Wout Woltz

Wout Woltz (born 1932 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch journalist . From 1983 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad .

Life

Woltz initially worked as a teacher, but then gave up his job and became a reporter for the daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk . After moving to Algemeen Handelsblad , he was head of the Saturday supplement and deputy editor-in-chief. In 1975, the Algemeen Handelsblad had already merged with the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant to form the NRC Handelsblad five years earlier , Woltz went to London as a correspondent . In 1983 he was finally appointed editor-in-chief as the successor to André Spoor .

Under the editorial management of Woltz, the positive circulation trend set in by Spoor continued, and the NRC Handelsblad finally caught up with the major national newspapers in the Netherlands. After his departure in 1990, Woltz succeeded Jan Blokker as associate professor for press history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam . Woltz's successor was later Ben Knapen , who had previously inherited him at NRC Handelsblad .

In 2006 a children's book was published in collaboration with his daughter Anna , which is partly based on Woltz's experiences during the starvation winter of 1944/45, i.e. during the German occupation in World War II .

Works

• Post uit de oorlog (with Anna Woltz ), Uitgeverij Leopold, Amsterdam 2006

Web links

• Biography on the website of Leopold Verlag ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch)