Paul W. Limbach

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Paul W. Limbach (born September 14, 1933 in Bonn ; † spring 2012 ) was an investigative journalist who worked as an editor for the magazines Quick and Focus . He died after a short illness in spring 2012.

Career

Paul W. Limbach was Catholic , single and graduated from the Academy for Journalism in Aachen . From 1959 to 1963 he was a correspondent for the Revue in Bonn . From 1963 until it was hired in 1992, he headed the editorial team at Quick in Bonn. After the failed no-confidence vote against Willy Brandt on April 27, 1972 , Julius Steiner revealed himself to Limbach, which led to the appropriate parliamentary committee of inquiry. From 1992 he was the diplomatic correspondent for Playboy . From 1987 to 1992 he was a correspondent for Esquire . From 1992 to 2004 he was the publishing representative of the Bauer Media Group . His symbiotic way of working with the Federal Intelligence Service is sometimes seen as contrary to an ethos of journalism . On July 14, 1972, the tax investigators found photocopies of secret government files, documents from the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Criminal Police Office in Limbach's apartment. In 1987 he was decorated with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, in 1992 with the Federal Cross of Merit , First Class and on July 29, 2010 with the Bavarian Order of Merit . Paul Limbach had acquired interception logs of the HA III (radio intelligence) from former employees of the Ministry for State Security , which the Federal Prosecutor's Office confiscated in 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Hugo Pruys, Helmut Kohl, Edition q, 1995, 572 p., P. 113
  2. ↑ Norbert Beleke, Karin Di Felice, Who is who ?. Das Deutsche who's who, Arani, 2006, p. 827
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel , August 28, 1972, Just got there
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel , September 4, 1972, My boy, whether that's right
  5. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy , Oktoberfest - Das Assentat: How the repression of right-wing terror began, p. 124
  6. ↑ J. Von Staudinger, Thomas Vormbaum, Yearbook Der Juristische Zeitgeschichte Volume 11 (2010) 2010, p. 124
personal data
SURNAME Limbach, Paul W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 2012