Holger Friedrich, owner of the “Berliner Zeitung”, raises frowns with a comment in the “Financial Times”. Once again, he basically makes himself impossible.
An East Berliner who saves a run-down East Berlin newspaper from going under: that could have been a wonderful story. But Holger Friedrich is not a heroic protagonist. As the wealthy IT entrepreneur, born in 1966, at the end of 2019, the then ailing Berlin newspaper taken over by the DuMont publishing house in Cologne, he was immediately viewed critically. And since then there has always been reason to do so; last few days ago.