Wolfgang Wiedlich

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Wolfgang Wiedlich (2018)

Wolfgang Wiedlich (born April 27, 1956 in Bonn ) is a German journalist for the Bonner General-Anzeiger and has been involved in Bonn basketball since 1979 . Since 1998 he has been President of the Telekom Baskets Bonn eV Wiedlich is married and has two sons.

Career

After graduating from high school in Bonn (1974), Wiedlich completed his community service (1975–1977) and studied geography (major) and sports science (minor) for the teaching post of secondary level II at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, accompanied a sports science film documentary Project at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi (Kenya) and took his state examination in 1983. He then switched to journalism, completed a traineeship at the Bonner General-Anzeiger, during which he received a US grant from the John J. McCloy Fund of the American Council on Germany . As an editor, he worked from 1986 in various departments of the General-Anzeiger, specializing in scientific topics and here early on on issues of climate change . Since 1993, Wiedlich has headed the newspaper's weekend journal (magazine for knowledge and culture). From 2009 to 2014 he was part of an investigative team at General-Anzeiger, which researched the biggest building scandal in Bonn's post-war history ( World Conference Center Bonn ). Wiedlich has received numerous journalist prizes, including the Theodor Wolff Prize (1995) and the Guardian Prize of the German Daily Press (2010).

In parallel to studying and journalism, Wiedlich was involved in basketball in Bonn. In 1979 he started as a coach in the 3rd district league at SC Fortuna Bonn, whose basketball department he headed from 1980. His goal was to develop basketball into the most popular sport in Bonn. As part of several mergers, including the merger of the basketball departments of SC Fortuna Bonn and Godesberger TV (1992), and the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG as the main sponsor (1993), Telekom Baskets Bonn eV was founded in 1995 , which was part of the Bundesliga promotion. Wiedlich has been president of the club since 1998, after his predecessor Dr. Hans Braun died unexpectedly early at the age of 58. From 2001 to 2006, Wiedlich was Vice President of the Basketball Bundesliga . From 1999 he was also involved in the financing, planning and construction of the first Bundesliga-compatible basketball hall in club hands in Germany and the consolidation of all of the club's youth activities in 13 sports halls in Bonn. The Telekom Dome includes a main hall with 6,000 seats as well as its own training center for children and young people and was inaugurated in June 2008 with the final series against Alba Berlin . At the beginning of December 2018, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his many years of commitment to basketball, but also for his publications on climate change.

Publications

  • Experience Spain for yourself. Göttingen 1981, Syro-Verlag, ISBN 3-921885-95-7
  • Kiwis from Siberia? - Greenhouse effect, ozone hole, environmental policy. Basel / Boston / Berlin 1991, Birkhäuser-Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-2621-2
  • (Ed.) The unimaginable growth - the population avalanche. Bonn 1995, Bouvier-Verlag, ISBN 3-416-02542-3

Awards and honors

  • 1990 Promotion Prize of the 1st Environmental Prize for Journalism
  • 1995 Theodor Wolff Prize
  • 2002 1st prize from the Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung (Munich)
  • 2008 Bröckemännche Prize from the Bonn Media Club for reporting on climate change and building a separate hall with a training center for Telekom Baskets Bonn eV
  • 2009/2010 Guardian Prize of the German Daily Press, German Local Journalist Prize in the category "Investigative Journalism" and 1st Prize from the Association of Taxpayers (team awards) for research on the international building scandal surrounding the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB)
  • 2018 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn defeats Alba: New hall, old home strength  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Spiegel online from June 12, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.spiegel.de  
  2. ↑ Award for GA editor Wolfgang Wiedlich - Telekom Baskets boss receives Federal Cross of Merit. December 5, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ List of Theodor Wolff Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdzv.de
  4. ↑ The Environmental Journalism Prize awarded by Gregor Louis or the Environmental Foundation on May 16, 2002
  5. ↑ This man always went his way Rundschau-online from January 15, 2008
  6. ↑ The million dollar trap and the wage medium: online
personal data
SURNAME Good bye, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn