Walter Kannengießer
Walter Kannengießer (born August 13, 1929 in Osnabrück ) is a German business journalist .
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After graduating from high school in 1949, Kannengießer volunteered at the Osnabrücker Neue Tagespost , and from 1950 he studied economics and law in Münster . After graduating with a degree in economics in 1954, he initially received a grant from the High Authority of the Coal and Steel Community and was then from 1956-1958 editor for politics, news and economics in Osnabrück at the Neue Tagespost , then editor for politics and economics at the Ruhr Nachrichten in Dortmund . In 1963, Kannengießer moved to the FAZ's business department . Here he was a correspondent in Bonn until 1996 , and for the last twenty years as head of the Bonn business department, with a focus on social and financial policy . Since then he has been working as a freelance business journalist.
In the early 1970s, Kannengießer became a board member of the Federal Press Conference (BPK). For more than twenty years he was chairman of the Social Fund Federal Press Conference .
Kannengießer is married and has lived in Bonn since 1963.
Book publications (selection)
- With Wilhelm Seuss: employee insurance or private provision? The new regulation of the pension insurance. A guide. Frankfurt am Main 1968
- As publisher: Forum wealth formation, capital formation, crisis prevention. Cologne 1980
- With Bernd von Maydell (Hrsg.): Handbuch Sozialpolitik. Pfullingen 1988
- Does the welfare state still have a future? Discussion with Heiner Geißler . Darmstadt 1996
- On your own responsibility. The professional pension funds and their working group. St. Augustine 1998
- 50 years of the Baden-Württemberg care institution for doctors, dentists and veterinarians 1952–2002 - a chronicle. Berlin 2002
Awards
- 1974/1975 Theodor Wolff Prize
- 1979 Karl Bräuer Prize
- 1985 Ludwig Erhard Prize for business journalism together with Olaf Sievert and Henry C. Wallich
- 1985 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1987 Prize for SMEs from the Confederation of Self-Employed People
- 1995 Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Kannengießer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Excerpt from the laudation for the Hildegard von Bingen Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pot-maker, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |