Wilhelm Sand Fox
Wilhelm Sandfuchs (born June 25, 1913 in Wolfach ; † June 24, 1999 in Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German church journalist .
Sandfuchs graduated from high school in 1933 and then studied newspaper science , middle and modern history, church history and constitutional law in Munich. In 1935 he joined the Catholic student union WKSt.V. Unitas Winfridia at. In 1938 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.
During the Second World War , Sandfuchs was temporarily used as an official war reporter in the Wehrmacht's propaganda company for the Baden NSDAP regional newspaper Der Führer .
In September 1949, the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden appointed him head of the church radio department, which was newly created there, in order to look after the church broadcasts of all denominations. In January 1958 he took over from Gunthar Lehner as head of the church radio department at Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in Munich , which he headed until 1978.
In over twenty book publications, he recorded some of the particularly successful series in writing. The Minute of Reflection series was particularly popular - of the more than 5000 morning forewords and slogans on the radio, he published almost 2200 individual texts in six volumes by personalities of various kinds, which gave the listener or reader “the meaning of the new day and the everyday work ahead ”.
In addition to the regular broadcasts in church radio programs, Wilhelm Sandfuchs also had to oversee extraordinary church events for radio, such as the 37th World Eucharistic Congress in 1962, the 2nd Vatican Ecumenical Council 1962-65, the 81st German Catholic Day in Bamberg in 1967 and the Roman Bishops' Synods since 1967. From 1958 until his retirement from active service in 1978, he was in charge of reporting on the change of pontificate after Popes Pius XII at the BR, the lead ARD agency for reporting from the Vatican . (1958), John XXIII. (1963), Paul VI. as well as John Paul I (1978) and often commented on the events himself.
literature
- Frank Schrader: Wilhelm Sandfuchs. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1183-1188.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 4 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2000, p. 460 .
- ^ "Der Führer" from October 28, 1943 and December 9, 1943.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sand fox, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfach |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1999 |
| Place of death | Wasserburg am Inn |