Hans-Joachim Griephan Explained

Hans-Joachim Griephan (born 26 September 1937) is a German journalist, publisher and founder of the "Wirtschaftsinformationsdienst" published since 1964, the .

Life and career

Griephan was born in Malchin. After a childhood in Mecklenburg, Griephan left the GDR in the early 1950s and went first to West Berlin, later to the federal capital Bonn.[1] He began his journalistic career in 1958 at the Berliner Morgenpost and in 1961 moved to the US news agency United Press International as a correspondent, initially in the Berlin, then in the Bonn bureau.[2]

In 1964, Griephan was for some months an editorial member of Die Zeitung – Ein deutsches Magazin at the publishing house in Stuttgart[3] (together with Sigfrid Dinser and Helmut Markwort[4])

From 1964 to 1993, Griephan edited the journal Wehrdienst. Der Informationsbrief für die Verteidigungswirtschaft.[5] [6]

Griephan was a columnist for a time in 1979 for the Wirtschaftswoche (Hans-Joachim Griephan über Behördenaufträge).[7] [8] For the Welt am Sonntag, Hamburg, Griephan wrote from 1979 to 1981 a weekly column "Bonner Geschäfte".[9] Von 1980 bis 1985 veröffentlichte das Unternehmermagazin Impulse, Cologne, Griephans Kolumne "Geschäfte mit dem Staat".[10]

In Bonn, Griephan was managing partner of the 3-W-Büro Agentur für Wehr-Wirtschafts-Werbung from 1969 to 1993. GmbH bzw. Bonnservice Werbe & Beratungsdienste GmbH.[11]

In 1979, the member of the Bundestag (SPD) filed a criminal complaint for insult against Griephan. When the was amended in 1978, Pensky had pushed through a strict restriction of any arms trade by German citizens and from West German soil. The offence ("Dämelack"[12]) was linked to the accusation that Pensky was causing difficulties for the German arms industry in the international arms trade. In a settlement, Griephan assumed the costs of the proceedings. He retracted his insult and Pensky the criminal charge.[13]

Other activities

Until 1988 Griephan was deputy president of the e. V., founded in 1960 in Lübeck. (FRG), then president.[14] In 1991 it moved its seat from Lübeck to Neubrandenburg.[15] On Griephan's initiative, the Förderverein Reuter-Museen e. V. was founded in 1991 to support the four Reuter museums in Stavenhagen, Eisenach, Neubrandenburg and Dömitz. Griephan is founder and owner of the Fritz Reuter Literary Archive in Berlin (formerly Privates Fritz Reuter Literaturarchiv [FRLA], Bonn).[16] He is considered an important autograph collector on 19th century literature. Since 2018, Griephan has been gradually transferring his collection as a gift to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, which is making these holdings accessible in Estate 597 (Collection Hans-Joachim Griephan).[17]

In the second half of the 1980s, triggered by his leadership activities in the Fritz Reuter Society,[18] Griephan was subjected to spying by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.[19] The reason for this was the joint effort of the head of the Federal Agency for All-German Tasks (BfgA) Detlef Kühn and Griephan to gain influence on the handling of the Fritz Reuter legacy in the GDR, according to the GDR authorities "in the all-German sense". Such things were rejected there and attempts were made to stop it.[20] Informants about Griephan included in particular the unofficial collaborator Jürgen Borchert,[21] [22] GDR dissident winner of the Fritz Reuter Art Prize of the Schwerin district (1980),;[23] the prize is not to be confused with the biennial Fritz Reuter Prize awarded by the Hamburg Carl Toepfer Foundation. Klaus Meyer,[24],[21] [25] Marion Schmidt,[21] . After Borchert committed suicide in the course of the affair, Griephan was accused in the regional newspapers in Neubrandenburg, Rostock and Schwerin, by the Evangelical Academy of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as by the then PDS of having "finished Borchert off with the Stasi club" .[26]

For the election periods 1994 to 1999 and 1999 to 2004, Griephan was elected to the city council of Neubrandenburg for the CDU.[27] [28]

Publications

Headlines

From reports by upi correspondent Hans-Joachim Griephan:

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Jan von Flocken, Dichter und Berichter, in Focus, 2 November 1998, html online
  2. Wirtschaftswoche, No. 23 to 30 May 1975,
  3. Aus unseren Kreisen, Informationsdienst für Presse, Verlage, Rundfunk und Werbung, Stuttgart, Jg. 6, Folge 118, 19 March 1964, .
  4. Aus unseren Kreisen, Folge 121, 30 April 1964, p. 6a.
  5. , Lübeck publishing house, among others in Edition XXVII, 1988/89,, and Edition XXVIII, 1989/90, .
  6. Wehrdienst: der Informationsbrief für die Verteidigungswirtschaft. Hamburg, Griephan,
  7. Wirtschaftswoche, Nos. 9, 15 and 19 from 26 February, 9 April and 7 May 1979, and 29.
  8. Ernest Mandel, Winfried Wolf: Ende der Krise oder Krise ohne Ende?: Bilanz der Weltwirtschaftsrezession und der Krise in der Bundesrepublik. West Berlin 1977, .
  9. Welt am Sonntag, No. 41, 14 October 1979, bis Nr. 42 18 Oktober 1981.
  10. Impulse, issue 6/1980 to issue 10/1985.
  11. Bundesanzeiger 24 October 1969. Registriert beim Amtsgericht Bonn unter HRB 960.
  12. Web site: Dämelack – Wiktionary. de.wiktionary.org.
  13. Bonner Kulisse. in Die Zeit. No. 20, 11 May 1979; Unter Ausschluß der Deutschen in Die Zeit, 7 July 1978.
  14. Hans-Joachim Griephan, Helmut de Voss (ed.): Mecklenburg – Land Fritz Reuters und Uwe Johnsons: Contributions to the International Reuter Days of 03 – 05 March 1989 in Lüneburg. Lübeck 1989.
  15. Sabine Frank: Ein großer Dichter kehrt zurück. Fritz Reuter Society takes up residence in Neubrandenburg. In Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, Rostock, 15 April 1991
  16. See the acknowledgement by Arnold Hückstädt among others at the Archive of Griephan after receiving the Annalise Wagner Prize 2009, annalise-wagner-stiftung.de/aws/htm/preis/preist19_Hueckst.htm; Sven Arnold (ed.),Literary Societies in Germany, Berlin 1991, .
  17. Privater Sammler trennt sich von wertvollen Reuter-Briefen. In Nordkurier, Neubrandenburg, 11 February 2019, .
  18. Peter Schütt: "Immoral handling of stupid files". In Die Welt 19 April 2000.
  19. Peter Schütt: Fritz Reuter im Visier der Stasi. In Die Welt, 22 January 1999.
  20. Detlef Kühn: InternetArchiveBot Berlin 2011, .
  21. poet-and-reporter . In Focus, Munich, No. 45, 2 November 1998, .
  22. Christiane Baumann: Das Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg 1971-200?. Schriftenreihe des Robert-Havemann-Archivs, vol. 11, Berlin 2006.
  23. See: Peter Hansen, Die plattdeutschen Autoren und ihre Werke, InternetArchiveBot Fritz-Reuter-Kunstpreis des Bezirkes Schwerin
  24. Sicherungsbereich Literatur, Berlin 1996, .

  25. Christiane Baumann: Das Literaturzentrum Neubrandenburg 1971–2005, .
  26. Peter Schütt: "Unmoralischer Umgang mit blöden Akten". In Die Welt, 19 April 2000.
  27. Statistisches Landesamt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (pub.), Statistische Sonderhefte, Wahlen 94, Kommunalwahlen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern am 12 June 1994, 4 (1994), issue 14, .
  28. Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (ed.), Statistische Sonderhefte Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wahlen 1999, 9 (1999), issue. 6,, see: http://service.mvnet.de/statmv/daten_stam_berichte/e-bibointerth90/wahlen/b731__/b731k__/daten/b731k-1999-01.pdf.
  29. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1189697234 "... Eine unschätzbare Quelle für die Erforschung der Geistesgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts" Handschriften von Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn im Fritz Reuter Literaturarchiv, in Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen