Karl-Georg von Stackelberg

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Karl-Georg Graf von Stackelberg (born 19 . Jul / 1. August  1913 greg. In Arensburg , Russian Empire ; † 28. August 1980 in Rosenheim ) was a German market researcher, author and consultant.

Life

Karl Georg von Stackelberg comes from the Baltic noble family Stackelberg . His father Herbert von Stackelberg (1876–1914) was Rittmeister and President of the Öselschen Oberbauergericht. At the end of the First World War , the mother Carla Menzel (1889–1948) fled to the German Empire with her son. In 1938, von Stackelberg received German citizenship.

He studied economics and sociology , but left the university without a degree. Then worked as a freelance journalist and writer. Already in the Spanish Civil War von Stackelberg was Special Rapporteur of the largest daily newspapers in the Condor Legion . Together with Herbert Reinecker and Wilhelm Utermann , he wrote an experience report, printed thousands of times, about the attack on Poland : Panzer forward! In 1942 he posthumously glorified Corporal Brinkforth, who had received the Knight's Cross in 1941 for an achievement in the French campaign . At the end of the war, von Stackelberg was a lieutenant. Nine of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .

In 1945 Karl-Georg von Stackelberg founded the opinion research institute Emnid in Bielefeld , one of the first institutes of its kind in Germany. From 1963 to 1964 he was President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research . He was also an advisor to Economics Minister and Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard .

After the sale of Emnid in 1966, von Stackelberg worked as a management consultant. He was the founder of the local Lions Clubs in Bielefeld and Munich, and co-founder and chairman of the Action Community .

In 1969 he was adopted by Stackelberg and called himself Graf from then on. He was third married to Viktoria-Luise Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe , with whom he had two sons.

Honors

Fonts

  • Legion Condor. German volunteers in Spain. Berlin: The home library 1939
  • with Herbert Reinecker and Wilhelm Utermann : tanks forward! Tank men tell of the campaign in Poland . With 20 drawings by Hans O. Wendt. Publishing house Die Heimbücherei, Berlin 1939
  • Fighter Group G . Graz: Steir. Verl.-Anst. 1940
  • I was there, I saw, I wrote . Berlin: Schützen-Verl. 1940
  • I want to go back to Germany . Graz: Steirische Verl. Anst. 1941
  • Rider forward !. A factual account of the fighting and deeds of an equestrian division during the war against France . Berlin: Schützen-Verlag 1942
  • Enemies . Berlin: Schützen-Verl. 1942
  • The hour of Private Brinkforth. Hubert Brinkforth, the first private with the Knight's Cross, tells about himself and his deed . Berlin: Schützen-Verlag 1942
  • The second way . Berlin: Schützen-Verl. 1942
  • Past me . Berlin: The home library 1942
  • 1965: All Cretans lie: Prejudices about people and peoples
  • 1966: Against the arbitrariness of the mighty
  • 1967: Attack on Germany's talisman
  • 1969: Market strategy without secrets
  • Prompter on the political stage. On the power of opinions and the opinions of the mighty . Modern industry, Munich 1975
  • 1976: The painter Botho von Gamp
  • 1979: The remote controlled human?

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberbauergericht and not like Munzinger Oberbauerngericht , see Baltic Legal Dictionary , Baltic Historical Commission
  2. ↑ Book advertisement of the publishing house Die Heimbücherei, in tanks forward! , [S. 258]
  3. ^ Search term Karl Georg Stackelberg at polunbi, accessed on October 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Stackelberg, Karl-Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stackelberg, Karl Georg von (name until 1945)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German market researcher, author and consultant
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Arensburg
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1980
Place of death Rosenheim