Peter Gillies

Peter Gillies (born May 29, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German business journalist . He was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Welt .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a banker and working in a bank, Peter Gillies studied business administration at the Free University of Berlin from 1962 to 1966 , which he completed with a degree in business administration. He went to the Axel Springer Group and initially volunteered at Die Welt in Hamburg. From 1967 he worked as a business correspondent in Berlin and was head of the office in Bonn. In 1981 he became deputy editor-in-chief and in 1985 editor-in-chief of the world (until 1988). In 1989 he graduated from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with a dissertation on business journalism in transition. Requirement profile and qualification in the transition to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . From 1992 to 1995 he was again editor-in-chief. Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist.

Fonts (selection)

• with Roland Berger : thrust. The new German economic miracle and its makers . Econ Verlag , Düsseldorf u. a. 1994, ISBN 3-612-26079-0 . (License from Ed.Ferenczy from Bruckmann)
• with Daniel Koerfer , Udo Hengst: Ludwig Ehrhard . Be.bra-Verlag Wissenschaft, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937233-65-9 .

Awards

• 1975: Theodor Wolff Prize
• 1981: Josef Humar Prize
• 1983: Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism
• 1987: Federal Cross of Merit
• 1990: Wilhelm von Humboldt Medal
• 1990: Karl Bräuer Prize
• 1996: Informedia Prize for Business Journalism
• 1996: Rudolf von Gneist honorary gift
• 1999: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

literature

• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 43rd edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, ISBN 3-7950-2038-7 , p. 436.
• Ordoliberal in the best sense of the word. Peter Gillies 70 . In: The world . May 29, 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Gillies in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Peter Gillies  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Peter Gillies" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita Peter Gillies ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Future Congress CDU NRW, accessed on April 4, 2014.