Werner Bader

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Werner Bader (born March 4, 1922 in Haidemühl , Spremberg district ; † October 4, 2014 ) was a German journalist and author.

Career

Bader was born as the youngest of three brothers as the son of a weighing master in the briquette factory . As a scholarship holder, he passed the Abitur in Drossen / Neumark . During the Second World War he served as a pilot in a combat squadron in the Air Force . From 1945 to 1950 he studied history, newspaper studies and Slavic studies at the Humboldt University , and from 1948 at the Free University in Berlin.

In 1946, while still a student, he began working as a journalist. He reported u. a. for the courier from the founding party convention of the SED , headed the Berlin office of Spiegel in 1948/49 and was editor of the Neue Zeitung for four years from 1949 . In 1953 he went to the later broadcaster Free Berlin . In 1957 he left Berlin, in 1958 he became head of duty in the newsroom of Deutsche Welle and was appointed head of the German program there in 1968, which he remained until he retired in 1987.

From Cologne, Werner Bader developed a wealth of cultural and political activities. In 1973 he was co-founder and president of the International Association of German-Speaking Media (IADM). In 1977 he created the Central Office for German Choral Singing in Solingen, which still exists today . He was also a member of the East German Cultural Council Foundation in Bonn, of which he was a board member from 1972 to 2005.

He was also active in his Landsmannschaft Berlin-Mark Brandenburg , since 1985 as their national spokesman and chairman of the board of trustees of the “Brandenburg Foundation”. In 1998 he was significantly involved in the construction of their “House of Brandenburg” in Fürstenwalde / Spree . In 1999, however, he had to give up his functions within the country team due to controversy.

After the political change in East Germany , he moved to the manor house built in 1786 by Christoph Philipp Gerhard von Bredow in Görne ( Havelland district , Brandenburg ) and was also an honorary town clerk of Spremberg .

Bader became chairman of the “Mark Brandenburg Cultural Promotion Association” and the “Märkische Dichterstraße” initiative. He is the administrator of Gustav Büchsenschütz's estate .

In 2010 Bader received the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg and in 2012 the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star , after receiving the previous levels in 1982, 1987 and 1993.

Bader died on October 4, 2014 at the age of 92.

Works

  • Combat groups - the SED's special force for the civil war . Cologne 1964 (documentation)
  • Borrowed shine - refugees in their own country. Organizations and their self-image . Berlin 1979
  • Climb up, you red eagle: world hits from Brandenburg sand . Berlin / Bonn 1988, 4th edition 2009
  • Pioneer handle . Fact and legend . Berlin / Bonn 1992
  • The Landsmannschaft Berlin - Mark Brandenburg . Norderstedt 2011 (Books on Demand)
  • Andreas Kitschke: Churches of the Havelland . Berlin 2011 (Ed. With Ingrid Bargel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journalist and writer Werner Bader died at the age of 92 - a Märker has gone , Märkische Allgemeine , October 5, 2014
  2. ↑ BAnz AT November 22, 2012 B1
personal data
SURNAME Bader, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Haidemühl
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2014