Siegfried Pabst

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Siegfried Pabst at the award of the Federal Cross of Merit

Siegfried Pabst (born December 14, 1944 in Weingarten (Baden) ) is a German entrepreneur and publisher.

Life and work

Siegfried Pabst completed his schooling in 1964 with the Abitur. From 1964 to 1969 he studied economics at the University of Heidelberg . In the early 1970s he worked for Karlsruhe Life Insurance . From 1972 to 1983 he was head of the planning staff, then the political department of the FDP and head of the planning and policy department (also press spokesman) of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Since 1984 he has been the publishing director, since 1997 managing partner of Universum Verlag in Wiesbaden. Since 2010 Pabst has been chairman of the supervisory board of Universum Kommunikation und Medien AG, Berlin. In 2006 he founded Pabst Media Beteiligungs GmbH. With this he is a partner of the Cicero Society for Advertising and Communication mbH in Wiesbaden and publisher of VivArt, magazine for culture and lifestyle.

Siegfried Pabst's numerous activities include (1987) the establishment of the non-profit “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugend und Bildung eV”, which consists of education experts from the state ministries of education and the European Parliament. She sees her goal in providing schools with advertising-free and nonetheless free information material to supplement and enrich the lessons.

In 2005 Siegfried Pabst founded the “Foundation for Youth and Education”. Its purpose is to promote the education and upbringing of the youth. The foundation wants to initiate and implement projects that promote the existing diversity of school initiatives, exchange, competition and their quality and dissemination.

Siegfried Pabst has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Association for Safety, Health and Environmental Protection at Work since 2005 and has been its chairman since 2008, expressing his further concern for prevention and health.

There are also other voluntary activities in the media sector. From 2007 to 2011, Siegfried Pabst was a member of the board of the Southwest German Magazine Publishers Association. He is also deputy chairman of the program advisory board of Radio RPR / bigFM .

Siegfried Pabst has three children.

Social Commitment

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Association of German Safety Engineers (VDSI)
  • Deputy Chairman of the Program Advisory Board for Radio RPR1 / Big FM
  • Founder of the Youth and Education Foundation
  • since 1984 volunteer work for the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugend und Bildung eV, there
  • Publication of school materials and publications on economic, social and political education
  • Organization of seminars and meetings
  • Editor of the book series "Future of Work - Work of the Future", which accompanies the discussions about the development of the world of work and the labor market

Political commitment

  • since May 1967 member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP)
  • Offices as district executive, delegate to district, state and federal party conferences
  • Participation in numerous specialist committees, strategy and program commissions
  • Candidates for the German Bundestag in 1983 and 1987 in the constituency of Schwarzwald-Baar, and for the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg in 1984 in the constituency of Villingen-Schwenningen
  • Many years of - also voluntary - activity in political education with the German Young Democrats, the FDP, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Honors

On July 10, 2012, Siegfried Pabst was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his decades-long commitment to education.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Justice, for Integration and Europe, July 10, 2012, (press release) (PDF; 29 kB)
  2. ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt of July 11, 2012, (Wiesbadener Tagblatt)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de  
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of July 11, 2012, (Frankfurter Rundschau)
personal data
SURNAME Pabst, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Weingarten (Baden)