Jochen Dieckmann (journalist)

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Jochen Dieckmann (born September 11, 1959 ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Dieckmann was born the son of a pharmacist and a pharmacist. He passed his Abitur at the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld in the same year as Hans Zippert , Ingolf Lück and Andreas Liebold .

Between his journalistic activities he was always on the road as a truck driver, initially with destinations such as Turkey or socialist Eastern Bloc countries; later he drove trucks across Europe and as far as North Africa for a Dutch forwarding company.

From 1986 to 1987 Dieckmann was press spokesman for the citizens' initiative against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant (WAA). He has worked as a journalist for radio and specialist magazines since 1990. Like Steffen Hallaschka , he was one of the presenters of the youth program “ Radio Unfrisiert ” on Hessischer Rundfunk in the 1990s . From 2000 to 2005 he worked in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the FDP member Joachim Schultz-Tornau and also for Jürgen W. Möllemann until his death .

In 2011 Dieckmann published the book: We sleep at the end of the month . He moderated the program “ET Radio”: TRANSPORT IN THE NETZ all about “Transport and Logistics”.

In 2019 Diekmann explored the project in a camper van: Silk Road - One Belt, One Road from Wuppertal via China to Cambodia and wrote his book: Far East - On the Fast Lane .

Dieckmann lives in Wuppertal. His sister is the artist Bärbel Dieckmann .

Web links

credentials

  1. We sleep at the end of the month
  2. Book: "Far East on the Fast Lane - Westendverlag, ISBN 978-3-86489-131-1 .
  3. TV report in SWR1 - Jochen Dieckmann - Now drove the New Silk Road to China
  4. From Wuppertal to China by mobile home - Deutsche Welle (dw)