Joachim Sobotta
Joachim Sobotta (born March 21, 1932 in Glatz ; † June 10, 2017 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and journalist . He was editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Post .
Life
Sobotta came from Lower Silesia . After graduating from high school in Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony, and doing an internship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) in Essen, he studied law (state examination) at the Free University of Berlin , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University from 1955 to 1959 Bonn . In 1973 he was at the law and political science faculty of the University of Bonn with the dissertation The right to information of the press. An investigation into Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law and the press laws of the federal states on Dr. jur. PhD.
From 1959 to 1963 he was the political correspondent for the Deutsche Zeitung in Essen. He then worked as an editor in the parliamentary editorial office of the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf. From 1969 to 1997 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He was also a member of the editors-in-chief discussion group of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) and a member of the board of trustees and juror of the Theodor Wolff Prize.
From 2005 until his death he was a board member of the East German Cultural Council Foundation (OKR).
Sobotta had been married since 1962 and had two children.
Awards
- 1978: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1979: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1984: Donkey order of the Hanseatic city of Wesel
- 1987: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1990: Theodor Wolff Prize
Fonts (selection)
- Day works. Leading article from three decades of Rheinische Post . Droste, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-7700-1089-2 .
literature
- Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 36th edition 1997/1998, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-7950-2021-2 , p. 1366.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Sobotta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joachim Sobotta in the German Digital Library
- Search for "Joachim Sobotta" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative page by Joachim Sobotta. Retrieved June 18, 2017 .
- ^ The donkey order carriers 1980–1989 , Hanseatic City of Wesel, accessed on August 20, 2014.
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sobotta, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bald |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 2017 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |