1. Glen William Warnecke was an Australian journalist, editor, and publisher.
18 Facts About George Warnecke
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George Warnecke was born in Armidale, New South Wales and began his journalism career in 1913 as a junior reporter for The Evening News.
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George Warnecke went on to become the founding editor of The Australian Women's Weekly, the Editor-in-chief of Australian Consolidated Press, and a co-founder of Atlas Publications.
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George Warnecke died in Dublin at the age of 86 and was buried there next to his wife.
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George Warnecke was born to Joseph George Warnecke, a blacksmith of German descent, and Emily Jane nee Mapletoft in Armidale, New South Wales.
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George Warnecke's family had strong Labor Party sympathies which Warnecke would share throughout his life.
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The George Warnecke family moved to Sydney in 1912 and the following year he joined the Australian Journalists' Association, working as a junior reporter for The Evening News and its offshoot publication, Woman's Budget.
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In 1915 George Warnecke enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served on the Western Front with the 19th Battalion.
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George Warnecke had a weak left eye but had passed the medical examination by memorising the sight-testing card.
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George Warnecke was wounded twice in 1916 and diagnosed with shell shock.
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George Warnecke went on to become chief-of-staff the newly launched Daily Mail which at the time was aligned with the Labor Party.
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George Warnecke was appointed editor of Packer's new Sunday Guardian in 1929 and later became the Editor-in-Chief of Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press, responsible for the relaunch of The Daily Telegraph.
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George Warnecke had to go abroad from 1934 and did not return until 1935.
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Alice Mabel Jackson became the de facto editor of "the weekly" even though George Warnecke was still the nominal editor.
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George Warnecke wrote for several newspapers, but no longer worked as an editor.
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George Warnecke served as a consultant to Murdoch and tried his hand at publishing which he described to friends as the "Intelligent Young Man's Guide to Capitalism".
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The Warnecke's settled in Dublin where George became the "resident patriarch" of the Irish-Australian Society.
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George Warnecke was buried in Dublin next to Nora who had died in 1969.