Norbert Matern

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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.

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  1. Warmia Book 2018 , p. 169
  2. Warmia Book 2020 , p. 6