Wilhelm Plog

Wilhelm Plog (born April 5, 1903 in Hagenow ; † November 6, 1986 in Hanover ) was a German publicist and editor-in-chief of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ), among others .

Life

family

Wilhelm Plog was the son of a Mecklenburg farmer and father of the future director of the North German Broadcasting Corporation , Jobst Plog .

Career

Wilhelm Plog attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , completed a bank apprenticeship in Lübeck and studied history, German and art history at the University of Munich . During his studies in 1923 he became a member of the Alt-Wittelsbach Munich singers . In the 1930s Plog went to Hanover. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP , was employed as head of the editorial department for their party organ, the Lower Saxony daily newspaper published by Bernhard Rust , but was soon dismissed by Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher .

After temporarily participating in World War II , Wilhelm Plog also worked for the Hannoversche Zeitung . After 1945 he worked in the church chancellery of regional bishop Hanns Lilje in Hanover and was co-founder and managing director of the weekly newspaper Sonntagsblatt published by Lilje in Hamburg .

In 1956, Plog succeeded Adolf Halfeld († 1955) as editor-in-chief of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and became a member of the management team of the newspaper publisher. Under Plog's leadership, the HAZ expanded to become the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Lower Saxony. For a long time, Plog also took on the role of general manager of the Madsack publishing company . In 1971 he retired.

Wilhelm Plog's grave can be found in the Seelhorst city cemetery .

Awards

Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit

literature

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 7, 1986
Dieter Tasch: Witness to a stormy time. Hundred years of publishing company Madsack , ed. from the publishing company Madsack GmbH & Co., Hanover: Madsack, 1993, ISBN 3-7860-0511-7 , pp. 138-142
Hugo Thielen : PLOG, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 288; online through google books
Hugo Thielen: Plog, Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 504 (abridged version).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hugo Thielen: PLOG, Wilhelm (see literature)
↑ Ernst Munzinger (managing director): Jobst Plog , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2007 of October 27, 2007, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 23.
^ Klaus Mlynek : Rust, Bernhard. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 532
↑ Hugo Thielen: Plog, Wilhelm (see literature)

personal data
SURNAME	Plog, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publicist and editor-in-chief of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagenow
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1986
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hugo Thielen: PLOG, Wilhelm (see literature)

[2] Ernst Munzinger (managing director): Jobst Plog , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2007 of October 27, 2007, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

[3] Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 23.

[4] Klaus Mlynek : Rust, Bernhard. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 532

[5] Hugo Thielen: Plog, Wilhelm (see literature)