Christian Wehrschütz

Christian Ferdinand Wehrschütz, born October 9, 1961 in Graz, is an Austrian journalist. He speaks English, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, French, Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian and is a military interpreter of Russian and Ukrainian. He is married and has two daughters.

Christian Wehrschütz 2014

Life

After graduating in 1980 from secondary school (Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Kirchengasse Graz) Wehrschütz studied law between 1981 and 1985 at the University of Graz, and furthermore also slavic studies, though he never got a degree in this field.

Professional background

Wehrschütz is reservist (major) in the Austrian army - Bundesheer (Major).[1]

Journalistic career

Wehrschütz started his journalistic career working for the far-right monthly magazine Aula, for which he wrote articles until 1983.[2] During the years 1987 - 1990 Wehrschütz was chief editor of the weekly newspaper Neue Freie Zeitung & of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and also wrote pieces for other journals.

In 1988 he volunteered for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung where he wrote reviews under the section title "The Political Book" during several years. He writes regularly for the Kleine Zeitung about the Balkans. He has also written many articles for various publications.

Since 1991 Wehrschütz works for Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF. First he worked for its teletext service but in 1992 he joined the ORF-Radio current service Pl In 1999, Wehrschütz was sent by ORF as a Balkan expert to Belgrade from where he supervises the reporting on former Yugoslavia and Albania. Two years he was also responsible for Bulgaria.

In June 2011 Wehrschütz was a candidate for the position as Director-General of ORF, representing the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).[3] However, he did not stand a chance against the acting Director-General Alexander Wrabetz as he didn't have enough political support to be considered a serious candidate.

In September 2015 Wehrschütz was appointed head of the ORF office in Kiev. [4]

Awards

In 1999 he was awarded the State Prize for journalistic achievements in the interest of spiritual national defense.[5]

In 2014 he was elected Journalist of the Year by the editors of the trade magazine The Austrian Journalist.[6][7]

References
  1. "Wehrschütz für Generalin". derStandard.at. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. "Freimaurer: Widerstand gegen Wehrschütz". derStandard.at. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  3. "Wehrschütz bewirbt sich für ORF-Generalswahl". derStandard.at. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  4. "Neues ORF-Büro in Kiew eröffnet". ots.at. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  5. "Preis für "Geistige Landesverteidigung" an ORF-Redakteur Wehrschütz - derStandard.at". DER STANDARD (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  6. "Journalisten des Jahres 2014 - Der Österreichische Journalist - medien journalismus zeitung print magazin radio tv online" (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  7. KG, Kleine Zeitung GmbH & Co. "Journalisten-Wahl - Christian Wehrschütz ist Österreichs "Journalist des Jahres"". Kleine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-05-19.
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