Wolfgang Stock (journalist)

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Wolfgang Stock (born July 5, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German journalist , author , university professor and - formerly managing director - partner of the consulting agency for public relations Convincet GmbH.

Professional background

Wolfgang Stock studied history and political science at the University of Würzburg and in 1991 with a thesis on the German European Policy at the University of Oxford doctorate . In 2008 he completed the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School in Barcelona .

In the 1980s Stock began his journalistic activity as a freelance correspondent for various daily newspapers in the then Eastern Bloc countries. During the time of martial law he reported for Die Welt from Poland . He established close contacts with opposition intellectuals in the GDR , the Polish trade union Solidarność and Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia . As an employee of the member of the European Parliament Otto von Habsburg (CSU), he edited the Paneuropa magazine. At the same time he was involved in the Paneuropean youth . As an organizer and driver for aid supplies for the International Society for Human Rights , he supported Jerzy Popiełuszko in the mid-1980s in his efforts to provide for the families of the Polish opposition. He was the first Western European to bring aid supplies to Gdansk in support of Solidarność after martial law was imposed on December 13, 1981 . In 1985 he was banned from entering the GDR. From 1988 to 1996 Stock worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and in 1990 reported on the first free elections in the GDR. From 1991 he was the political correspondent for the FAZ in Bonn . From 1996 to 1998 he was the chief editor of the Berliner Zeitung , from 1998 to 2001 political correspondent for Focus in Bonn and Berlin . In 2000 he published the first biography about Angela Merkel . From 2001 to 2003 he was head of the politics department and managing editor of Welt am Sonntag .

Stock was appointed professor by the private Catholic Gustav Siewerth Academy , as the successor to Guido Knopp . From 2001 to 2009 he was head of journalism there. In 2004 and 2005 he was a representative of the professorship for the history of specialist journalism at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen for two semesters . Stock has been a lecturer for journalism at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) since 2006 .

In 2004 he worked for the media research institute Medien Tenor . Since 2005 Stock has been the managing partner of the consultancy for public relations Convincet GmbH (formerly RCC Public Affairs), which among other things initiated the video podcast of Chancellor Angela Merkel and produced eight episodes. According to Stock, this company “specializes in crisis communication and communication strategies in the iPad age”. There were Convincet partner offices in London, headed by Jill Cochrane, and in Zurich, headed by Hanning Kempe.

Stock is the managing director of the Pro Bürgergeld e. V., who supports the concept of “ solidarity citizens' money ” with a PR campaign, and has been managing director of the Free Evangelical Schools in Berlin since 2012 .

Stock is a member of the board of the Christian Media Association KEP . He is also the chairman of the Brüsewitz Center and its sponsoring association, the Christian-Pan-European Student Union. Stock is a member of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church . At the congress of the Academy for Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care in Marburg in 2009 he was a member of the press office and also signed the Marburg declaration “For freedom and self-determination - against totalitarian efforts by lesbian and gay associations” , after which “changing a homosexual tendency” is presented as possible and "people who suffer from their sexual orientation and are looking for therapeutic help" should be offered therapy.

In October 2009, Stock submitted the only successful program complaint in the tenth term of office of the WDR Broadcasting Council . This was directed against a film by journalist Klaus Martens entitled Unwanted healing , which was about a neurodermatitis ointment. In May 2010, the (meanwhile eleventh) WDR Broadcasting Council, headed by Ruth Hieronymi, stated that the film violated the requirement of journalistic fairness through a very simplified and one-sided presentation, and thus accepted Stock's complaint. As a result, the “Principles for Investigative Reporting” have been revised for all WDR program groups.

In Woltersdorf (near Berlin) , Stock was elected to the municipal council in the municipal elections in Brandenburg in 2008 and was also temporarily chairman of the main committee . In May 2011 he surprisingly announced his resignation and justified this step with time problems. Since June 2010 he has been chairman of the CDU local branch in Woltersdorf. In 1998 Stock became honorary managing director of the Christian day care center in Woltersdorf. In December 2012, Stock was appointed to the sixty-strong main board of the German Evangelical Alliance . With him, the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is represented on the Alliance Board for the first time . From 2012 to 2017 Stock was managing director of the Christburg Campus Berlin before he took over the office of general secretary at the Association of Evangelical Confession Schools in September 2017 .

Stock is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve at the Frankfurt (Oder) district liaison command of the Bundeswehr.

Wiki watch

Wiki-Watch logo lettering
Lettering of the Wikipedia logo

In 2010, Stock founded the Wiki-Watch project together with the lawyer and university professor Johannes Weberling with the stated aim of increasing the transparency of Wikipedia articles. The test is based on an algorithm developed in-house . Independent studies on the reliability of these evaluations made by Wiki-Watch are not yet available. Wiki-Watch is assigned to the media law department of the Faculty of Law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

An article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in July 2011 described an alleged conflict of interest between Stock's work for Wiki-Watch and the PR work of his agency Convincet for the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis . The holder of the chair for public law, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg , threatened indirectly with the end of Wiki-Watch, should the allegations against Stock prove to be true. According to research by the news magazine Der Spiegel, Stock has been working as a communications consultant for the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis since July 2009. According to his own statement, he had edited Wikipedia articles on health policy topics and drugs out of interest and personal concern and not for payment. As a result of media criticism, Stock waived the access rights of the Wiki-Watch Internet platform, which is to be relocated. In a press release, the European University Viadrina announced that there were "demonstrably false" allegations made against the Wiki-Watch office at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and their employees Wolfgang Stock, Maximilian Kall and Johannes Weberling, but without to explain what allegations were meant or what evidence would speak against it.

The Wiki-Watch logo alludes in part to that of Wikipedia. In 2013 , the Wikimedia Foundation therefore filed a complaint against the registration of the Wikiwatch logo as a trademark . This was rejected by the Federal Patent Court on March 26, 2014 .

Honors

Wolfgang Stock (right) with Bronisław Komorowski at the ceremony of the Solidarność Medal of
Gratitude , in the background Norbert Lammert

Wolfgang Stock received the medal of gratitude of the European Solidarność Center on September 3, 2010 in the Reichstag building in Berlin for his commitment in the 1980s as a representative of Poland Aid of the International Society for Human Rights . The medal was presented to him by the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski for his support of Solidarność in Gdansk, among other things with printing machines and by smuggling daily literature from Germany to Poland as well as political literature critical of the regime from Poland to Germany.

family

Stock is married. The couple has five children and lives in Woltersdorf (near Berlin) .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. communication congress 2012, archived from the original on March 14, 2013 ; Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
  2. ^ Lecturers. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), accessed on September 27, 2012 .
  3. a b Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. Justus Liebig University Giessen, archived from the original on September 10, 2005 ; Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
  4. Wolfgang Stock: The impact of the federal provisions in the Basic Law on the political discretion of the German government in the decision-making of the European Community. Thesis (D.Phil.), University of Oxford, Oxford 1991, Bodleian LCN 11268865. ( Also available as an e-book in the GVK : GRIN Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-638-39476-5 .)
  5. a b c d e f Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock (born July 5, 1959). (PDF; 74 kB) Convincet GmbH, archived from the original on November 14, 2012 ; Retrieved October 3, 2012 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Gnauck: A martyr of the 20th century. Poland's pastor Popieluszko is beatified. In: Welt.de. June 5, 2010, accessed September 13, 2012 .
  7. ISHR magazine Menschenrechte. 1/1984, pp. 16-18.
  8. ^ Gerhard Gnauck: Packages of Solidarity. Germans help the Polish people with a one-off campaign in the early 1980s. In: Welt.de. December 12, 2011, accessed September 13, 2012 .
  9. Polish President honors German human rights activists for support in the fight for freedom. International Society for Human Rights, September 3, 2010, archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; Retrieved on October 9, 2010 : "According to Solidarnosc representatives, the organizer of the ISHR aid convoys Wolfgang Stock was the first Western European in Gdansk after martial law was imposed."
  10. a b Markus Grill: We stay in the background. Pharmaceutical industry. In: Spiegel.de. July 11, 2011, accessed November 7, 2012 .
  11. ↑ List of speakers. Name: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. Association of Protestant Confessional Schools V., archived from the original on December 12, 2015 ; Retrieved September 18, 2012 .
  12. ^ Lecturers. European University Viadrina, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  13. Peter-Michael Ziegler: Merkel's video podcast costs 6500 euros per issue. In: Heise.de. June 16, 2006, accessed April 23, 2010 .
  14. Christoph Schwennicke: Real trouble with the virtual chancellor. In: Sueddeutsche.de. August 9, 2006, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  15. Communication expert Stock: Church in deep sleep. Christians should write more articles on beliefs on the knowledge platform Wikipedia. In: Medrum.de. March 25, 2011, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  16. political scene. Weekly newsletter of the magazine politik & kommunikation, issue no. 187, 3. – 9. June 2008, p. 4.
  17. Internet presence of the association “Pro Bürgergeld”. Archived from the original on October 21, 2008 ; Retrieved May 24, 2010 .
  18. New managing director of the FESB e. V. (PDF) Free Evangelical Schools Berlin, June 2012, archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012 .
  19. Church is missing in the TV entertainment that brings the ratings. (PDF; 76 kB) Interview with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. In: sinnstifermag.de. July 2006, accessed October 12, 2012 .
  20. Steffen Grimberg: Angeschmiert and dumped. WDR fires documentary editor. In: taz.de. May 14, 2010, accessed October 12, 2012 .
  21. a b Ann-Christin Sievers: At WDR it goes round - the strange story of a program complaint. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 21, 2010, features section, p. 37.
  22. WDR-Rundfunkrat: Press release of May 20, 2010. WDR-Rundfunkrat decides on program complaints against “cure undesirable” and “hard but fair”. May 20, 2010, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012 .
  23. a b CDU Woltersdorf with a new chairman: Wolfgang Stock unanimously elected to office. In: Märkische Oderzeitung June 29, 2010, page 16 (Spree Journal).
  24. ^ CDU Woltersdorf with a new chairman. CDU local association Woltersdorf, June 15, 2010, archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012 .
  25. ^ German Evangelical Alliance: The German Evangelical Alliance is expanding its network. ( Memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). December 13, 2012, accessed January 1, 2013.
  26. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. The Evangelical Alliance in Germany, archived from the original on June 16, 2018 ; accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  27. Change at the top of the association. In: pro-medienmagazin.de. September 24, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
  28. a b Wiki-Watch. Job in the study and research focus "Media Law" of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), accessed on October 13, 2012 .
  29. Ben Schwan: Wikipedia from the inside. Scientific project Wiki-Watch. In: taz.de. October 17, 2010, accessed October 27, 2012 .
  30. Markus Ehrenberg: Wiki-Watch.de: Under the magnifying glass. New online project. In: Tagesspiegel.de. October 30, 2010, accessed October 27, 2012 .
  31. External watchdogs want to improve Wikipedia. Wiki Watch Project. In: FAZ.net. January 13, 2011, accessed October 13, 2012 .
  32. 5 stars at Wiki-Watch. According to which criteria do we assign our formal evaluation. In: Wiki-Watch.de. June 29, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2012 .
  33. Peter Zschunke: The watchdogs of Wikipedia. Wikiwatch. In: Handelsblatt.com. January 13, 2011, accessed October 27, 2012 .
  34. Jörg Wittkewitz: Here the citizen still checks the insulin personally . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 151 , 2011, pp. 42 .
  35. To the article "Here the citizen still checks the insulin personally". In: FAZ.net. July 2, 2011, archived from the original on July 2, 2011 ; Retrieved July 4, 2011 .
  36. a b Michael Kröger: Conflicting objectives: Wikipedia author works for Sanofi-Aventis. In: Spiegel.de. July 10, 2011, accessed July 11, 2011 .
  37. a b Markus Grill: Wiki-Watch founder struggles to explain. In: Spiegel.de. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .
  38. Jörg Wittkewitz: Criticism of Wiki-Watch: Grandmother was already diabetic. In: FAZ.net. July 11, 2011, archived from the original on July 28, 2011 ; Retrieved July 11, 2011 .
  39. ^ European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder): Wiki-Watch is reorganizing. ( Memento dated March 3, 2013 on WebCite ). Media information no. 129–2011 from September 7, 2011.
  40. Torsten Kleinz, Volker Briegleb: Wiki-Watch leader withdraws. In: Heise.de. September 8, 2011.
  41. Decision in the complaint concerning the trademark 30 2010 052 044. Retrieved on November 8, 2018 .
  42. ^ Jörn Schumacher: Polish medal of gratitude for KEP board member Wolfgang Stock. In: pro-medienmagazin.de. September 3, 2010, archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; Retrieved September 3, 2010 .
  43. ktu, amk // kdj: Komorowski z Merkel o umocnieniu współpracy. In: tvn24 .pl. September 3, 2010, accessed on September 3, 2010 (Polish): "Wolfgang Stock, który dostarczał gdańskim opozycjonistom powielacze do drukowania podziemnych wydawnictw."
  44. Gerald Praschl: Poland says thanks to eleven Germans. In: SUPERillu .de. Burda, September 3, 2010, archived from the original on September 3, 2010 ; Retrieved September 3, 2010 .
  45. Curriculum vitae / CV of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock. In: bruesewitz.org. Archived from the original on June 30, 2009 ; Retrieved September 18, 2012 .

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