Wolfgang Trees

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Wolfgang Trees (* 1942 in Koblenz ; † January 30, 2009 in Aachen ) was a German journalist and editor for several daily newspapers as well as a local author and independent publisher .

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Trees was born in Koblenz as the son of a doctor and grew up in Aachen, where he completed his school days at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . There he discovered his passion for journalism early on and took part in the creation and publication of the in-house school magazine, from which the first official school newspaper Der Karlsschüler emerged through his initiative in 1962 . While still at school, he wrote his first articles for the church newspaper of the Aachen diocese . After graduating from high school and completing his military service, Trees studied political science with Klaus Mehnert , sociology with Arnold Gehlen and psychology with Friedrich Steinwachs, first at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and finally at the RWTH Aachen, as a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung .

While still a student, he did a traineeship at the former Aachener Volkszeitung , today's Aachener Zeitung, and was primarily responsible for the Rhein-Maas department. During this time, Trees was also an exchange journalist for the Dutch daily newspaper for six months Dagblad De Limburger in Maastricht. After completing his traineeship, he was taken on as editor of the Aachener Zeitung and worked there until 1982 as tourism editor for Belgium and the Netherlands and for the last nine years of this time as editor-in-chief Loyal to Dagblad and also took on a job as Aachen correspondent for Pers-Unie , a merger of eight exclusively Catholic Dutch and Belgian newspapers such as De Twentsche Courant (Hengelo), Noordhollands Dagblad (Hoorn), Het Centrum ( Utrecht), De Stem (Breda) or De Nieuwe L imburger (Maastricht). During this time, Trees was also a freelance speaker in the radio studios in Cologne, Aachen, Eupen, Maastricht and Hasselt, headed a weekly live music program from Hasselt for eight years for the second channel of the Belgian radio and television broadcaster (BRT 2) and developed it several 30-minute TV programs for the ZDF as well as for the mission here and now of the WDR . He also worked for the Reuters press agency for many years and was the correspondent responsible for the left Lower Rhine.

In 1982, Wolfgang Trees moved from AVZ to industry and took over the department management for internal communication and the editor-in-chief of the company's internal employee magazine at RWE Rheinbraun . Two years earlier, Wolfgang Trees and his wife founded the Aachener Triangel-Verlag in order to be able to organize the publishing of his own publications on his own. Since 1973 he has written numerous books with a focus on regional and historical backgrounds, especially about the war and post-war years and their effects on the population. Over the years, more than 26 books and more than 200,000 published copies came together, which he made available to the public at numerous lecture events. He was also known as a conscientious and critical observer and commentator of the Euregio Council and the Euregio Board of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, founded in 1971 .

Trees belonged to the regional association of the Aachener Presse in the German Association of Journalists and was its chairman from 1986 to 1990 and from 1999 to 2008. For his services to the German-Dutch cooperation, Trees was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1975 as well In 1972 for the best reportage with the European Prize of the City of Liège and in 1989 for his editorial and cultural services to the Rhineland with the Rheinlandtaler . For his life's work and his services to the region, Trees was to be awarded the Aachener Zeitungsente , the journalist prize of the Aachen Press District Association, but due to his unexpected death for unknown reasons on January 30, 2009, this honor was no longer awarded.

Fonts (selection)

  • 50 times through the border triangle ; Newspaper publisher Aachen
  • Coffee, crow's feet and controls ; Newspaper publisher Aachen, 1976, special print,
  • The Americans are here! - how Aachen was conquered in 1944 ; Wolfgang Trees / Charles Whiting, newspaper publisher Aachen, 1977, special edition
  • Battlefield Rhineland ; Newspaper publisher Aachen, 1977
  • War without Victory - Fates in Europe 1935–1945 ; Newspaper publisher Aachen, 1978,
  • Three years after zero - history of the British occupation zone 1945–1948 : a picture-text volume, Wolfgang Trees / Charles Whiting / Thomas Omansen, Droste, Düsseldorf 1978
  • Beloved Eupen ; Wolfgang Trees / Paul Margraff, Edition Doepgen, Eupen 1978
  • Decision in St. Vith  : the sinking of the 106th US Infantry Division in the winter battle in the Ardennes ; Wolfgang Trees / Charles Whiting, Edition Doepgen, Eupen 1979
  • Enterprise Carnival - the werewolf murder of Aachen's Lord Mayor Oppenhoff ; Wolfgang Trees, Charles Whiting; Triangel-Verlag, Aachen 1982
  • Good old Soers ; Triangel-Verlag, Aachen 1987
  • Battlefield between Meuse and Rhine ; Triangel-Verlag, Aachen 1995
  • Smugglers, customs officers and the coffee tanks - the wild post-war years on the German western border ; Triangel-Verlag, Aachen 2002
  • Hell in the Hürtgenwald - the fighting from the High Fens to the Rur September 1944 to February 1945 ; Wolfgang Trees / Adolf Hohenstein, Shaker Media, Aachen 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Trees, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, home writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2009
Place of death Aachen