Otto B. Roegele
Otto Bernhard Roegele (born August 6, 1920 in Heidelberg ; † September 6, 2005 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German journalist and communication scientist .
Life
Roegele was born in Heidelberg in 1920 and attended the Bruchsal Castle High School. Here he became a member of the Catholic "Bruchsal Group" in 1932; 1933 member of the Federal New Germany (ND) . During this time there were repeated clashes with the Gestapo, which ended with the arrest of members in 1939 and the ban. From 1938 he studied philosophy, history and medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and continued in Heidelberg, Erlangen and Strasbourg. In 1945 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and a doctorate in medicine in Munich. Roegele was a member of the KV .
At first Roegele worked as a doctor in Heidelberg and Mannheim after the war, but at the same time he started a career as a journalist at Rheinischer Merkur , which was founded in 1948. In 1949 he took over the editor-in-chief there. From 1963 until his death he remained one of the editors of this weekly newspaper. In 1972, together with other Catholics, he founded the bimonthly magazine "Communio", of which he was co-editor.
In 1963 Roegele was appointed to the newly founded chair for newspaper science in Munich , which was connected with the management of the "Institute for newspaper science". Since 1974 he has been dean of the social science faculty at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1985 Roegele retired .
In 1968 Roegele was one of the initiators for the establishment of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) in Munich, the journalism school of the German bishops. He was also involved in the German UNESCO Commission and was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) . Roegele was an advisor to the journalistic commission of the German Bishops' Conference . From 1957 to 1963 and from 1969 to 1972 he was chairman of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany .
In 2000 he was appointed Commander Knight of the Order of Gregory by Pope John Paul II because of his services to Catholic journalism . In 2000, the "Otto B. Roegele Foundation" was established to promote research projects in the field of communication.
Fonts
- Otto B. Roegele: Bruchsal as it was. City history and image documentation . Verlag G.Braun, Karlsruhe 1975, ISBN 3-7650-8020-9
- Otto B. Roegele: Plea for journalistic responsibility . UVK Medien Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-89669-301-8 .
literature
- Erhard Schreiber / Wolfgang R. Langenbucher / and Walter Hömberg (eds.): Communication in the changing world: Otto B. Roegele on his 60th birthday , Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-7700-4035-X .
- Karl-Joseph Hummel : Otto B. Roegele. In: Contemporary history in life pictures. Volume 12, Münster 2007, pp. 201-213.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto B. Roegele in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Otto B. Roegele in the German Digital Library
- "The Catholic youth group New Germany in Bruchsal" in the parish newspaper of the parish churches St. Anton, St. Paul and St. Peter in Bruchsal, p. 4 ff. (PDF file; 1.92 MB) ( Memento from December 26, 2004 on the Internet Archives )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roegele, Otto B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roegele, Otto Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and communication scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2005 |
| Place of death | Bergisch Gladbach |