Erich Brost

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A plaque dedicated to Erich Brost in Gdańsk

Erich Brost (29 October 1903 – 8 October 1995) was a German journalist and publisher.[1]

Biography[]

Brost was born in Elbing, West Prussia to a Schichau-Werke shipyard worker and a tailor.[2] In 1915 his family moved to Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland), where he became a bookseller and engaged in politics and the labour movement.

Aged 19 Brost wrote his first column for the Social democratic , for which he worked until 1936, when the "Volksstimme" got suspended and the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig was forbidden. In 1935 he became a member of the Volkstag, the Free City of Danzig's parliament, representing the SPD.[3] Brost went into exile to Poland, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain, where he worked for the BBC.[2] After World War II and the expulsion of the German populace Brost moved to the Ruhr area in 1945 to build up the German News Service, a predecessor of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa). Brost was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represented the party at the Allied Control Council.[4] He received an Allied licence to publish a newspaper in the British Zone of occupied Germany. The first copy of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) was published on 3 April 1948 and Brost influenced the WAZ for the next decades.[1]

Brost founded the Erich-Brost-Stiftung in 1991, the „Erich Brost University Lecturership“ at the University of Oxford's „Institute of European and Comparative Law“ is dedicated to him.

Erich-Brost-Danzig-Award[]

Brost donated the „Erich-Brost-Danzig-Preis“ of 20,000 Euro, which is awarded to people or institutions for their merits in Polish-German reconciliation.[5] It was awarded to

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Speech[permanent dead link] by Johannes Rau at The Artus Court (in German)
  3. ^ Erich Brost Stiftung (in German)
  4. ^ Biography Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  5. ^ Erich-Brost-Stiftung: Our Activities in Poland (Friedrich Ebert Foundation (in German))

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