Bavarian Association of Journalists

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Bavarian Journalists' Association
(BJV)
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founding February 2, 1946
Seat Munich
purpose Professional association, trade union
Chair Michael Busch
Managing directors Dennis Amour
Members 7407 (April 2017)
Website http://www.bjv.de/

The Bavarian Journalists Association eV (BJV) is the Bavarian regional association of the German Association of Journalists with its seat in Munich .

The BJV had around 7,400 members in 2017. It is subdivided into five district associations, which largely correspond to the Bavarian administrative districts in terms of their geographic structure : Mainfranken, Franconia-North Bavaria, Augsburg-Swabia, Munich-Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate.

The BJV publishes the membership magazine “BJVreport” six times a year.

In accordance with the Bavarian Broadcasting Act (Article 6, Paragraph 3, No. 12), the BJV sends a member to the Broadcasting Council of Bavarian Broadcasting . In accordance with the Bavarian Media Act (Art. 12), the BJV also sends a member to the media council of the Bavarian State Center for New Media .

history

The Association of Professional Journalists in Bavaria (VBB) was founded on February 2, 1946.The first chairman of the association was Otto Groth , who was banned from the profession by the National Socialists as a half-Jew , who was replaced three months later by the publisher Walther de Bouché (born 1899). In 1948 Josef Ackermann took office after he had to work as a “ protective prisoner ” in the pathology department of the Dachau concentration camp. In the post-war years, material support for journalists and the establishment of a democratic press were in the foreground. On December 10, 1949, the association was involved in founding the German Association of Journalists (DJV).

The first collective bargaining resulted in the conclusion of a collective agreement for editors at daily newspapers in 1951 . In the same year, the SZ editor Ernst Müller-Meiningen jr. Association chairman and remained so for 20 years.

In 1971 the former SS-Unterscharführer and later founder of the right-wing extremist party Die Republikaner Franz Schönhuber became chairman of the Bavarian Journalists' Association.

In 1974 the association succeeded in reaching an agreement with Bundesverband Druck on the first general collective bargaining agreement for journalists. Renewed collective bargaining talks with the federal association in 1976 failed. The BJV, like the German Association of Journalists, opposed a strike call by the IG Druck und Papier . In its own statement against a resumption of strikes, the BJV warned of negative consequences, especially for freelance journalists.

In 1977 the head of the Landfunk department of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, Erich Geiersberger, became chairman of the association. His predecessor Franz Schönhuber became honorary chairman. The association was heavily in debt at the time. Geiersberger pushed through an increase in membership fees and at the same time strived for more solid member support. This led to a tripling of the number of members during his tenure.

In 1981 the board of directors of the BJV asked its former chairman Franz Schönhuber to immediately resign from his honorary chairmanship of the BJV. At the same time, the board of directors expressly distanced itself in a press release from the form and intention of its autobiographical book entitled I was there and justified this by the loss of reputation for the association and the entire profession. The BJV board was initially criticized for this. Since Schönhuber did not resign the honorary chairmanship voluntarily, this was given to him at the BJV Association Day on 13/14. March 1982 in Grafenau withdrawn by voting. On the same day, 17 supporters of Schönhuber resigned from the BJV. A week later, Schönhuber also ended his membership in the BJV.

Before 1984, the IG Druck und Papier, the Rundfunk-Fernseh-Film-Union (RFFU) and the DJV were negotiating a merger to form a large media union in the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB). Many members of the DJV, but especially members of the BJV, were against it. They feared that the freedom of journalists would be restricted by a media union within the DGB. The DJV remained independent.

In April 1988 the Academy of the Bavarian Press (ABP) was founded in Munich on the initiative of BJV chairman Erich Geiersberger . Their aim was the training and further education of journalists. Since then, the BJV, together with the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers (VBZV) and the Association of Magazine Publishers in Bavaria (VZB), has been the supporting association of the academy.

During collective bargaining between BJV and IG Medien with the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers , editors and journalists from over 130 daily newspapers went on strike in May 1990. At the end of the negotiations, a general collective agreement, a salary collective agreement and a training tariff were concluded.

In February 1992 Wolfgang Stöckel became chairman of the board. From May 1994 Wolfgang Stöckel represented the BJV in the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . There he was deputy chairman of the television committee for two terms - a total of ten years.

In 1997 the publishers terminated the collective agreements. Strikes followed again. BJV and IG Medien had a difficult time negotiating with the employers' associations.

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 changed the political situation permanently, which also had an impact on journalism. Bills were tabled more and more frequently in which, by invoking protection from terrorism, the freedom of the press would also have been massively restricted. In 2004 the biggest strikes by daily newspaper editors since 1990 took place. The aim was to prevent the extension of working hours, vacation and vacation pay cuts. In 2004, the Bavarian State Government was forced to revise the draft of a new Police Task Act of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior after the BJV intervened. The law would have made preventive tapping of telephone, cell phone, fax, SMS and e-mail traffic possible.

Michael Busch has been CEO since 2013. He is the editor of the Franconian Day in Bamberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bavarian Journalists Association. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ bjv.de
  3. ↑ Dennis Amour becomes the new managing director of the BJV. In: bjv.de. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  4. ^ Articles of Association - Bavarian Journalists Association (founded in 1946). (PDF; 120 kB) In: bjv.de. June 11, 2015, accessed March 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Bayerischer Journalisten-Verband eV annual report 2015/2016 for the general meeting on June 4, 2016 in Regensburg. (PDF; 1.97 MB) In: bjv.de. May 21, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The BJVreport. Member magazine Bayerischer Journalisten-Verband e. V. In: bjv.de. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  7. ^ Bavarian Journalists Association. History. In: bjv.de. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ How time flies . In: BJVreport . tape 3 . Munich 2016 ( bjv.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
  9. ↑ Brief profile of Wolfgang Stöckel. In: bjv.de. Bavarian Journalists Association, accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ulf J. Froitzheim: That, uh, the gray in the Bavarian Broadcasting Council. In: Froitzheim's word press. June 13, 2010, accessed March 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Torge Löding: New Bavarian Police Act relies on more surveillance. In: heise.de. August 3, 2004, accessed March 6, 2017 .
  12. ↑ bjv.de
  13. ↑ dpa / lby: Michael Busch leads the Bavarian Journalists Association. In: bild.de. May 11, 2013, accessed March 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Short profile Michael Busch. In: bjv.de. Bavarian Journalists Association, accessed on March 6, 2017 .