Reimar Oltmanns

Who is Reimar Oltmanns?

Reimar Oltmanns is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.

From 1970 to 1972 he was the spokesman for Peter von Oertzen, Minister of Culture for the Lower Saxony region.

Until 1970, Reimar Oltmanns was involved in various capacities with the Lower Saxony Young Democrats; afterwards he became President of this youth organisation, closely linked at this time to the FDP. He was a delegate to the regional and national congresses of the FDP and sat on the regional committee, without voting rights. The regional committee of the FDP party, with right wing politicians as well as deported German nationals were in dispute with the young democrats who they considered too close to the left wing opposition. Together with twenty leaders of the Young Democrats, Oltmanns rejoined the SPD.

He learned his journalistic profession with the newspapers “Cuxhavener Zeitung” and “Hannoversche Presse”. At the start of the 1970s he wrote from Hanover for the “Frankfurter Rundschau” and later from Bonn for “Stern”. At the same time he also wrote for "Stern" on German politics, and as chief editor on "Special Themes".

His influential teachers and mentors him wehe the professors Peter von Oertzen and Peter Brückner and the seniors editors, Karl-Hermann Flach of the Frankfurter Rundschau and Arnim von Manikowsky by Stern magazine n Hamburg.