Stock on the occasion of the awarding of the Medal of the European Centre of Solidarity by President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski.

Wolfgang Stock (born 5 July 1959 in Hanover)[1] is a German author, professor and former journalist and managing partner of Convincet, a business consultancy for corporate communications.

Life

Education

Wolfgang Stock studied history and political science at the University of Würzburg and the University of Oxford.[2] He earned a PhD with a thesis on the German European policy at the University of Oxford[2] and completed the Advanced Management Program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona .[2]

Journalistic and Academic Career

In the 1980s, he began his journalistic career as a freelance correspondent for various newspapers in the former Eastern Bloc countries, he reported during the period of martial law in Poland. He established close contacts with opposition intellectuals in the GDR, the Polish trade union Solidarity and Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. He was an employee of one of the deputies of the European Parliament, Otto von Habsburg (CSU), and he edited the Paneuropean Journal. At the same time he was involved in the Paneuropean Youth. As an organizer and driver for relief transport of the International Society for Human Rights, he assisted, in the mid-1980s, Father Jerzy Popieluszko in his efforts to supply the families of the Polish opposition under martial law.[3][4] He was the first West European person who arrived in Gdańsk after the imposition of martial law on 13 December 1981, leading a transport worth of relief supplies for families of Solidarity activist confined in detention camps.[5] In 1985, the then communist part of Germany (GDR) declared him a criminal person and denied him visas.

Working with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) as a correspondent since 1988, he reported, in 1990, on the first free elections in Eastern Germany/GDR. From 1991 on, he was political correspondent with the FAZ in Bonn. From 1996 to 1998 he was news editor of Berliner Zeitung, from 1998 to 2001 political correspondent for Focus in the federal capital, first Bonn and then Berlin. In 2000, he published the first biography of chancellor Angela Merkel. From 2001 to 2003, he was political editor and a managing editor of Germany's leading Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag.

Stock was professor of Journalism and division head at the Gustav Siewerth Academy from 2001 to 2009.[6] In 2004 and 2005 he worked for two semesters as a visiting professor for professional journalism at the University of Giessen.[7] From 2006 to 2015 he holds lectureships in journalism at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).[6][8] Since then he is teaching at IST-Hochschule, Duesseldorf.

From 2003 to 2005 he worked for the media research institute Media Tenor.[6] From 2005 to 2014 Stock was managing partner of the corporate communications consulting agency Convincet GmbH (former RCC Public Affairs, among other things, the video podcast of Chancellor Angela Merkel and produces initiated.[6][9]

In October 2009 he lodged the only successful content complaint in the tenth term of the Rundfunkrat of the WDR Broadcasting against a film of the journalist Klaus Martens. The Film "Heilung unerwünscht" (undesirable healing) was about a neurodermatitis ointment .[10] In May 2010, the Rundfunkrat of the WDR declared that the film violated the journalistic fairness through a highly simplified and one-sided representation thus held stocks complaint.[10] Consequently, the principles for Investigative Reporting for all groups of WDR program were revised.[11]

Since 2017, Stock is Secretary General of VEBS, the German Association of Evangelical Schools and Kindergartens.[12]

Project Wiki-Watch

In October 2010, Stock and the lawyer and professor Johannes Weberling founded the Arbeitsstelle Wiki-Watch im "Studien- und Forschungsschwerpunkt Medienrecht" der Juristischen Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina (in short project Wiki-Watch) as Division of the media-law branch of the Viadrina European University, Germany[13][14] which watches Wikipedia critically.[15][16]

Wiki-Watch conducted and published a survey of administrators of German Wikipedia and blogs regularly about German Wikipedia problems. Wiki-Watch's site wiki-watch.org provides statistic insights on Wikipedia and evaluates automatically the formal reliability of Wikipedia articles in English and German by using statistical edit data and by collaborating with WikiTrust.[17][18][19][20][21]

An article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung July 2011 and repeated in other media described an alleged conflict of interest between Stocks work for Wiki-Watch and for a pharmaceutical company which was a client of his agency Convincet. Weberling and Stock announced legal action against the newspaper, whereupon the online-articles have been taken offline.[22][23] Stocks last Wikipedia edits in the area of pharmaceuticals and health issues date two years earlier in spring 2009 and one year before founding Wiki-Watch in late 2010. By his own admission his edits derived from personal interest and concernment and were not paid by anybody. Only later, from summer 2009 on he had worked as a communications consultant for the pharmaceutical company.[24][25][26] In a formal reply in Der Spiegel, Stock unchallenged claimed that he had made his edits of entries related to a pharmaceutical company before beginning his consulting work for this company.''[27]

The European University Viadrina called the allegations against him "demonstrably false".[28]

Decorations and community activities

On 3 September 2010, the Polish state president Bronislaw Komorowski awarded him with the Medal of the European Centre of Solidarity in the German Reichstag parliament building in Berlin in the presence of the Bundestag's president Norbert Lammert. He received the medal for organizing the support of Solidarity activist's families and supplying the Solidarity underground with, inter alia, printing presses and "smuggling" of current literature from Germany to Poland, as well as political, dissident literature from Poland to Germany.[29][30][31]

Stock is Oberstleutnant of the Military reserve force at the Kreisverbindungskommando Karlsruhe of the German Army.[6] He is a member of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.[32]

Stock was elected to the municipal council (Gemeinderat) of Woltersdorf, Brandenburg and chairman of its Central Committee from 2008 to 2011 and member of the regional council (Kreistag) from 2014 until 2016.

From 1998 to 2012 he was Honorary Director of a Christian day care in Woltersdorf.

Publications

  • Wolfgang Stock, Helmut Müller-Embergs, Heike Schmoll: Das Fanal: das Opfer des Pfarrers Brüsewitz und die evangelische Kirche, Ullstein, Frankfurt/Main und Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-36616-3.
  • Wolfgang Stock, Kai Diekmann, Ulrich Reitz: Roman Herzog: Der Neue Bundesprasident Im Gespräch, Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, ISBN 3-404-61299-X.
  • Wolfgang Stock, Kai Diekmann, Ulrich Reitz: Rita Süssmuth im Gespräch, Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, ISBN 3-404-61327-9.
  • Wolfgang Stock: "Gedenken und Informieren" Die Selbstverbrennung von Pfarrer Oskar Brüsewitz, 18. August 1996 Ursachen, Hintergründe und Folgen Schulverwaltungs- und Kulturamt, Zeitz (1998), ISBN 3-313-11313-3
  • Wolfgang Stock, Jürgen Aretz: Die vergessenen Opfer der DDR, Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-404-60444-X.
  • Wolfgang Stock: Angela Merkel: eine politische Biographie, Olzog-Verlag, München 2000, ISBN 3-7892-8038-0 (1989–2000); Neuauflage 2005, ISBN 3-7892-8168-9 (1989–2005).

References

  1. ↑ "Referenten" (in German). kommunikationskongress 2010. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock". Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. 10 September 2005. Archived from the original on 10 September 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ Gerhard Gnauck: Ein Märtyrer des 20. Jahrhunderts – Polens Pfarrer Popieluszko wird seliggesprochen. in: Die Welt of 5 June 2010, page 7 (online).
  4. ↑ IGFM-Zeitschrift Menschenrechte, 1/1984, p. 16-18.
  5. ↑ "Polen / IGFM: Polnischer Staatspräsident ehrt deutsche Menschenrechtler für Unterstützung im Kampf für Freiheit" (in German). IGFM. 3 September 2010. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010. Nach Angaben von Solidarnosc-Vertretern war der Organisator der IGFM-Hilfskonvois Wolfgang Stock der erste Westeuropäer in Danzig nach der Verhängung des Kriegsrechtes.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Convincet GmbH. "Biographie von Wolfgang Stock" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2010. – 33 kB
  7. ↑ Verband Evangelischer Bekenntnisschulen. "Professor Wolfgang Stock". Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  8. ↑ European University Viadrina. "Dozenten". Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  9. ↑ pmz (16 June 2006). "Merkels Video-Podcast kostet 6500 Euro pro Ausgabe". heise online. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  10. 1 2 Ann-Christin Sievers: Beim WDR geht es rund – Die seltsame Geschichte einer Programmbeschwerde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 21 May 2010, Feuilleton p. 37.
  11. ↑ WDR-Rundfunkrat (20 May 2010). "Pressemitteilung vom 20.05.2010 – WDR-Rundfunkrat entscheidet über Programmbeschwerden gegen "Heilung unerwünscht" und "Hart aber fair"". Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Home". VEBS e.V. (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  13. ↑ dpa: Externe Aufpasser wollen Wikipedia verbessern, in FAZ 13 January 2011.
  14. ↑ "Impressum". Project Wiki-Watch. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  15. ↑ Daniel Grinsted: Die Lotsen bleiben an Bord. Auch bei Wikipedia tobt der Streit um die Gorch Fock. in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 31 January 2011, p. 33.: Wichtiges Instrument zur kritischen Beobachtung der Wikipedia.
  16. ↑ Christof Kerkmann (dpa): Wikipedia cherche la femme, in Badische Zeitung, 25 November 2011.
  17. ↑ Deutsche Presse Agentur: German watchdog monitoring English Wikipedia. Monsters and Critics, 13 January 2011 16:24 GMT.
  18. ↑ Christian Möller: Wikipedia: On Watch. The Information Society Blog, 10 January 2011, Wolfgang Stock: "With Wiki Watch and WikiTrust in place no one will be able to smuggle in an additional name or other false information unnoticed in the future."
  19. ↑ Ernst Corinth: Netzgeflüster: Einblicke ins Wiki. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine vom 4 November 2010, p. 23.
  20. ↑ Torsten Kleinz; Jo Bager. "Wikipedia-Admins: männlich, gebildet und genervt". heise.de. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ Miriam Hollstein: Undurchschaubare Wissensmacht. In: Welt am Sonntag. 31 October 2010, p. 4.
  22. ↑ Jörg Wittkewitz (2011), "Hier prüft der Staatsbürger das Insulin noch persönlich", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German), no. 151, p. 42 – "online-article has been taken offline after Weberling and Stock announced legal action."
  23. ↑ Jörg Wittkewitz (11 July 2011). "Kritik an Wiki-Watch: Schon Großmutter war zuckerkrank". FAZ online. Retrieved 11 July 2011. – "online-article has been taken offline after Weberling and Stock announced legal action. The FAZ had to print a formal reply: Gegendarstellung zum Beitrag „Schon Großmutter war zuckerkrank“ vom 11.7.2011. by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock, written on 1 August 2011.
  24. ↑ Markus Grill: Wir bleiben im Hintergrund. In: Der Spiegel. no. 28, 2011, p. 74-76
  25. ↑ "Zielkonflikt: Wikipedia-Autor arbeitet für Sanofi-Aventis". Spiegel Online. 10 July 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  26. ↑ Markus Grill (15 July 2011). "Wiki-Watch-Gründer gerät in Erklärungsnot". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  27. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock: Gegendarstellung of 13 September 2011, online 15 September 2011.
  28. ↑ European University Viadrina: Medieninformation Nr. 129-2011 vom 7. September 20: wiki-Watch organisiert sich neu 7 September 2011.
  29. ↑ js (3 September 2010). "Polnische Dankbarkeitsmedaille für KEP-Vorstand Wolfgang Stock". Medienmagazin pro (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  30. ↑ ktu,amk//kdj (3 September 2010). "Komorowski z Merkel o umocnieniu współpracy". tvn24 (in Polish). Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2010. Wolfgang Stock, który dostarczał gdańskim opozycjonistom powielacze do drukowania podziemnych wydawnictw.
  31. ↑ Gerald Praschl (3 September 2010). "Polen sagt Danke an elf Deutsche". [SUPERillu] (in German). Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  32. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock (2006). "Kirche fehlt in der quoten-bringenden TV-Unterhaltung – Interview mit Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock" (PDF). Sinnstiftermag. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
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