Martin Lohmann

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Martin Lohmann (2017)

Martin Lohmann (born March 14, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German Roman Catholic publicist and journalist .

Life

education

After graduating from high school in 1976, Lohmann studied history , Catholic theology , philosophy and educational science at the Jesuit Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1983 he passed the exams in history and theology. As a student he was in the history seminar with Konrad Repgen and in the Association for Research into Modern History e. V. active in Bonn.

Professional activities

From 1983 to 1987 Martin Lohmann was deputy federal manager of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU). In 1987 he joined the editorial team of Rheinischer Merkurs and later became department head of Christ und Welt . From 1994 to 1997 he was deputy editor-in-chief there . From 1998 to 2004 he was editor-in-chief of the Rhein-Zeitung , from 1996 to 2002 he was the presenter of the Münchner Runde , a live political talk show on Bavarian Radio . In 2002 he founded the Joseph Höffner Society together with Lothar Roos and was its 2nd chairman until 2010. He has been working as a freelance journalist since 2005. He has been a columnist at Bild since 2007 .

As of 2006, he was a lecturer in media ethics at the Macromedia University of the Media in Cologne. In February 2013, the university declared that it would no longer employ Lohmann as a lecturer after controversial statements on homosexuality and abortion (see below). He finished his work on the university's voluntary board of trustees himself.

In July 2010 Lohmann took over the publishing management of JP Bachem Verlag in Cologne. On October 1, 2012, he became editor-in-chief of the private Catholic television station K-TV . This contractual relationship was terminated at the end of 2014 and the station's editorial team was dissolved. Lohmann is also on the editorial board of the magazine Die Neueordnung . From September 2009 to April 2017 he was the federal chairman of the Federal Association for the Law of Life .

Party membership

Lohmann had been a CDU member since 1972 .

Lohmann was the spokesman for the working group of committed Catholics in the CDU (AEK) founded on November 15, 2009, and in spring 2010 he joined the " Stop the Left Trend Action " as the first signatory of the manifesto against the left trend .

On September 19, 2013, he announced his resignation from the CDU. As the reason for this step, he stated that "almost all of the essential key points that make up the 'C' with its unique challenge" have "been neglected or factually undermined by the party leadership of the CDU" in recent years " be. The CDU's power politics would be at the expense of content.

Positions and public appearances

Lohmann is an opponent of abortions . In the talk show Günther Jauch on February 3, 2013, which was about Catholic hospitals that did not want to prescribe a morning-after pill for a rape victim, he also took the view that the so-called morning-after pill was not allowed in the case of rape according to the Catholic view; Only a pill is permitted, which only prevents fertilization, but leaves an already fertilized egg intact. To self-determination of women in this question he said the "matter of the self-determination of women" was because he was "so complex" next to the mother and the embryo or fetus regard as living people. When asked whether this also applies to a rape of his own daughter, he said that he would help her "to come to terms with her fate". In an interview with Focus a few days later, Lohmann affirmed that the statements in the panel were “correct and absolutely Catholic”, but self-critically expressed that he had “understanding for others, especially when they are in need” more clearly should show. He described Jauch's question about his daughter as "overbearing", she was "a more than marginal invasion of privacy".

In December 2012 Lohmann was a guest on the ARD show Hart but fair . In the discussion he defended the “Christian marriage ” and justified his rejection of “lived homosexuality ”, the introduction of so-called gay marriage and the full right of adoption for registered civil partnerships . On December 12, 2012, an anonymous e-mail threatened to infect him with the HIV virus , whereupon he filed a complaint against unknown persons.

Private

Martin Lohmann is married and has one daughter.

Lohmann is committed to numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 2001 he was the Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and appointed on May 12, 2001 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Munster by Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy, the Order invested . He is a member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

Lohmann has been involved in various Rotary clubs since 1996 and was a member of the Rotary Club Bornheim until 2013.

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Maximum. How the Pope changed Germany , Gütersloh (GVH) 2007
  • Fraudulent family policy. An interjection for more civil liberty and the end of paternalism , Gütersloh (GVH) 2008
  • The cross with the C. How Christian is the Union? , Kevelaer (Butzon and Bercker) 2009
  • String of pearls and rosary , Kevelaer (Patris) 2009
  • Together with Georg Gänswein : Catholic. First-hand knowledge , Rheinbach (CMZ) / Freiburg (Herder) 2010
  • Quite simply holy - Cesar Ortiz talks about his holy friend Josemaría Escrivá , Kißlegg (Christiana) 2014
  • Man Marx. The cardinal in portrait. A biography of Archbishop Reinhard Marx . , Herder Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-31266-3 . (Updated and expanded new edition; the first edition appeared in 2008)
  • Georg Michael Wittmann . Bishop, pastor and reformer , Regensburg: Pustet 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-3038-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release : Statement by the university on the media debate about Martin Lohmann , on: MHMK homepage (press room) from February 13, 2013
  2. ↑ KNA : Martin Lohmann new publishing director at Bachem , on: kath.net from July 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ Martin Lohmann switches to Catholic television ( memento of October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), message on the homepage of the station K-TV , accessed on October 11, 2012 (offline)
  4. ↑ Imprint of the journal Die Neueordnung
  5. ↑ Bundesverband Lebensrecht: Alexandra Linder follows Martin Lohmann ( memento from July 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), ead.de, article from April 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Harry Luck (interview with Martin Lohmann) "The C is the middle" , in: Focus from January 22, 2010.
  7. ↑ Catholics in the Union found a working group , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from November 17, 2009
  8. ↑ Gerd Langguth: Disturbing fire in the Union: Fundi-Catholics want to annoy Merkel further , in: Spiegel online February 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ Martin Lohmann resigns from the CDU , kath.net , September 19, 2013
  10. ↑ Martin Lohmann resigns from the CDU on kath.net, September 19, 2013
  11. ↑ Peter Kapern (interview): Merkel has "operated out the content backbone" for the CDU , on: DRadio from September 20, 2013.
  12. ↑ Biographical data from personal website ( PDF ).
  13. ↑ a b Nina Paulsen: Katholiken-TV boss is laughed at by Jauch , in: Die Welt from February 4, 2013
  14. ^ Mark Stöhr: TV review on Günther Jauch | Nobody needs this church , in: Stern from February 4, 2013
  15. ↑ The Shitstorm interview with Martin Lohmann . On: Merkur-online.de , February 7, 2013.
  16. ↑ : Martin Lohmann outraged millions of women , in: Hamburger Morgenpost from February 4, 2013
  17. ↑ Christoph Pagel: TV theologian found Jauch's approach to be "overreaching" , in: Focus from February 5, 2013 (accessed on February 7, 2013)
  18. ↑ a b c Editor-in-chief Martin Lohmann threatened ( memento from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), K-TV (television) from December 13, 2012
  19. ↑ Papa, Papa, Child: Gay marriage without borders ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on: WDR-Mediathek from December 3, 2012
  20. ^ Hate attack on journalist Lohmann | Aids threat after the TV show "Hart aber fair" , in: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from December 12, 2012
  21. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  22. ↑ Rotary Magazin Authors: Martin Lohmann , accessed on August 27, 2014, last accessed on July 9, 2015.
  23. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lohmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn