Jürgen Tern

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Jürgen Tern (born July 1, 1909 in Nordleda ; † February 20, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German journalist, publicist and political commentator. From 1960 to 1970 he was one of the editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Live and act

Jürgen Tern went to the village school in his place of birth and in 1918 moved to the Hohenzollern high school in Berlin-Schöneberg . From 1927 he studied history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , since 1931 he was a freelance journalist. In 1936 he became an employee of the Berlin business editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung , from 1942 to 1945 he did military service. After the end of the war in 1945 he was involved in the beginnings of the Weserkurier in Bremen. From 1946 to 1956 he worked as an editor for the business newspaper and the German newspaper and business newspaper in Stuttgart .

In 1956 Tern moved to Frankfurt, where he was the head of the political editorship of the FAZ until 1960. On January 1, 1960 he became the political editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . In the dispute, among other things, about the Ostpolitik of the Brandt / Scheel government , which Tern was in favor of, he was given leave of absence in May 1970 and his editor was dismissed on September 1 of the same year. He was considered an advocate of liberal politics. The reasons for the termination of the contractual relationship lie in serious internal differences about the principle and practice of the collegial management of the journal entrusted to the editorial board ... , wrote the management, among other things in the explanation.

In 1971 he was commissioned by Südwestfunk Baden-Baden to take a critical look at the German newspaper and magazine market once a month. He also wrote articles for newspapers (including for Vorwärts ) and for magazines. He had been working as a political commentator for Hessischer Rundfunk since 1960. In 1974 he was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse .

Tern lived in Frankfurt am Main. He died of cardiovascular failure. He appointed FAZ managing director Hans-Wolfgang Pfeifer to be his estate administrator, and he was reconciled with his former colleague Erich Welter .

Fonts

  • The critical newspaper reader , CH Beck, Munich 1973.

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Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Wilke : An island of freedom. The FAZ is not the legal successor to the “Frankfurter Zeitung”, which Hitler banned in 1943. But many traditions from 150 years of history connect to this day. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 16, 2016, p. 8.
  2. Obituary . In: Der Spiegel from February 25, 1975.