Kai Diekmann

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Kai Georg Diekmann (born June 27, 1964 in Ravensburg ) is a German journalist . From 1998 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag and from January 2001 to December 2015 editor-in-chief of the newspaper Bild . Diekmann continued to be the general editor of the Bild group. Diekmann left Springer-Verlag on January 31, 2017. He then took on new roles at the American company Uber .

Life

Youth and Studies

Diekmann was born the son of a lawyer and notary and a medical-technical assistant. He grew up in Bielefeld and attended the Catholic Ursuline School of Mary . There he edited the conservative school newspaper Passepartout . In his childhood he received cello lessons. After graduating from high school , he did his military service from 1983 to 1985 . He first served in the Panzerjägerkompanie 190 in the Lützow barracks in Munster - Handorf and is first lieutenant in the reserve . Then he began a study of the history , German language and literature and politics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. During his military service he became a so-called military fox member of the Franconia Münster fraternity , a striking student union . After leaving in the meantime, he later rejoined.

journalism

He broke off his studies a short time later when he began his professional activity at Axel Springer Verlag in 1985 as a trainee at the Axel Springer journalism school in Hamburg - with stations in Bonn and New York City . There he made a career and was initially parliamentary correspondent for Bild und Bild am Sonntag in Bonn from 1987 onwards .

From 1989 to 1991 he was chief reporter for the illustrated magazine Bunte published by Burda-Verlag . After a brief engagement as deputy editor-in-chief for BZ , he switched to Bild in Hamburg as head of politics in 1992 .

In 1997, Springer CEO Jürgen Richter transferred Diekmann to Springer's foreign service. According to Spiegel , the head of the publishing house was disturbed by Diekmann's good contacts with the Chancellery and the then Springer shareholder Leo Kirch . Then Diekmann took a professional break and traveled to Central America in 1997 . A little later, Richter himself had to leave the publishing house.

Diekmann was able to continue his career under the former Bild editor-in-chief Claus Larass , who rose to the Springer board in 1998 . In 1998 he became editor of the World on Sunday , where he 1 January 2001 to the editor in chief items of the image changed. In 2004 he also became its publisher and editor of Bild am Sonntag .

Under Diekmann had image , once the largest daily newspaper in Europe, a bearing loss of 3,023,694 copies, or the equivalent of 70.9 percent recorded.

As editor-in-chief of Bild , Diekmann was also responsible for the quality of the newspaper's journalistic work. In the recent past, this has again increasingly been the subject of negative media reports ( e.g. from Bildblog and Zapp ). According to this, Bild is said to violate fundamental journalistic principles more often than other German media. The assertion that these violations of the guidelines of the press code had occurred more frequently since Diekmann took over the office of editor-in-chief from his predecessor Udo Röbel in 2000 was justified by a significant increase in the absolute number of reprimands by the press council against Bild during this period.

Diekmann has been on the advisory board of the Turkish daily Hürriyet , which belongs to the Dogan media group, since 2004 . The Axel Springer Verlag holds almost 20 percent of the Dogan subsidiary Dogan TV. At the beginning of November 2015, Axel Springer SE announced that Diekmann would hand over his position as editor-in-chief of Bild to his successor Tanit Koch on January 1, 2016 , and that from then on he would take over as editor-in-chief.

On May 22, 2007, strangers carried out an arson attack on his private car, an R-Class from Mercedes-Benz , in Hamburg-Harvestehude , which was destroyed in the process. A militant group under the name "Militante Campaign" later confessed to the attack in a letter to the dpa .

In October 2009 Kai Diekmann started his own weblog , in which he reported in blog style about his daily work as Bild editor-in-chief. It was announced that the project would run for 100 days, in February 2010 it was discontinued.

In early 2012 Diekmann played a role in the Wulff affair . The then German Federal President Christian Wulff tried to dissuade Diekmann and the CEO of Axel Springer Verlag , Mathias Döpfner , from critical reporting by threatening them with criminal charges.

On December 30, 2016, the publisher announced that Diekmann would be leaving Springer on January 31, 2017 after 30 years.

On January 6, 2017, Der Spiegel reported, among others , that a Springer employee had reported sexual harassment against Diekmann to the Potsdam Public Prosecutor in the summer of 2016 . The employee's allegation was that Diekmann harassed her while bathing after a closed meeting in Potsdam in the summer of 2016. This denied the allegations. Der Spiegel also wrote that, according to the Springer Group, Diekmann's departure had nothing to do with the allegations. The termination had already been planned for more than a year and "at most accelerated the planned departure". The Potsdam public prosecutor's office then investigated suspicion of sexual harassment. The investigations were discontinued at the beginning of August 2017 after no further, objective evidence could be found besides the equally credible but contradicting statements of Diekmann and the employee.

Consultant and entrepreneur

In 2017 Diekmann became a consultant for the American service company Uber . He was appointed to the “Public Policy Advisory Board”, which includes, for example, former US Minister Ray LaHood and former EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes . One of Diekmann's tasks is to advise the company on political issues. The members of the board meet once a year in San Francisco and typically receive company shares instead of payment. A few weeks after Diekmann's engagement, it became known that the Springer Group had a stake in the American company.

Diekmann founded the media agency Storymachine in 2017 with Michael Mronz and the former editor-in-chief of Stern.de Philipp Jessen .

In November 2017, Diekmann and his childhood friend, the ex-investment banker Leonhard Fischer , announced the planning of a “digital asset management”, which will collect and manage around 20 billion euros from private investors. The project under the name Zukunftsfonds was officially launched at the end of May 2018.

Civil litigation

The daily newspaper

Kai Diekmann as a member of the cooperative at the taz general assembly, 2009

Diekmann sued the daily newspaper (taz) when taz author Gerhard Henschel claimed on May 8, 2002 on the satire page Die Truth as a parody of the reporting in the picture that Diekmann had had his penis lengthened surgically in Miami in vain with body parts want. Diekmann sued the taz for omission and 30,000 euros in compensation for pain and suffering due to impermissible interference with his personal rights , defamation and insult . The Berlin regional court decreed an omission, but denied a claim for damages, since Diekmann, as editor-in-chief of Bild, “consciously seeks his economic advantage from violating the personal rights of others” and is therefore “less burdened by the violation of his own personal rights”. He must "assume that the standards that he applies to others are also of concern to himself." An appeal, on the other hand, was given no prospect of success by the Court of Appeal , so both sides withdrew their appeal.

After he had been in charge of the jubilee taz on its 25th birthday as “editor-in-chief for one day”, he became a member of the taz cooperative in May 2009 .

Zapp

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The NDR media magazine Zapp reported in February 2008 about the support of Ole von Beust during the Hamburg state election in 2008 by the picture . The magazine pointed out, among other things, that von Beust was mentioned almost twice as often in the Bild newspaper as his social democratic challenger Michael Naumann . The media magazine stated:

"[...] Bild boss Kai Diekmann made sure in the last election campaign [2004] that his paper drummed for Ole von Beust."

Diekmann repeatedly took legal action against this statement and was unsuccessful in both the first and second instance. After the higher regional court did not allow an appeal , it decided to proceed against it in the context of a non-admission complaint .

The postillon

Since the editor-in-chief of the satirical blog Der Postillon , Stefan Sichermann, used a picture of Kai Diekmann as a parody for his Twitter profile in 2009, he was warned by Diekmann's lawyer with an amount in dispute of 7,500 euros despite the fact that the picture was free of copyright. Sichermann had to pay a low three-digit amount negotiated by his lawyer.

Representations in satire

In the political satire television film Der Minister , broadcast on March 12, 2013 on Sat.1 , Kai Diekmann is parodied as editor-in-chief Jan Breitmann of the fictional newspaper Blitz Kurier , embodied by the actor Thomas Heinze . The background is an influence and courting of the former German Minister of Economic Affairs and Defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and his wife Stephanie by Diekmann and Bild .

At the beginning of February 2014, the JMB Verlag published "The Kai - BILD boss Kai Diekmann in caricatures, pictures & figures" - an unauthorized, drawn biography of the Munich journalist and caricaturist Peter Böhling .

Diekmann's networking with think tanks and political elites was criticized on April 29, 2014 by the satirical program “ Die Anstalt ”.

Memberships

Diekmann is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke association and was a member of its board until June 2010. He completed its “Young Leaders” program in 1995. Diekmann acted as the city sponsor for the city of Ravensburg for the aid project We Help Africa .

Diekmann has been a member since 2017 and chairman of the German Friends of the Israeli Holocaust -Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem . After Springer-Verlag succeeded in acquiring the only remaining original construction plans for the Auschwitz concentration camp on the black market for an unknown amount in 2008 , Diekmann wanted to donate them to the memorial. According to the Federal Archives , however, they had been promised to hand over the plans. Together with the Federal Ministry of the Interior , they took the view that the plans were federal property and threatened to prevent the plans from being exported at the border. This version contradicts the prospect of a donation receipt for the delivery of the plans. Diekmann denied that the archive had been given such a promise and expressed concern that the plans would disappear in the "drawer" there. Therefore, he handed them over to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the occasion of his visit to Germany in August 2009.

Private

Diekmann is the son of a doctorate lawyer and notary, Klaus Diekmann (* 1934 in Bielefeld ) and the medical-technical assistant Brigitte Diekmann, b. Zajic. He has two sisters.

Diekmann is Catholic and was married from 1995 to 1997 to the journalist Jonica Jahr, a daughter of the Hamburg publisher John Jahr junior . He has been married to the Bild columnist Katja Kessler since January 28, 2002 , with former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was a friend of Diekmann's, best man. On May 8, 2008, Diekmann and Leo Kirch were again the best man at the wedding of Helmut Kohl and Maike Richter . The Diekmann couple have four children.

Awards

Fonts

Web links

Commons : Kai Diekmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I'll be a picture": media coverage of the change in boss and Kai Diekmann's new role . In: meedia.de, November 6, 2016, accessed April 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ After 30 years: Diekmann leaves Springer . In: focus.de from December 30, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Kai Diekmann - Munzinger biography. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Dominik Butzmann (photos): Don't say anything now, Kai Diekmann. An interview in which the editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper says nothing and yet reveals everything. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (online). April 2009, accessed September 2, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Christopher Lesko: http://meedia.de/nc/print/wer-belieben-sein-will-darf-nicht-bild-chef- Werden/2011/08/ 25.html ( Memento from 11. February 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) . In: meedia.de, August 25, 2011, accessed on February 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b c d Speakers - Medientage Passau 2011 ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Website of the Media Days Passau. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ Prominent fraternity members . sueddeutsche.de, accessed on February 20, 2012.
  8. ^ War of nerves at Springer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1997 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Diekmann's comeback . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1998 ( online ).
  10. ^ Elisabeth Niejahr : Riots in the capital , Die Zeit No. 04/2001
  11. ^ "Bild" boss Diekmann on the advisory board of the Turkish "Hürriyet" , Spiegel Online , November 13, 2004
  12. ↑ axelspringer.de ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Image: Kai Diekmann gives up editor-in-chief - ZEIT ONLINE. In: zeit.de. Retrieved November 5, 2015 .
  14. ^ Arson attack on car by Bild editor-in-chief Diekmann ( Memento of November 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Basler Zeitung , May 22, 2007
  15. ^ Arson attack carried out on Kai Diekmann's car , Bildblog , May 22, 2007
  16. ↑ Complete documentation of the letter on the arson attack, Interim , No. 657, p. 21 f.
  17. ↑ What's this now ?! Three questions, three answers - from me to me . Article on kaidiekmann.de , October 26, 2009
  18. ↑ Lukas Heinser: Known from: "Der Dummschwätzer" . In: bildblog.de, February 8, 2010; accessed on April 16, 2017.
  19. ↑ Jörg Thomann: Kai Diekmann, the blogger “An Excessive Ego Trip” , faz.net, February 2, 2010; accessed on January 7, 2017.
  20. ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Wulff threatened "Bild" journalists with criminal charges . In: sueddeutsche.de , January 2, 2012; accessed on April 16, 2017.
  21. ↑ After 30 years: Diekmann puts an end to Springer . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , December 30, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016.
  22. ↑ Kai Diekmann leaves Springer . In: Turi2 Branchendienst of December 30, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016.
  23. ^ Allegations against Diekmann . In: Der Spiegel , 2/2017, January 7, 2017, p. 21.
  24. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : Sexual Harassment? , faz.net, January 6, 2017, accessed January 6, 2017.
  25. ↑ Springer employee accuses Diekmann of harassment . Spiegel Online , January 6, 2017, accessed January 7, 2017.
  26. ^ Public prosecutor's office closes investigations against Kai Diekmann . Spiegel Online , August 2, 2017, accessed October 9, 2019.
  27. ↑ Investigation against Kai Diekmann closed . At: Zeit Online , August 2, 2017, accessed October 9, 2019.
  28. ↑ Martin U. Müller: Kai Diekmann becomes a consultant for Uber. In: Der Spiegel . April 14, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Axel Springer Verlag joins Uber . In: faz.net . April 19, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  30. ↑ Gregory Lipinski: Storymachine: This is what the new project by Philipp Jessen, Kai Diekmann and Michael Mronz is all about. In: meedia . October 26, 2017, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  31. ↑ AFP: Kai Diekmann founds digital asset management. In: FAZ.net . November 16, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  32. ↑ https://www.wiwo.de/my/finanzen/geldanlage/viel-bektivenes-anlageprodukt-das-steckt-hinter-diekmanns-zukunftsfonds/22595718.html?inOverwrites=%7B%7D&ticket=ST-1424068-PBtfpZBFs4QnyqX5crVc- ap4 (accessed June 17, 2018)
  33. ↑ Hardly any new money: Kai Diekmann's "Zukunftsfonds" has apparently made a false start. In: Spiegel Online . June 14, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Excerpt from the judgment of the Berlin Regional Court on the penis trial , the daily newspaper , January 18, 2003
  35. ↑ Penis process not lengthened . In: the daily newspaper , May 3, 2003
  36. ↑ cf. Der Tagesspiegel , May 12, 2009, p. 31.
  37. ↑ Ole is the darling of the "Bild" newspaper . ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) the daily newspaper , February 15, 2008
  38. ^ Election campaign in Hamburg - The fight for the headlines . ( Memento from March 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Norddeutscher Rundfunk , February 13, 2008
  39. ^ Website Der Postillon
  40. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : Will the real Kai Diekmann please stand up? In: bildblog.de , December 9, 2009; accessed on April 16, 2017.
  41. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY6-KsduC2U
  42. ^ Daniel Goffart, Hans G. Nagel: Wave of departure: Exodus on the board of the Atlantik-Brücke . In: handelsblatt .com, June 7, 2010; accessed on April 16, 2017.
  43. ↑ Summary of the 28th “Young Leaders” conference from August 26 to September 1, 2006 ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 82 kB) In: atlantik-bruecke.org (English); Retrieved October 10, 2013.
  44. ↑ How Kai Diekmann had the Auschwitz construction plans removed from the country , sueddeutsche.de of July 5, 2016.
  45. ↑ Original interview in the Israeli online magazine Spitz from June 2016 (Hebrew language)
  46. ↑ Star portrait by Kai Diekmann . At: gq-magazin.de , accessed on February 20, 2012.
  47. ↑ a b Josef Seitz: My father and I: Celebrities tell, Kösel-Verlag, 2012, p. 34/35 [1]
  48. ↑ Golden Compass 2000. In: www.medieninitiative.pro. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Diekmann, Kai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diekmann, Kai Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg