Winfried Schwamborn

Winfried Schwamborn (* 1949 ) is a German author and television journalist.

He studied history and German in Cologne . A recognized conscientious objector himself , he headed the “Conscientious Objectors” working group in the Republican Club in Cologne and was a member of the DFG-VK . He was best known as the author of the manual for conscientious objectors , first published in 1972 , which had twelve editions by 1991.

Winfried Schwamborn worked as a television journalist at WDR , and is now the owner of a television production company in Cologne.

Works

• (with Thomas Schmitt): Military Studies. Military in Schools , 1972 ( ISBN 3-7609-0071-2 )
• Military justice as an ideology , in: Blätter für German and international politics , 1972, p. 95
• Manual for conscientious objectors , Pahl-Rugenstein , Cologne 1972, 12th edition 1991 ( ISBN 3-89438-024-1 )
• (with Klaus Mannhardt): Black Book Conscientious Objection: a contribution to the 25th anniversary of the Basic Law , 1974 ( ISBN 3-7609-0149-7 )
• (with Klaus Mannhardt): Community service. A Handbook , 1977, 2nd edition 1979 ( ISBN 3-7609-0451-3 )
• (as editor, with Klaus Mannhardt): Zivildienststories , 1980 ( ISBN 3-88142-232-3 )
• (as editor): Schwulenbuch. Love, Fight, Live , 1983 ( ISBN 3-7609-0761-X )
• (with Tim Lienhard ): Book of reasons for conscientious objectors , 1984 ( ISBN 3-7609-0886-1 )
• (with Gero Gemballa ): "I always think of a second life. Images of people from this country. Reports." Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1986. ISBN 3-7609-0980-9

Documentaries

• "The gentle walk. Heinrich Böll in Mutlangen ", first broadcast on WDR television , November 8, 1983
• The “new poverty” in Cologne , first broadcast on WDR television, January 15, 1985

literature

• Stefan Appelius : Pacifism in West Germany. Volume 2, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-89653-461-0 , pp. 650f.
• Patrick Bernhard, community service between reform and revolt. A Federal German Institution in Social Change 1961 - 1982 , 2005 ( ISBN 3-486-57800-6 ), p. 165