Theo Mönch-Tegeder

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Theo Mönch-Tegeder (born January 9, 1953 in Rheine ; † May 13, 2018 in Osnabrück .) Was a German journalist, publisher and media manager.

Life

Theo Mönch-Tegeder, who comes from an Emsland farming family in Listrup, was a volunteer at the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from 1978 to 1984 . In 1984 he moved to Rheinischer Merkur , where he was the business editor and head of the parliamentary editorial office. In 1996 he became the responsible political editor at the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.

Theo Mönch-Tegeder has been managing director of the diocese press group since 2003 , an association of five publishers that publish church newspapers for eleven German dioceses , based in Osnabrück . He was also the managing director of Dom Medien GmbH , Verlag Bistumspresse GmbH and Dom Buchhandlung GmbH in Osnabrück.

On September 1, 2013 he was elected by the KNA supervisory board and shareholders' meeting as managing director of the Catholic news agency based in Bonn and managing director of the Catholic media company ; he succeeded Thomas Juncker . He also took over the management of the KNA subsidiary dreipunktdrei mediengesellschaft mbH and was also the managing director of the KNA Promedia Foundation , a funding initiative for young Catholic journalists.

He was involved in numerous honorary posts, including at Catholic adult education, the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) (member of the supervisory board) and the Ludwig Windthorst Foundation (member of the board) as well as in the Emsland Heimatbund, which regularly contributes to its yearbook. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Pontifical Foundation Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) in the Vatican.

He was a member of the CDU and ran for the council of the city of Osnabrück in 2011.

Mönch-Tegeder was married and had four children. He was a nephew of Maria Mönch-Tegeder .

Mönch-Tegeder died unexpectedly in Osnabrück on May 13, 2018.

Publications

  • Maria Mönch-Tegeder : Works in three volumes . Editor Theo Mönch-Tegeder
    • Vol. 1. Wi stickt nu de Kerßen: Klaostiet un Wiehnachten in't Emsland; Vertellsels, Döönkes un ock wat to't Naohhaben. Verlag des Emsländischen Heimatbundes, Sögel, 2000, ISBN 3-88077-138-3
    • Vol. 2. Emsland-Romane: Plattdütske Romräse. Imme. Land of God's throne. Verlag des Emsländischen Heimatbundes, Sögel, 2001, ISBN 3-88077-139-1
    • Vol. 3. Emsland-Vertellsels: 100 Döönkes un Riemsels. Publishing house of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, Sögel, 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Theo Mönch-Tegeder , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, May 16, 2018
  2. ^ Catholic news agency: Theo Mönch-Tegeder takes over management . Newsroom, June 24, 2013
  3. KNA managing director Theo Mönch-Tegeder has died . kathisch.de, May 14, 2018