Robert Leicht (journalist)

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Robert Leicht (born August 10, 1944 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Career

Leicht comes from a brewing family, his great-grandfather of the same name Robert Leicht was the founder of Schwabenbräu in Stuttgart- Vaihingen .

From 1954 to 1963 he was a student at the Schloss Salem boarding school and studied law in Berlin and Saarbrücken, from 1967 to 1970 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 1970 to 1985 he wrote leading articles for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and became head of the domestic affairs department. In 1986 he became Head of Politics and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1992 to August 31, 1997 he was editor-in-chief of the time . Since then he has been the political correspondent of Die Zeit and a columnist for the Berliner Tagesspiegel .

From 1997 to 2003 Leicht was a council member of the EKD and from 2003 to 2009 a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany . From 1999 to 2009 he was President of the Evangelical Academy in Berlin and teaches as an honorary professor for public communication and current politics at the University of Erfurt .

In June 2010 Leicht was elected as the new chairman of the board of the boarding school Schloss Salem in Frankfurt am Main . The new election of the committee had become necessary because the association's board resigned on April 17, 2010 after the failed appointment to the head of school. In addition, Robert Leicht is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hamburg Community Foundation and the Atlantik-Brücke .

Positions

In February 1990 Leicht spoke out against a new constitution for a reunified Germany. Instead, the GDR should simply declare its accession to the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law .

In connection with an honor killing trial, Leicht argued in 2006 that in criminal law “only those who can be personally proven to have committed an act beyond all reasonable doubt ” are to be punished, but with regard to the right of residence, the burden of proof lies with a foreigner, Knows the laws of the country, wants to respect and will respect them in the future ”. Leicht demanded that a discretionary expulsion be made easier "if, through facts, foreigners offer serious indications that they roughly or permanently refuse to be included in public policy ."

In 2013, Leicht spoke out in favor of interviewing Edward Snowden in Russia. Asylum in Germany should not be granted because Snowden is not being politically persecuted; To grant him a right of residence is not in the German interest.

In 2014, Leicht sharply criticized the former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher for statements on the Ukraine conflict. Genscher had questioned the sense of sanctions and asked for understanding for the Russian position.

Honors

In 1976 Leicht was awarded the Karl Hermann Flach Prize for his journalistic services , the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1981 and the Hans Ehrenberg Prize in 2004 . He is an honorary doctor of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Works

  • In truth free - Protestant profiles and positions. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148929-2 .
  • Whoever believes it will be blessed - interference at the moment. Herder, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-451-05328-4 .
  • You are the salt of the earth - 2000 years of Christians in contradiction. Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-579-01322-X .
  • Departure for political reason - the challenge of German parliamentarism. Hanser, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-446-13800-5 .
  • Basic Law and Political Practice - Parliamentarism in the Federal Republic. Hanser. Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11869-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Evangelical Academy in Berlin ( Memento from May 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Salem. Publicist at the head of the boarding school . In: Südkurier of June 21, 2010
  3. ↑ Committees of the Hamburg Community Foundation . (Retrieved December 8, 2011.)
  4. ↑ Journalists - loyally connected to the Atlantikbrücke http://spiegelkabinett-blog.blogspot.de/2013/03/journalisten-der-atlantikbrucke-in.html ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Unity by joining in: DIE ZEIT 09/1990
  6. ↑ Request to leave the country in: DIE ZEIT 17/2006
  7. ↑ Edward Snowden should be interviewed in Moscow Time Online
  8. ^ Genscher's enigmatic Putin encouragement Zeit Online
  9. ^ Genscher: Agreement with Russia necessary Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Online
  10. ^ Vita ( memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Hans Ehrenberg Society, viewed April 28, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Easy, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)