Further unrest at Gruner + Jahr: "Capital" editor-in-chief goes

Klaus Schweinsberg, chief editor of the magazine from Gruner year (FY) issued by business magazine "Capital", the leaf is surprising to 1 Leave in February 2009. Perhaps, the Personnel in connection with the current harsh austerity of the publisher.

After G J-boss Bernd Kundrun had announced in late October, the portfolio "to clean up those titles" to want "to have no prospect that the crisis to survive," will be examined, the economy entitled "Capital" and "momentum" in Hamburg embarrassed. The previously established magazines in Cologne could be in the Hanseatic city closely with the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) "cooperate. For the investor magazine "Exchange Online", which so far is sitting in Munich, is a move to Frankfurt and close collaboration with the editors of the local stock market FTD conceivable.

As stated in publishing circles is, is already a precedent for such a scenario fallen. Supposedly the 'capital' chief hopes have made in Hamburg, something like a top editor of FY business press to be. Because he had been denied, he denounced. Speaks against this theory, however, that his departure for weeks already established. Whether the envisaged now move was already in sight, is questionable. In addition, over the fate of the FY business press until finally the Board on 27 November decide.

Apparently aware of the 38-year-old Schweinsberg now exactly what it is after 1 February 2009 will be professionally done. The Ph.D. economist FY 1999 was to come. There, he worked first as assistant to the executive heads Kundrun today. After stops at the "FTD" and "Impulse" He was in February 2006, chief editor of "Capital". In addition to a layout reform, he again led the classic way a monthly appearance - but so far without major economic and journalistic success.