Manfred von Thien

Manfred von Thien (* 1955 ) is a German journalist . He was the “agent of the publisher” for the Madsack media group .

Life

Manfred von Thien studied law and psychology . He volunteered at the Axel Springer AG belonging Hamburger Abendblatt and headed the city desk . He was editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Morgenpost and from October 1996 as the successor to Wolfgang Kryszohn of the Berlin tabloid B.Z. published by Ullstein Verlag , a Springer subsidiary. In June 1998 he was replaced by Franz Josef Wagner . Von Thien tried to save the shrinking BZ circulation with the "panacea sex".

Von Thien was temporarily employed as "Editor-in-Chief for Special Tasks" at Axel Springer Verlag. On January 1, 1999, he joined the Lübecker Nachrichten , at that time a 49 percent subsidiary of Springer, succeeding Thomas Lubowski as editor-in-chief. In 2006 Ulrich Exner , whom von Thien had brought in as one of his deputies from the Hamburger Morgenpost to the Lübecker Nachrichten, became his successor. On April 1, 2006, von Thien took over the editor-in-chief of the Ostsee-Zeitung (OZ) in Rostock , a subsidiary of Axel Springer AG and Lübecker Nachrichten GmbH that was shared in equal parts. His predecessor Gerhard (Gerd) Spilker, who had been since 1990 OZ's chief editor, had the Rostock publisher must leave the end of 2005 after the Springer newspaper Die Welt had reported Spilker was 1967-1980 Stasi - IN been.

In 2008 von Thien returned to Lübeck; in Rostock, Jan Emendörfer became editor-in-chief. In Lübeck von Thien was appointed editorial director of the Redaktions-Service-Gesellschaft (RSG), an editorial company founded as a joint subsidiary of the publishers Lübecker Nachrichten and Ostsee-Zeitung. Editors of both the Lübecker Nachrichten and the Ostsee-Zeitung were transferred to this company in order to produce joint cover and service pages for both newspapers. The RSG was supposed to start its work in April 2008, but did not start until July 2008. In February 2009, von Thien took over as editor-in-chief of the Lübecker Nachrichten in addition to his function as RSG editorial director. He replaced Ulrich Exner, who became deputy editor-in-chief of the Berliner Morgenpost . In March 2011, von Thien became the “agent of the publisher” for the Madsack media group. His job was to coordinate the cooperation between the group's 17 daily newspapers. Von Thien resigned from this position in July 2013 at his own request and is now a consultant at Madsack.

Since 2016 he has been working as a freelance consultant for publishers, managing directors and editors-in-chief as well as a trainer for editorial offices.

Von Thien is married and lives in Hamburg and Ibiza .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winfried Konrad: How the "Berliner Zeitung" wants to win the West and keep the East In: Die Zeit , 1997
2. ↑ Oliver Gehrs: On the edge of the catastrophe - Franz Josef Wagner's assumption of office at the "BZ" In: Berliner Zeitung of June 26, 2008
3. ^ Professional stations of Manfred von Thiens in a press release of the BDZV from January 20, 1999
4. ↑ Florian Gathmann: Big stage, deep fall In: "Der Spiegel online", April 5, 2008
5. ↑ Andreas Förster: Stasigate am Ostseestrand In: "Berliner Zeitung" of November 12, 2005
6. ↑ "People make media online" at ver.di from May 15, 2008
7. ↑ Notification of the BDZV dated December 16, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten has a new editor-in-chief ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: ln-online.de from January 28, 2011
9. ↑ Gerald Goetsch new LN editor-in-chief - Manfred von Thien is the editorial coordinator of the Madsack media group. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of January 29, 2011, p. 8