Peter Galliner

Stumbling stone in front of the house, Martin-Luther-Strasse 12, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Stumbling stone in front of the house, Martin-Luther-Strasse 12, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Peter Galliner (born September 19, 1920 in Berlin , † December 19, 2006 in Berlin) was a German journalist and publicist.

Life

As the son of the lawyer and member of the Jewish Reform Congregation Dr. Moritz Galliner and his wife Hedwig Isaac grew up in Berlin, only to flee to Great Britain from the Nazi regime . His parents committed suicide in 1942 when they were threatened with deportation.

He worked for the Reuters agency in London from 1944 to 1947. He was active in the Financial Times' international service from 1947 to 1960. The publisher Axel Springer brought him to Berlin in 1960, where he was appointed CEO of Ullstein Verlag . In 1964 he returned to London, where he worked from 1965 as Vice President and Management Director of the British Printing Corporation Publishing Group until 1970. From 1970 to 1975 he was an international publishing consultant. He has held the position of Chairman of Peter Galliner Associates in London since 1970.

He was appointed to the International Press Institute in 1975 and headed this institution as director until 1993, where he gained international recognition for the defense of press freedom. In the following years he organized international conferences with the company International Encounter on questions of the press media in the context of democracy and the associated conflicts in social and ethnic issues.

Galliner was a founding member of the European Journalist Fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and a regular participant in the Bergedorf Round Table of the Körber Foundation . He also supported “ placet - Plastic and Surgical Center for Victims of Terrorism ” in Berlin.

He was married to Edith Goldschmidt from 1948, from whom he divorced in 1985. In 1990 he married Helga Stenschke in his second marriage. Most recently he lived in London, 27 Walsingham, St. Johns Wood Park.

The burial took place in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee on December 22, 2006. He leaves behind a daughter Nicola from his first marriage and grandson Aaron, who both live in Berlin.

Functions

• Director of the International Press Institute
• Member of Advisory Board, European Institute for the Media, Düsseldorf
• Member of the International Advisory Board, MTV (Magyar Televizió - Hungarian Radio and Television Corp.), Budapest
• Board Member, Inter-Press Service, Rome
• Founding Advisory Board of the European Journalist Fellowships
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board, University of Sussex
• Director of International Encounters, Berlin

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1961)
• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with star and shoulder ribbon (1980)
• Encomienda Orden de Isabelle la Catolica , Spain (1982)
• European Media Prize / Award for Cultural Communication (1998)

Fonts

• Report on Hungarian General Election , European Media Institute, 1994
• Monitoring Report on the situation with regard to the present practices related to the free movement of journalists in Russia , UNESCO
• Responses to the decision . In: The Journal of Communication , 34 (4), pp. 168-168
• New Threats in the Democracies . In: World Press Review , 36, February 1989, pp. 52-57.

literature

• Simone Ladwig-Winters, Peter Galliner (ed.): Freedom and bond. On the history of the Jewish reform community in Berlin from its beginnings to its end in 1939 . Hentrich & Hentrich, 2003, ISBN 3-933471-65-6
• Powerful voice of freedom of the press . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 19, 2000; for the 80th birthday