk , Radio + TV; 1984 “ Silver Ball ” ( NOK media award for his television coverage of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984).

Doctorate in 1986. Emig at the Saarland University for Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was the generation of information via a multi-stage journalistic selection and decision-making process, presented in the background reporting in the field of sport .

From November 1987 Emig worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk, where he reported, among other things, as a reporter from the 1996 Olympic handball tournament in Atlanta and the 1998 World Cup in France .

Prosecution

On March 23, 2004, Emig resigned from the head of the sports department of the Hessischer Rundfunk after an internal audit of the broadcaster revealed dubious events in two reports. Emig was arrested on June 28, 2005 because of the risk of blackout in connection with a bribery affair, in which he was accused of an initial suspicion of bribery and anti-competitive agreements in tenders . Because the allegations of the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office could not be cleared up by Emig's lawyers, the HR pronounced his former head of sports on July 14, 2005, giving his former head of sports an extraordinary termination without notice ( suspicion of termination due to fraud, breach of trust and bribery).

On May 4, 2007, the Frankfurt public prosecutor brought charges against Jürgen Emig on suspicion of fraud, embezzlement, corruption and bribery. The public prosecutor's office accused Emig of having smuggled sponsorship funds past the Hessischer Rundfunk via the front company SMP. The co-accused SMP managing director and former president of the German Dance Sports Association Harald Frahm acted as a front man for Emig. Prosecutor Michael Loer said of Emig: "He betrayed the freedom of broadcasting and sold editorial decisions." The prosecutor's claim was three and a half years in prison.

On October 2, 2008, Emig was sentenced by the Frankfurt am Main regional court to two years and eight months in prison for corruption, aiding and abetting bribery and breach of trust. In the grounds of the verdict, the judge attested to the former sports journalist's "brazen approach" and "quite a lot of criminal energy". The court took into account Emig's partial confession and the fact that he was facing financial and social ruin due to the loss of his profession. Frahm was sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year and ten months on October 2, 2008 for bribery and aiding and abetting of breach of trust. He also had to pay a fine of 100,000 euros. Emig appealed against the judgment of the regional court without success, the judgment was confirmed on November 27, 2009 by the Federal Court of Justice .

The labor court in Frankfurt am Main sentenced Emig on April 13, 2011 in another proceeding to pay 1.1 million euros in damages to Hessischer Rundfunk. The dismissal protection suit was dismissed. This judgment was confirmed in terms of content on January 11, 2013 by a comparison of the two parties before the Hessian State Labor Court. Emig was supposed to pay 1.1 million euros to the broadcaster, but the sum should be offset against this in the event of a complete waiver of all claims from his company pension. Originally, the broadcaster demanded 1.78 million euros from Emig.

Private

Jürgen Emig was married to a journalist and has two children with her. He is now married for a second time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The case of Jürgen Emig: Ex-hr sports director has to go to jail quotenmeter.de October 2, 2008
  2. ↑ hr-online.de of September 2, 2008: Plea of ​​the public prosecutor's office - three and a half years for Emig required ( memento of September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ taz.de of October 2, 2008: Almost three years imprisonment
  4. ↑ tagesschau.de of November 27, 2009: Ex-sports director Emig must be in custody ( Memento of November 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ BGH, judgment of November 27, 2009 , Az. 2 StR 104/09, full text.
  6. ^ Emig corruption case: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Rhein-Main-Zeitung, January 12, 2013, p. 41
  7. ↑ Legal dispute between HR and Emig ended  ( 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. FNP of January 14, 2013, accessed June 20, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  8. ↑ t-online.de of October 6, 2008: Convicted and abandoned , accessed on February 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Emig, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television reporter and former head of the “Sport Radio + TV” department at Hessischer Rundfunk
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern