Peter Pechel

Peter Eberhard Pechel (born April 21, 1920 in Berlin ; † January 30, 1997 there ) was a German journalist and presenter .

Life

Pechel was born the son of Rudolf Pechel , editor-in-chief and publisher of the Deutsche Rundschau , and his wife. Peter Pechel attended the Arndt Gymnasium in Dahlem and was then drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was u. a. Ordinance officer in the Army High Command . His last rank was Captain of the Reserve. His father was a resistance fighter against the Nazis and prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , from which he carried him face meeting at Gestapo boss Heinrich Müller freely received.

After the Second World War, he studied economics , law and newspaper studies at the universities of Göttingen , Munich and Zurich. In 1950 he was at William Bickel at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Zurich with a thesis on the income tax in federal revenue sharing to Dr. oec. publ. PhD.

After initially working as a freelance journalist (print and radio), he joined Südwestfunk in 1950 . From 1954 to 1959 he worked as a foreign correspondent in London for radio ( Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), Südwestfunk, Radio Bremen ) and Ullstein Verlag . From 1960 to 1966 he was ARD correspondent ( Bayerischer Rundfunk , SFB, Hessischer Rundfunk , Radio Bremen) in Washington, DC In 1966 he became editor- in- chief at the SFB and created numerous innovations in radio and television for the SFB - such as the east-west show Kontraste and the television press conference, both of which he hosted. From 1981 he worked as a freelance journalist again. The focus of his work has always been on German-American relations.

From 1963 he was co-editor of the Deutsche Rundschau ; it was discontinued in 1964.

Pechel was u. a. Deputy Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke and member of the German Association of Journalists . From 1981 to 1994 he was deputy chairman of Care Germany , an aid organization.

He was married and the father of two children.

Awards

• Iron Cross 1st Class (1939)
• 1971: Federal Cross of Merit
• 1976: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1980: Jakob Kaiser Prize
• 1986: Large Federal Cross of Merit

Fonts (selection)

• Götterdämmerung of the American arms industry (= To think about . 19). Hessian State Center for Political Education , Wiesbaden 1966.
• with Johannes Steinhoff , Dennis Showalter : Voices from the Third Reich: an oral history . Regnery, Washington, DC 1989, ISBN 0-89526-766-7 .

literature

• Peter Pechel , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1982 from January 4, 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 33rd edition, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1994, ISBN 3-7950-2015-8 , p. 1009.
• Vera Derschum et al .: The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 793.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7: Menghin - Pötel . 2nd edition, KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 713.

Web links

• Pechel, Peter (1920–1997) in the Kalliope union catalog
• Peter Pechel at an appearance in the Blauer Bock