Robert Strobel
Robert Strobel (* 1898 in Mährisch-Ostrau ; † November 17, 1994 in Bonn ) was a German journalist and legal scholar. He was the founding chairman of the German Press Club .
Life
After completing his law studies with a doctorate, Strobel worked from 1926 for the Tagesbote in Brno, later for Europa-press in Frankfurt and Interradio in Graz. As a "politically unencumbered" journalist, he was able to work as a correspondent for Die Zeit , the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and other daily newspapers soon after the war . His main interest, however, was always the unofficial rounds of talks, in which the so-called capital city journalists were given the opportunity to obtain information that went beyond the official announcements of the federal press conference. He also wrote the only existing report on the first tea talk at Adenauer , with which the then Chancellor started a long tradition of providing hand-picked media representatives with exclusive background information. To clarify the need for background information: the content of these tea conversations comprised four volumes at the end.
In order to give the political journalists accredited in the provisional federal capital Bonn their own meeting point for background discussions, he founded the German Press Club in 1951 together with 22 other Bonn correspondents, which was registered as an association a year later. Robert Strobel was also its first chairman until the end of the financial year 1953, when he resigned from this office at his own request because the simultaneous journalistic work for several daily newspapers overwhelmed him. The press club found a worthy successor in Alfred Rapp for the next twelve years.
In 1968 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1988 for his services to the German press, on the recommendation of the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Johannes Rau, the Great Cross of Merit with a Star. He kept in constant contact with the German Press Club well into old age.
literature
- Robert Strobel: Adenauer and the way Germany . Lucerne 1965.
- Heinz Murmann : With 'C' it's finer. The German Press Club Bonn from 1952 until today . Bouvier, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02713-2 .
Web links
- zeit.de: Link to 245 of his articles
- Die Zeit , 39/1968: Thanks to Robert Strobel (on his retirement)
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of all tea conversations since April 20, 1950, PDF file
- ^ Tea talks (1950–1963) in the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strobel, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moravian-Ostrava |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1994 |
| Place of death | Bonn |