Wolf J. Bell
Wolf Jürgen Bell (born June 10, 1924 in Kassel ; † June 21, 2014 in Wachtberg ) was a German journalist .
Life
Wolf J. Bell attended schools in Kassel, Bad Hersfeld and Fulda . In March 1942 he made his Abitur at the state humanistic high school (today: Rabanus-Maurus-Schule ) in Fulda. He was a soldier from April 1942 until the end of the war. At the end of the war he was captured by the Americans and the French.
In 1946/47 he worked for the German news agency (DENA), a press agency founded by the American occupation forces in the autumn of 1945 in their zone of occupation. From 1947 to 1949 he was a correspondent for several German daily newspapers at the Two-Zone Economic Council and the American High Commission. Bell followed the negotiations on the Basic Law and reported on the conferences of the Prime Ministers from Herrenchiemsee to Rittersprung near Koblenz. On September 6, 1949, he wrote his first report from Bonn on the constituent session of the German Bundestag. He became a correspondent for several daily newspapers from the federal capital Bonn. These included the Hessische Nachrichten, Südwest Presse in Ulm, Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf and Darmstädter Echo .
From 1969 to 1978 he was the political correspondent for the Neue Revue and Bunte Illustrierte. Bell joined the Bonner General-Anzeiger in 1970 as a freelancer . In April 1975 he became the foreign policy correspondent of the newspaper's parliamentary editorial office. Bell ended his active career on September 30, 1988. However, he continued to work as a journalist. From 1989 on he wrote as a permanent freelancer on foreign and security policy for various daily newspapers.
Bell had been with the journalist Ursula Bell born in 1953. Münch married. The marriage resulted in two sons.
Honors
- 1989: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1999: Theodor Wolff Prize for his life's work.
Publications (selection)
- Franz Amrehn, Bonn 1962
- 40 years of the German Bundestag, Stuttgart 1989
literature
- Der Weise von Wachtberg , obituary for Wolf J. Bell, in: Darmstädter Echo of June 27, 2014, p. 3.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf J. Bell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography at the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bell, Wolf J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bell, Wolf Jürgen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2014 |
| Place of death | Wachtberg |