Karl Feldmeyer
Karl Feldmeyer (born November 30, 1938 in Mindelheim ; † December 18, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German journalist . He dealt in particular with questions of Germany and security policy. Feldmeyer was a proven expert on politics and internal structures of the CDU and CSU through his many years of correspondent activity .
Life
After graduating from high school in Mainz and doing an internship at the Frankfurter Neue Presse, Feldmeyer studied political science and history . Since June 1, 1971 he was employed as an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Since 1976 he has been their correspondent in Bonn , since 1999, after the move of the Bundestag and the federal government , to Berlin . At the end of 2004, Feldmeyer left the FAZ and retired at the age of 65.
Since retiring, he has supported the national-conservative initiatives “Alliance for the Rule of Law” and “Civil Coalition for Germany”. Both projects were initiated and run by the couple Sven and Beatrix von Storch , as well as the blog newspaper Die Freie Welt , for which Karl Feldmeyer published and was a member of the editorial board. In the short version of the self-promotion video of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Karl Feldmeyer can be seen alongside Herbert Fleissner , Bernd Rabehl , Rolf Hochhuth , Fritz Schenk and Thor Kunkel as an advocate of Junge Freiheit , for which he also worked as an author .
Among other things, he was a member of the Clausewitz Society . Feldmeyer was the senior man of the Mainz Academic-Music Association in the Sondershäuser Association .
Awards
In 1978 Feldmeyer was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers for his report on the Bundeswehr espionage case in Lutze / Wiegel .
In 2006 Feldmeyer was awarded the same honor again, this time for his life's work.
In November 2013 Feldmeyer received the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize for Journalism from the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research in Berlin.
Fonts (selection)
- Difficult homecoming. New settlers on old soil . 2nd expanded edition, Siedler, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88680-615-4 .
- with Georg Meyer: Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg 1906–2006. German patriot - Europeans - Atlanticists . Ed. By the Military History Research Office , Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8132-0876-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Feldmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for Karl Feldmeyer in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Karl Feldmeyer's blog
Individual evidence
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↑ Jasper von Altenbockum : Journalist out of passion - To the death of Karl Feldmeyer . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 21, 2016, page 4.
Gunars Reichenbach's: Obituary: Mourning for incorruptible intellectuals . In: Nordwest-Zeitung , December 22, 2016, accessed on December 24, 2016. - ^ Homepage of the "Alliance for the Rule of Law" , accessed on December 22, 2016.
- ^ Homepage of the “Civil Coalition for Germany” , accessed on December 22, 2016.
- ^ Homepage of the newspaper “Die Freie Welt” , accessed on December 22, 2016.
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↑ Junge Freiheit - Reading What Is Really Important . Video of Junge Freiheit on YouTube , published March 19, 2013, accessed December 22, 2016 (5:18 minutes).
About the publisher . Young Freedom, accessed December 22, 2016. - ↑ Karl Feldmeyer: A reflection on the 50th birthday of the Bundeswehr: "Movable answer" . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2005 . Volume 1, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-9810794-0-X , p. 200.
- ^ Gerhard Löwenthal Prize 2013 for Birgit Kelle and Karl Feldmeyer. Junge Freiheit , November 23, 2013, archived from the original on November 23, 2013 ; accessed on December 22, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feldmeyer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mindelheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2016 |
| Place of death | Berlin |