Norbert Matern
Norbert Matern (born June 20, 1934 in Braunsberg , Warmia ) is a German broadcast journalist and publicist .
Life
Norbert Matern was in 1958 when Max Braubach with a thesis on the political elections in Hildesheim 1848-1867 at the University of Bonn to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1959 to 1970 he was deputy head of the radio and television department in the press and information office of the federal government. From 1970 to 1975 he was the first editor in the editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle and until 1997 headed the main department of education and society at Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1975 Matern joined the PressClub Munich and later became deputy, since 1993 its chairman. He also works as a freelance journalist.
Norbert Matern is involved in various honorary positions, for example as chairman of the presidium of the "House of the German East" in Munich, a subordinate authority of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In 1996 he was appointed chairman of the Catholic Refugee Council in Germany by the German Bishops' Conference , and in 2006 he was confirmed in this honorary position until 2011. From 1967 to 1977 he was honorary editor-in-chief of Academia , the journal of the Cartell Association of German Catholic Student Associations, which has been published since 1888 ; since 1954 he has been a member of the AV Tuisconia (Königsberg, Bonn) zu Landshut in the CV .
The clergyman and university professor Gerhard Matern was his uncle.
Awards
- Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaft East Prussia (1988)
- Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Merit Medal of the Braunsberg District Community (2005)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (2007)
- New Year's Eve order in the "Knight" class (2019)
Fonts
- East Prussia when the bombs fell. Königsberg , Allenstein , Braunsberg , Gumbinnen , Insterburg , Memel , Tilsit . Droste, Düsseldorf 1986 (in the series Photographed Contemporary History ), ISBN 3-7700-0674-7 .
- Munich in the bombing war . Droste, Düsseldorf 1985 (in the series Photographed Contemporary History ), ISBN 3-7700-0637-2 , and other editions (together with Eva Berthold).
- Priests for the world. Bishop Walter Mixa in conversation with Norbert Matern , Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg, 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-929246-43-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Norbert Matern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Norbert Matern (PresseClub Munich)
- Publications by Norbert Matern in the Index theologicus
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Matern, Norbert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunsberg , Warmia |