Klaus von der Brelie

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Klaus von der Brelie (born September 30, 1949 in Celle ; † August 12, 2016 in Großburgwedel ) was a German journalist.

Life

Born in Celle in 1949, Klaus von der Brelie grew up in Jeversen . After attending school, he studied politics, English studies and history at the university there in Hanover and graduated with the qualification of a secondary school teacher. His journalistic career began as a trainee at the Cellesche Zeitung , for which he then worked as an editor until 1977. Subsequently, he moved from Brelie to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) in the Lower Saxony editorial office , where the “ reserve officer out of conviction”, who initially acted as a staunch but later enlightened conservative as a solitary figure, but sometimes also as a stubborn head was perceived.

After an interlude at the Celleschen Zeitung, the journalist with the abbreviation vdB returned to the HAZ in 1983 and took over the management of the Lower Saxony editorial team. By the turn of the century he developed "to an intimate connoisseur of the country, its peculiarities, its people" and soon got to know every mayor and almost all district administrators.

In 1994 von der Brelie joined the Press Club Hannover .

In April 2001, “vdB” switched to the political editorial team of the HAZ - and only a few weeks later received the Karl Winnacker Prize : On May 15 of that year in Dresden , the German Atomic Forum recognized that von der Brelie had “always been factually balanced and well-founded reports on nuclear energy “.

As a political editor, von der Brelie concentrated on German security policy and the Bundeswehr , was soon on the road with German soldiers just as often in Kunduz in Afghanistan as at their military bases between the Ems and Elbe, and was also regarded by federal politicians as a highly respected reporter for the NATO defense alliance .

In December 2012, Klaus von der Brelie paid tribute to his colleague Jochen Mellin , who died in 2009 and with whom he had shared his office in the Lower Saxony editorial office of the HAZ for almost a quarter of a century. In his speech on the occasion of an exhibition of the late photojournalist's works in the KulturWerkStadt in Burgdorf , von der Brelie highlighted Mellin's “fine sense for the subtle nuances in the creation of language as well as an extremely precise ability to observe when taking a photo and writing a text”.

Shortly before his retirement, Klaus von der Brelie was struck by an illness for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, he continued to provide the HAZ with information, wrote articles about his last place of residence, Meitze in Wedemark, and “arranged” several book projects. In addition, shortly before his death, he ran for the local elections in September 2016 as a candidate of the CDU for the local council in Elze / Meitze; the posters for the politician were already printed. But after two years of fighting his illness, Klaus von der Brelie died. After the funeral service in the Stechinelli Chapel in Wieckenberg , he was buried on August 18, 2016 in the cemetery in Meitze.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Oldenburger Münsterland and a relaxing piece of Lower Saxony , in Dieter Brosius et al. : Lower Saxony. Federal state - tribal country , 1st edition, publisher: Lower Saxony State Chancellery, Lower Saxony District Association, Lower Saxony City and Municipal Association, Lower Saxony City Association, Heidelberg: Advertising and Graphics, 1989, ISBN 3-926455-03-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from August 13, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hendrik Brandt: Obituary for Klaus von der Brelie / Ein Niedersachsen von Welt , in: HAZ from August 13, 2016, last accessed on June 29, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c o.V. : Karl Winnacker Prize for Klaus von der Brelie on the kernenergie.de website on May 15, 2001, last accessed on June 29, 2017
  4. ↑ oV : Klaus von der Brelie on the side presse-club-hannover.de [no date], as last accessed on 29 June 2017
  5. ↑ Burkhard Wolters: “A declaration of love to Burgdorf”: Exhibition in KulturWerkStadt pays tribute to Jochen Mellin's life as a reporter on the Altkreis Nachrichten / Nachrichten für Burgdorf, Lehrte and Sehnde website on December 16, 2012, last accessed on June 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brelie, Klaus from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2016
Place of death Großburgwedel