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Josef Ernst

Journalist and corporate communications expert

Josef Ernst has worked as a journalist, a producer and in administrative positions for several media organizations in both Germany and the United States. They include The Wilson Quarterly in Washington, D.C., RIAS-TV in Washington and Berlin, Sender Freies Berlin as well as Marketplace.

Mr. Ernst subsequently dedicated a large part of his career to corporate communications, working at Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. His responsibilities included roles within the passenger car press department and internal communications, the heritage media department and overseeing the future technology publication Next. For a period of three years, he also managed the Daimler Sustainability Report.

As a former journalist and father of four children, Josef remains an ardent observer of politics, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have dispelled the notions of peaceful day-to-day life in Europe that dominated the scene for two generations.

He earned a Bachelor degree from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois, and subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and Political Science, along with a Ph.D from the Free University, Berlin, Germany.

Articles by Josef Ernst

France and Germany: Putin Says Cпасибо (“Thank You”)

Did Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Germany alter the not so charitable assessment about the state of Franco-German relations in any meaningful way?

June 1, 2024

Puff Goes the Magic Dragon of Wokeism

Contrary to the claims of its promoters, the religion of wokeism has led to the marginalization of the essential work required to maintain and improve democracy.

February 21, 2024