Wolfram Baentsch

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Wolfram Baentsch (born July 15, 1939 in Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia ) is a German business journalist . He was editor-in-chief of Wirtschaftswoche and deputy editor-in-chief of Die Welt . He is a member of the Cologne City Council as a representative of the AfD .

Life

Baentsch studied economics and German at the University of Hamburg . As a qualified business teacher , he began his career as a journalist for the Hamburg weekly newspaper Der Spiegel in 1966 . He later worked for the newspapers Handelsblatt and Capital and in 1980 became the founding editor of the business magazine Impulse , which is distributed by Gruner + Jahr . In 1984 he left Impulse to become editor-in-chief of Wirtschaftswoche . Until shortly before his retirement he was Head of the Economy Department and Vice Editor-in-Chief of the World . In 1995 he ran the magazine Impulse again , from which he retired in 1996 with the highest circulation since it was founded. In addition, he was u. a. Lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

In retirement, he began to research the Barschel affair , about which he wrote the book Der Doppelmord an Uwe Barschel in 2006 . New facts and backgrounds to the largest political affair in the Federal Republic published. In 2008, an expanded new edition of Baentsch's book was published.

In the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2014 , Baentsch ran in constituency 17 (Sülz II) for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the City Council of Cologne . On November 1, 2017, he moved up to the council.

Baentsch is married and has two children. He lives in Cologne.

Awards

  • 1995: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, for "his commitment to building journalistic structures in the new federal states" (November 7, 1994)

Fonts

  • With Alfred Preuss: The money for your house. The optimal formula for mortgage lending. A capital advisor . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-570-05439-X .
  • The double murder of Uwe Barschel. The facts and background . Herbig, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2489-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A state secret to this day: The Barschel murder In: netzeitung.de Barschel affair: netzeitung.de A state secret to this day: The Barschel murder ( Memento from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Wolfram Baentsch: The double murder of Uwe Barschel. 3. Edition. Herbig, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7766-2523-3
  3. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Baentsch, Wolfram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baentsch, Wolfram Dietmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia