Jochen Thies

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Jochen Thies (born September 18, 1944 in Rauschen ) is a German historian , journalist and publicist .

Life

Thies was born in East Prussia in 1944 . He studied Romance languages , history and political science at the University of Kiel , the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne and in 1975 at Andrew Hill Gruber in Freiburg with a thesis on Hitler's final aims to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1976 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in London. Then he worked in the editorial department of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . From 1980 to 1982 he was deputy group leader in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn and worked as a speechwriter for Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD). He was then parliamentary correspondent in Bonn and from 1986 to 1992 editor-in-chief of the specialist journal Europa-Archiv / Internationale Zeitschrift . In 1993 he became head of the foreign policy department of the daily newspaper Die Welt . In 1996 he briefly headed the English-language program of Deutsche Welle in Cologne. From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the chief editor, special correspondent and department head for politics and background at Deutschlandradio in Berlin. In 2005 he was at the Federal Academy for Security Policy and in 2008 he became a Fellow of the RIAS Berlin Commission at Duke University in Durham.

He is a diverse journalist and has published several books, including family biographies of the Moltkes and Bismarcks in Piper Verlag and the Dohnányis in Propylaeen .

Thies is married and has one daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Architect of world domination. Hitler's “final goals” . Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-0425-6 (also dissertation).
  • with Jost Dülffer , Josef Henke: Hitler's cities. Building policy in the Third Reich. A documentation . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-412-03477-0 .
  • with Kurt von Daak: Southwest Germany zero hour. The history of the French zone of occupation 1945–1948. A picture-text tape . Droste, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-7700-0547-3 .
  • Helmut Schmidt's retreat from power. The end of the Schmidt era at close range. Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-87959-376-7 .
  • The Dohnanyis. A family biography . Propylaea, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-549-07190-6 .
  • The Moltkes. From Königgrätz to Kreisau. A German family story . Piper, Munich a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05380-8 .
  • The Bismarcks. A German dynasty . Piper, Munich a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05503-1 .
  • We are part of this society. Insights into the educational initiatives of the Gülen movement . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30698-3 .

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SURNAME Thies, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Noise