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Günther von Lojewski

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Günther von Lojewski
Born(1935-07-11)11 July 1935
Berlin, German Reich
Died26 February 2023(2023-02-26) (aged 87)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Occupations
  • Author
  • Television journalist
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
Awards

Günther von Lojewski (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ fɔn loˈjɛfski]; 11 July 1935 – 26 February 2023) was a German political journalist, television presenter and author. He worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the ZDF and Bayerischer Rundfunk. From 1989 to 1997, he was head of the Sender Freies Berlin, and afterwards taught at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Life and career

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Lojewski was born in Berlin on 11 July 1935.[1] His father, Werner von Lojewski, was a speaker for Konrad Adenauer and the first speaker of Walter Hallstein, the President of the Commission of the European Economic Community.[2][3] He attended primary schools in Pößneck (Thuringia) and in Berlin-Steglitz, and gymnasium in Berlin, Hamburg and Bonn. He studied history, German studies, and political science at the University of Bonn and in Innsbruck.[2] He completed a dissertation in Bonn in 1960, Bayerns Weg nach Köln. Geschichte der bayerischen Bistumspolitik in der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, about Bavarian politics in the 16th century.[2][1] He first worked as an academic assistant for one year, and from 1960 as a journalist for the Hannoversche Allgemeine newspaper.[2] From 1964, he was a journalist of interior politics at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), and from 1969 leader of the news at ZDF,[1] where he established the television magazine heute journal.[3] He became head of the Report department of Bayerischer Rundfunk in the 1970s, and was later responsible for domestic politics.[1]

In 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lojewski became intendant of the broadcaster SFB in Berlin. The station supplied the news of the fall of the Wall for the world. After the German reunification, he succeeded in a merge with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), resulting in Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in 2003. He pursued an even larger merge but found not enough support for the idea. He held the position until 1997.[1]

He taught at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) from 1997 to 2009. He authored several books. At the university, he founded a project, Journalisten international, which enabled 200 young journalists from Russia, Ukraine and other countries from Eastern Europe to study in Berlin at the Internationales Journalisten-Kolleg of the FU.[4]

Lojewski wrote freelance for the FAZ until old age. In his last contribution, he analysed journalism, its standards, ethics and relation to freedom and power ("unsere Standards, unser Ethos und unser Verhältnis zu Freiheit und Macht").[1]

Personal life and death

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Lojewski had a daughter, Susann von Lojewski, who also became a journalist, working for the ZDF as leader of the studio in Nairobi.[1]

Lojewski died in Grasbrunn, near Munich, on 26 February 2023, at age 87.[1]

Publications

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Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Günther von Lojewski ist gestorben". FAZ (in German). 27 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Günther von Lojewski ist gestorben". Munzinger Archiv (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e Bertram, Oliver (1 October 2009). "Zum Tod von Günther von Lojewski". grasbrunn-aktuell.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Günther von Lojewski wird als Honorarprofessor der Freien Universität verabschiedet". FU Berlin (in German). 1 October 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d "Publications by Günther von Lojewski". German National Library (in German). 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Publications by Günther von Lojewski with others". German National Library (in German). 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Preisträger". bdzv.de (in German). 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Seehofer verleiht Verdienstorden". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 7 July 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
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