Wolfgang Höpker

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Wolfgang Höpker (born February 8, 1909 in Bromberg ; † March 6, 1989 in Bonn ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Höpker comes from a Königsberg family. He was born in 1909 as the son of an assessor and later district administrator in East Prussia . His father served as a reserve officer in World War I.

After graduating from high school in 1928, he studied economics , sociology and geopolitics at a humanistic grammar school in Erfurt . In 1934 he was at the University of Jena to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. Then he was political editor of the Munich Latest News and served as a soldier in World War II . Politically he was close to the DVP .

In 1946 he became editor of the Union Press Service in Hamburg. In 1948 he co-founded the Evangelical-conservative weekly newspaper Christ und Welt in Stuttgart. From 1954 to 1958 he was responsible for the world ’s political department. From 1958 he was a correspondent in Bonn and from 1980 foreign policy commentator at Rheinischer Merkur . He has published numerous books, in particular for political geography (maritime strategy, Africa and Eastern Policy).

He was married from 1935; his son Thomas Höpker (* 1936) became a photographer and documentary filmmaker.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Romania on either side of the Carpathians . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1936.
  • Between the Baltic Sea and Aegean Sea. Moscow's western apron (= library of time ). Heyne, Munich 1954.
  • European no man's land. Moscow's intermediate Europe from the North Cape to Crete . Diederichs, Düsseldorf a. a. 1956.
  • How red is the Mediterranean? Europe's endangered southern flank . With an afterword by Hans Speidel, Seewald, Stuttgart 1968.
  • World power at sea. The Soviet Union on all seas (= Military Political Series , Volume 6). Seewald, Stuttgart 1971.
  • The hour of truth. Consequences from the Eastern Treaties . Seewald, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Approach to the Atlantic. The threat from the north (= Military Political Series , Volume 9). Seewald, Stuttgart 1973.
  • Weather zone of world politics. The Indian Ocean in the power play of the powers (= Military Political Series , Volume 11). Seewald, Stuttgart 1975.
  • The West is stronger than it thinks. Plea for a global network system (= history and state , volume 246). Olzog, Munich a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-7892-7158-6 .
  • South Atlantic. Power vacuum in world politics (= series of publications by the German Marine Institute , Volume 5). Mittler, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-8132-0170-8 .
  • Metropolises of the world. Real and secret capitals . Burg Verlag, Sachsenheim u. a. 1986, ISBN 3-922801-00-5 .

Editorships

  • South Africa on the scales. A subcontinent between evolution and revolution . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-8046-8553-6 .
  • A hundred years of Africa and the Germans . 2nd edition, Neske, Pfullingen 1985, ISBN 3-7885-0268-1 .

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 27th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1988, ISBN 3-7950-2008-5 , p. 576.

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personal data
SURNAME Höpker, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1989
Place of death Bonn