Nikolas Benckiser
Nikolas Benckiser (born October 30, 1903 in Sinzheim , Baden, † October 12, 1987 in Fremersberg ) was a German journalist and publicist. He was co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) .
Career
Benckiser was born the son of a winemaker. He attended the humanistic high school in Karlsruhe. After training in a bank, he began studying art history and law, but soon turned to economics. Benckiser studied at the universities in Munich and Vienna. At the University of Freiburg he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. After traveling and abroad, he applied to the Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ). From 1928 to 1933 he was the city correspondent in London, 1933 to 1939 a correspondent based in Rome and from 1939 to 1944 the FC correspondent for the whole of southern Europe based in Budapest. In 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo .
After the war he resumed his journalistic activities in Vienna. From 1949 he was a correspondent for the German newspaper and business newspaper in Paris. In 1957 he switched to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt am Main as a foreign policy editor . In 1966 he was appointed co-editor of the FAZ until his retirement in 1974.
Fonts
As an author:
- Textile country and textile people. Impressions from a trip through Lancashire and Yorkshire (reprint from the Frankfurter Zeitung), Societäts-Druckerei , Frankfurt am Main, 1930
- Days like sisters , servants, Frankfurt am Main, 1958
- Gardening out of love , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main, 1960
- Love of trees , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main, 1961
- Longing for the Country , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main, 1963
- Dance with the cello , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main, 1966
- Good world, you walk so quietly , Knecht, Frankfurt am Main, 1970
As editor:
- Opinions from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on good and bad German . Four volumes, Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1961ff.
- German landscapes . Three volumes, Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1972
literature
- Beate Bohn: You edit and write the Frankfurter Allgemeine, newspaper for Germany. - Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Allgemeine, 1980
Honors
- 1975: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolas Benckiser in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benckiser, Nikolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, publicist and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sinzheim , Baden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1987 |
| Place of death | Fremersberg |