Johannes Binkowski

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Johannes Aloysius Joseph Binkowski (born November 27, 1908 in Neisse , Upper Silesia , † March 22, 1996 in Stuttgart ) was a German journalist, publicist and newspaper publisher .

Life

Johannes Binkowski, son of the Upper Silesian journalist and workers secretary Emil Binkowski and brother of Bernhard Binkowski , graduated from high school Carolinum in Neisse in 1927 and then studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Wroclaw and Cologne, and in 1935 he started working on value theory at the University of Cologne of Johannes Duns Scotus as Dr. phil. PhD. Until 1940 he was a consultant for adult education at the Hoheneckzentrale Berlin and also a publicist. After the publication of a book on religious adult education, he was banned from writing by the National Socialists. In 1940 he was called up as a soldier; In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the United States. After being a prisoner of war, from 1946 to 1947 he was head of the reopened Caritas educational center in Haus Marientann in Wolfegg in Upper Swabia .

In 1948 he became a license holder in the American zone together with Karl Eduard Conrads, later Konrad Theiss, and founded the Swabian Post . He was chairman of the Association of Southwest German Newspaper Publishers. In 1968 he and the Protestant press theologian Dr. Ernst Müller from Tübingen and the Ulmer publishing and printing heir Eberhard Ebner together 37 publishers with 48 newspapers in the “Ulmer Gazettenfabrik” cooperation.

Binkowski was, among other things, a member of the ZDF television council , where he chaired the guidelines committee. From 1970 to 1980 he was President of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV). In 1966 he was the founding chairman of the Stiftervereinigung der Presse e. V. In 1967 he submitted a “Guide to good journalistic behavior” to the German Press Council.

In 1960 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested on April 30, 1960 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was the successor to Hermann Josef Abs and from 1985 to 1991 governor of the German Lieutenancy of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. From 1969 to 1978 he was chairman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Stuttgart .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Path and goal. Memoirs of a publisher and publicist , Stuttgart / Düsseldorf 1981.
  • (Ed.): Heritage and task. The Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Cologne 1981.
  • The tasks of the knight order , in: Order letter for the 50th anniversary of the Lieutenancy 9. – 11. December 1983 in Cologne (= special issue of the magazine of the German Lieutenancy "Deus lo vult"), pp. 6–11.

literature

  • Gertraude Steindl: Journalism as a profession. Festschrift for Johannes Binkowski on the occasion of the completion of his 70th year , Droste Verlag Düsseldorf 1978
  • Rolf Terheyden: Profession and calling. Second Festschrift for Johannes Binkowski , v. Hare u. Koehler Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7758-1185-0
  • Heinrich Dickmann / Paul Theodor Oldenkott (eds.): Heritage and task: The Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-461-7 , pp. 327–337.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "50 years" Schwäbische Post "in Aalen" , BDZV, March 12, 1998.
  2. ^ "Wende am Freitag" , Der Spiegel , March 11, 1968
  3. ↑ "Press Code: The Idea" , German Press Council , viewed on April 7, 2011
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.
  5. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 .

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predecessor Office successor
Hermann Josef Paragraph Governor of the German Lieutenancy of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
1985–1991 		Peter Heidinger
personal data
SURNAME Binkowski, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binkowski, Johannes Aloysius Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publicist and newspaper publisher, governor of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1996
Place of death Stuttgart