Volrad Deneke

Johann Friedrich Volrad Deneke (born March 8, 1920 in Wernigerode , † September 19, 2006 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German journalist , sociologist and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Deneke was born as the son of the Princely Stolberg archives director Günther Deneke and as the brother of the future North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Agriculture Diether Deneke . After graduating from high school in Davos in 1938 , he trained as a bookseller in Magdeburg . On September 1, 1939, Deneke joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7.143.950). In 1940 he completed his training with the assistant examination. He then studied economics and social sciences, worked as a business journalist in 1941/42 and worked as a publishing bookseller in 1942/43. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and then took part in the Second World War as a soldier until 1945 .

After the end of the war, Deneke turned back to journalism, worked from 1945 to 1948 as a freelance journalist and from 1948 to 1951 as head of the service as well as deputy editor-in-chief at Aachener Nachrichten . From 1951 he worked as a correspondent for various newspapers in Bonn and from 1958 to 1964 as editor-in-chief at Deutsches Ärzteblatt . From 1984 he worked as a freelance specialist journalist.

As a part-time job, Deneke worked as a lecturer at the Evangelical Library School in Göttingen from 1961 to 1992 and from 1961 to 1992 taught at the universities in Düsseldorf , Erlangen and Mainz , and since 1975 in the function of an unscheduled professor. In doing so, he dealt with the history of medical journalism, medical journalism and health education , as evidenced by many publications . He was from 1971 to 1974 CEO of the Association of German Medical Association ( Hartmannbund ) and then to 1984, chief executive of the German Medical Association and the German Medical . From 1981 to 1983 he was director of the Institute for Liberal Professions at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He was also chairman of the state association of the liberal professions in North Rhine-Westphalia , from 1984 to 1994 then president of the federal association of liberal professions and then its honorary president.

Political activity

Deneke was a member of the German Bundestag from July 26, 1963, when he replaced the late MP Ernst Keller , until 1965. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1969 to 1971 he was federal manager of the FDP. From 1970 to 1971 Deneke was the editor in charge of the free democratic correspondence (fdk).

Documents about Deneke's work for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach . From 1969 to 1977 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , 1971
• Large Federal Cross of Merit (1975) with star (1986) and shoulder ribbon (2001)
• Cavaliere Uffiziale of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy , 1980
• Ludwig Sievers Medal
• Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , 1994
• Honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol. Hc) from the University of Lübeck , 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Volrad Deneke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Honor for 85th birthday at the Deutsches Ärzteblatt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the Bundestag / I. -. Xth legislative period of former NSDAP and / or branch memberships ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 63 kB), Helmut Violence, accessed September 14, 2010.
2. ↑ JF Volrad Deneke †: A generalist in the truest sense . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , accessed September 14, 2010.
3. ↑ Hans Wolf Muschallik : On the award of the "Ludwig Sievers Prize" to JF Volrad Deneke . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , 1980, issue 16, p. 1068.
4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .