Kurt Blauhorn

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Kurt Blauhorn (* 1916 in Stargard in Pomerania ; † after 1978) was a German journalist and non-fiction author .

Life

Blauhorn joined the NSDAP in November 1938 and became an SS applicant in July 1939 . During the time of National Socialism he was editor in the political news service of the Pomeranian newspaper . During the Second World War in 1940 he applied as a non-commissioned officer for his transfer from Neustrelitz to a propaganda company (PK) at the front, in order to " experience our victory in the struggle for a global reorganization both as a soldier and as a journalist". He had to wait another two years before he was transferred to the Eastern Front as PK verbal reporter on PK 695 from April 1942 .

From 1945, Blauhorn first worked for the SED central organ Neues Deutschland , before he became editor of the West German news magazine Der Spiegel in the early 1950s and was later promoted to head of the “Inlands-Dienst” department by Rudolf Augstein . In addition, in the 1960s Blauhorn wrote popular business books such as Now America is Buying Us. Dollar colony Germany? and in 1970 wrote a major article for Die Zeit on the spectacular bankruptcy of the financial group Investors Overseas Services (IOS).

In the 1970s, Blauhorn switched to Hamburger Illustrierte stern . There he worked in the business department. On December 22nd, 1977, his report appeared in stern as the cover story ( ... and tomorrow the whole world ) about Germany's empires and their foreign investments, which he saw primarily as tax evasion . Even the Bertelsmann owner and stern co-owner Reinhard Mohn was mentioned, he had invested his money abroad and partly in fascist dictatorships. The article caused a sensation in West Germany, caused outrage among entrepreneurs and ultimately led to the dismissal of the responsible deputy editor-in-chief Manfred Bissinger at Mohn's instigation .

Blauhorn was married and had several children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sale in Germany? Moderne verlags gmbh, Munich 1966
  • America is buying us now. Dollar colony Germany? Heyne, Munich 1968
  • Second class continent? Europe's technological gap. With an interview with Klaus von Dohnanyi . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1970

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lutz Hachmeister : Heidegger's Testament. The philosopher, the mirror and the SS. Propylaea, Berlin 2014, p. 114f.
  2. ↑ In 1964, Blauhorn had already been with Spiegel for ten years , as the news magazine reports in: Re .: Church tax of May 25, 1964, ... "Kurt Blauhorn, 47, after ten years of service at Spiegel" ...
  3. ↑ a b Peter-Ferdinand Koch: Unmasked. Double agents: names, facts, evidence. Ecowin, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7110-0008-8 .
  4. ↑ Kurt Blauhorn: IOS - the scandal of the year: "Every company has a madman". ( Memento of March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Die Zeit , December 25, 1970.
  5. ↑ Thomas Schuler : How Mohn wants to buy Springer - and fails on the star. In: ders., Die Mohns. From provincial bookseller to global corporation: the family behind Bertelsmann. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2004, ISBN 3-593-37307-6 , pp. 190-194, online text in Google books .
  6. ↑ Willi Winkler : Manfred Bissinger turns 70 - with the story of the disclosure of the FDP. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ Instead of a foreword. Manfred Bissinger in conversation with Roger Willemsen . In: Lauter Widerworte , ISBN 978-3-455-50206-0 , pp. 11-28.
  8. ^ Re: church tax. In: Der Spiegel , May 25, 1964.
personal data
SURNAME Blauhorn, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH after 1978