Johann Georg Reissmüller

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Johann Georg Reißmüller (born February 20, 1932 in Leitmeritz , Czechoslovakia , in older representations also Reissmüller ; † December 10, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German journalist and co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Career

Reissmüller was born in Leitmeritz in the Sudetenland in 1932 and spent his childhood there. Reissmüller took singing lessons at a young age. After the Second World War he was expelled from his homeland in 1946 and ended up in Western Pomerania , where he came into conflict with communists in high school. At the end of 1950 he fled to West Berlin , where he received his doctorate in law. He was then from 1957 to 1961 editor of the Tübingen law journal (JZ).

In 1961, Reissmüller moved to the FAZ and was the correspondent in Belgrade from 1967 to 1971 . His subjects were Eastern European communism, Yugoslav socialism and the churches there. In 1974 he became one of the five editors of the FAZ.

In 1991, especially in his articles in the FAZ, Reißmüller advocated the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia under international law . In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Zagreb .

On March 1, 1999, his time as editor of the FAZ ended. On his farewell, Johann Georg Reissmüller sang songs of the early GDR in the publishing house, accompanied on the piano by the journalist and musicologist Heribert Klein . Due to the great interest in his song lectures, the publishing house Zweiausendeins produced a CD entitled We Like This World - Songs of the Early GDR .

Reissmüller died on December 10, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main.

Influence on German politics

According to the German diplomat Jürgen Chrobog , Reißmüller's comments and leading articles in the FAZ had a considerable influence on the political decision-makers in Germany when it came to recognizing the successor states of Yugoslavia .

Works (selection)

music

  • Johann Georg Reissmüller: We like this world - songs from the early GDR. 55 min CD, Biton 4007 at Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt / M. 2000.

literature

  • Fritz Behrendt (author), Johann Georg Reißmüller (preface): A pen for freedom: Drawings and caricatures 1950–2000. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA, 2000, ISBN 3-421-05347-2 .

Own publications

  • Yugoslavia. Multi-ethnic state between East and West . Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-424-00409-X .
  • as editor: 111 contemporaries. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7973-0297-5 .
  • The forgotten half. Eastern Europe and us. Langen Müller, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2124-5 .
  • The war on our doorstep. Background to the historical tragedy . Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-421-06543-8 .
  • The Bosnian tragedy . Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-421-06657-4 .
  • As editor: I would like to say ... letters to the editor in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 50 years. Keyser, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87405-246-X .

Essay

  • Johann Georg Reissmüller: The monopoly of the Federal Constitutional Court from Article 18 of the Basic Law. Juristenteitung 1960, p. 529 ff. (On the forfeiture of basic rights)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Péter Hahn: Literature in Frankfurt: a lexicon for reading. Athenaeum, 1987, ISBN 3-610-08448-0 , p. 459.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Lukas (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): You edit and write the Frankfurter Allgemeine, newspaper for Germany. In: The newspaper. 1991, p. 89.
  3. ↑ Matthias Kamann: Battle Chants. In: Welt Online . January 13, 2000, archived from the original on April 11, 2011 ; Retrieved April 11, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b c d K. Knauf: Criticón. 1988, issues 105–116, p. 117.
  5. ↑ a b c Word and Truth. Volume 24, Herder, 1969, p. 192.
  6. ↑ The SU wins in space: We like this world - songs of the early GDR. In: highlightzone.de. April 8, 2010, archived from the original on April 11, 2011 ; Retrieved April 11, 2011 .
  7. ↑ a b Michael Martens : "Or it will fall apart" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 15, 2012, p. 7 ( faz.net - statement by diplomat Jürgen Chrobog in the article: "His [i.e., Reißmüller's; note] almost daily editorials on this question drove Kohl's Yugoslavia policy.").
  8. ↑ Johann Georg Reißmüller honored. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 23, 1995, No. 19, p. 4.
  9. ^ Adolf Theobald: Press review: The Pentagon of the FAZ. Five heads think for Germany. In: Zeit Online . November 12, 1998, archived from the original on April 11, 2011 ; Retrieved April 11, 2011 .
  10. ↑ a b c Berthold Kohler: An iron witness of the 20th century. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 11, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Reissmüller, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reissmüller, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitmeritz
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2018
Place of death Frankfurt am Main