Wolfgang Stock

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wolfgang Stock
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1959(1959-07-05)
Age	65
Birthplace	Hanover
Country	Germany
Birth City	Lower Saxony
Horoscope	Cancer

Wolfgang Stock Biography

Wolfgang Stock is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 5, 1959 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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. He was the first West European person who arrived in Danzig after the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981, leading a transport worth of relief supplies for families of Solidarity activist confined in detention camps. 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.

Wolfgang Stock Net Worth

Wolfgang Stock is one of the richest Journalist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wolfgang Stock 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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

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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.

Facts & Trivia

Shelley Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Wolfgang Stock celebrates birthday on July 5 of every year.

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. 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. 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.’ ‘ Given the ongoing legal dispute on the accusation, allegedly having edited articles in favor of a pharmaceutical company, Stock gave up his leadership position of Wiki-Watch and his access rights to its Internet platform, but remained a team-member in September 2011. The European University Viadrina called the allegations demonstrably false