Roswin Finkenzeller

Roswin Finkenzeller (born August 14, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German journalist. In Munich he was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and commentator for Bavarian Broadcasting .

Life

Finkenzeller was born in Berlin in 1934 as the son of Bavarian parents from Munich. At the age of nine he lived as an evacuated child in Bavaria . He did his Abitur in Frankfurt am Main . He then studied history and German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He wrote his doctoral thesis on Leopold von Ranke with Otto Vossler and was awarded a doctorate in 1962. phil. PhD. After a traineeship at the Bavarian subscription newspaper Münchner Merkur , he wrote in the domestic affairs department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

From July 1, 1969 to August 2001, Finkenzeller was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich with the preferred topics Christian-Social Union in Bavaria , Bavarian State Government and Bavarian State Parliament , Land and People in Bavaria, criminal trials and chess , his hobby. His chess column in the FAZ is famous.

Works

• With Wilhelm Ziehr and Emil M. Bührer: SCHACH. 2000 years of game history . AT Verlag, Aarau / Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-85502-368-9

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (February 27, 1998)
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Bavarian Constitutional Medal
• Media Prize of the German Chess Federation (1998)
• In 2001, along with five other publicists, he received the VDP Trophy “Origin Germany” award .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roswin Finkenzeller in the catalog of the German National Library
• (Bayern SPD) Nobody shoots into the empty goal by Roswin Finkenzeller ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albert Schäffer: Roswin Finkenzeller 80 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 14, 2014, p. 4.
2. ↑ Dissertation: The representation of the age of the wars of religion in Ranke .
3. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office