Dombrowski

Journalist, writer

Born: 23.12.1882 in Danzig

died: 29.10.1972 in Wiesbaden

Dombrowski completed a three-year banking apprenticeship and then studied economics in Frankfurt am Main.

He worked as a journalist from 1907 and was senior political editor and deputy editor-in-chief of the "Berliner Tagblatt" from 1915-26. From 1926 until his dismissal in 1936 for political unreliability, he worked as editor-in-chief of the "Frankfurter General-Anzeiger", then as a freelance journalist.

After the Second World War, he founded the "Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung" and was its editor-in-chief from 1945-57. In 1949, Dombrowski was one of the co-founders of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" and was its co-editor until 1962. He lived in Wiesbaden from December 1960.

In 1952, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957, he became an honorary citizen of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; in the same year, he received an honorary doctorate from Mainz University. In 1962, he was awarded the high distinction of Officer of the "Palmes Académiques".

Dombrowski wrote works on recent German history (Bonn Republic) and published under the pseudonym Johannes Fischart (in the "Weltbühne") and Sebastian Brant (in the "Neue Rundschau").