1. Stefan Aust was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine from 1994 to February 2008 and has been the publisher of the conservative leading newspaper since 2014 and the paper's editor until December 2016.
14 Facts About Stefan Aust
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Aust was born in Stade, Lower Saxony as son of the farmer Reinhard Aust and his wife Ilse, born Hartig.
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Stefan Aust's father emigrated to America at the age of 18 and returned to Germany in the summer of 1939.
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Stefan Aust dropped out of business studies after a few weeks.
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Via Wolfgang Rohl, Klaus Rainer Rohl's younger brother, whom he met at the school newspaper, Stefan Aust came to the magazine after graduating from high school, where he was initially in charge of the magazines layout.
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From 1966 to 1969 Stefan Aust then worked as an editor for konkret and later for the St Pauli-Nachrichten.
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In 1969, Stefan Aust traveled to the United States for half a year.
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Stefan Aust was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine from 1994 to February 2008.
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Two of Stefan Aust's books have been made into films: Der Pirat 1997 by Bernd Schadewald and The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008 by Uli Edel.
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Stefan Aust has repeatedly expressed scepticism about the causes and consequences of global warming and dismissal of measures against climate change and of proponents of such measures.
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Stefan Aust is an anti-intellectual who is not attracted by the political debate, but by the noise.
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In 2014, Stefan Aust became editor of the newspaper "Welt", which was published by Springer Verlag, which he fought against for decades.
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Stefan Aust longtime defended the former Spiegel editor Matthias Matusek, which switched 2013 to Welt and in 2015 get fired there, because he was drifting to the New Right and its German movement Neue Rechte.
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In 2010 Stefan Aust was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen's NRW School of Governance.