Rudolf Dahmen

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Rudolf Dahmen (born April 18, 1917 in Neuwied am Rhein, † January 24, 1989 in Bremerhaven ) was a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung (NZ) Bremerhaven.

Life

Dahmen learned the journalistic trade as a trainee at the Bremer Zeitung . During the Nazi era he was released in 1936 and then he was in the Reich Labor Service and a soldier in World War II . In 1945 Radio Bremen employed him . From 1947 he worked in the editorial department of the Nordsee-Zeitung in Bremerhaven and as a journalist until 1967 in various cities such as Bremen , Bielefeld and Cologne .

From 1967 to 1982 he was editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung and he shaped the style of the daily newspaper . In 1971, Dahmen and owner Joachim Ditzen-Blanke signed long-term technical and editorial cooperation agreements with newspaper publishers in Nordenham , Bremervörde , Zeven , Otterndorf and Cuxhaven as well as with the Stader newspaper publisher ( Stader Tageblatt , Buxtehuder Tageblatt and Altländer Zeitung).

Honors

Dahmen received the Bremerhaven City Medal of Merit in 1982.

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