John Siegfried Mehnert

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John Siegfried Mehnert

John Siegfried Mehnert (born January 19, 1940 in Leipzig ), also John S. Mehnert , is a German whistleblower and actor .

Life

He spent his school days in Bremen and graduated from high school. He studied politics in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1967 he graduated with a degree in political science from Ernst Fraenkel at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 1968 he was first assistant to Berthold Beitz and soon afterwards press spokesman at Krupp . In 1970 he switched to Spiegel , where he worked as a business editor and correspondent until 1974. In 1977 he started as press director at the corporate headquarters of Neue Heimat (NH) with a seat on the board.

The biggest economic scandal in post-war history

Mehnert was fired after three years by group boss Albert Vietor because he had not prevented a negative report in Stern about the group. At the end of his term of office he found evidence of extensive private transactions of almost all NH board members to the detriment of the NH tenants, had them published in Spiegel in 1982 and thus initially triggered the dismissal of the entire board and, as a result, the collapse of the Neue Heimat group within around ten years.

The group then sued Vietor for damages, but he died a few weeks before the trial began. By selling almost all of the housing stock, the shareholders, the trade unions, tried to curb their high debt caused by the new home. In the end, this only succeeded through the further sale of the union shares in the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft and the insurance group Volksfürsorge . Neue Heimat ceased to exist in the early 1990s. Mehnert then changed his profession.

Second acting career

He went to the theater. At first he opened his own cabaret stage on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg and then became a member of the drama ensemble at the Bremen Theater ( Theater am Goetheplatz ) under the direction of András Fricsay . There he played in plays by Shakespeare , Brecht and Beckett .

He was a guest on numerous stages a. a. the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , Schlosstheater Celle , Theater Dortmund and the Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg. Mehnert played alongside Peter Lohmeyer in the film Die Eroberung der Mitte , as well as in many television supporting roles , including in the Tatort of ARD and ZDF in Faust . He participated in radio plays and gave recitation evenings about Rilke and Saint-Exupéry and toured with a solo piece under the title Jenseits des Zauns u. a. at the Emsdetten Theater Days.

Radio plays (selection)

Publications

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://emskult.de/Flyer_25_Jahre_emskult.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Mehnert, John Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehnert, John S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German whistleblower and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen