Dirk Pohlmann
After his Abitur, Pohlmann studied journalism, philosophy as well as law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In his time he was especially impressed by the Jesuit Helmut Erlinghagen who witnessed the effects of the Hiroshima bombing. 1986 Pohlmann started with the production of documentaries. After his film on CargoLifter, and after starting to work as a freelance in-house documentarian, he became a manager of "CargoLifter World." It went into insolvency with its parent company Cargolifter in 2002. Pohlmann attributed the difficult situation of Cargolifter mainly to the German media, and the unpreparedness of politicians in Germany, leaving business in the end to US companies. After the "initial hype" about CargoLifter, the media in Germany had "howled in chorus like a pack of wolves" and had produced only variations of one false claim: "CargoLifter must fail, because airships are a harebrained idea." Loss of reality and absence of diversity are a basic problem of today's German media. They align their assessments with the reporting of leading media, i.e. among themselves, instead of reality. In his time with CargoLifter, Pohlman received training as a project manager. After 2012, he was manager of Peter Seeberger's pharmaceutical company "ArtemiFlow" for the production of the antimalarial drug Artemisin. Pohlmann produced documentaries for arte and ZDF. These include, among others, (titles translated into English) "The Secret Air War of the Superpowers" (arte, 2004), "UFOs, Lies and the Cold War" (arte, 2005), "Mengele's Heirs"' (arte, 2010), "Israel and the Bomb" (arte/ZDF, 2012) and "Deception – Reagan's Method" (2014). He hs regularly published his own contributions at "KenFM". Since March 2018, Pohlmann has hosted a critique of Wikipedia with former biology teacher Markus Fiedler in Fiedler's series "Stories from Wikihausen", which has appeared on their eponymous YouTube channel since April 2019. With Robert Fleischer and Mathias Bröckers he hosts the video channel "The 3rd Millennium" on "ExoMagazinTV". Pohlmann frequently contributes to German alternative media. He was a guest in programmes of "RT Deutsch" and "Sputnik News". In 2018 he gained public attention in Germany with his criticism of political networks within Wikipedia. A preliminary injunction against a group of Wikipedia critics concerning him, among others, because they had disclosed the identity of a Wikipedia author, was lifted in early 2019. In doing so, the court had followed the view that the "applicant was editing Wikipedia articles in an opinionated manner" and thus the user's disclosure had been in the public interest. In January 2021, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Fiedler and Pohlmann had named another volunteer Wikipedia author and local politician in a video because of a correction in a Wikipedia article with real name, photo, phone number and email address and called to "tell him what you think of his activities". Subsequently, threats were made against the author. Pohlmann was characterized in a ZDFinfo report in November 2019 as an "activist who thinks the U.S. is warmongering," and that "the Western media are not neutral, but propaganda instruments of NATO." The report mentioned that Pohlmann thought the military option was "the mindset of the Americans, that is, from the American point of view, war is a very profitable business." Sächsische Zeitung wrote in May 2021: "Dirk Pohlmann is particularly well-versed in his self-portrayal as a universal expert with a downright Goethe style, who actually contributes some kind of specialist “knowledge" to everything: Navalny, Middle East conflict, Green Party, Assassination of Olof Palme, whales, ravens ... ".
Life
He was a manager of CargoLifter World and ArtemiFlow, producer of Artemisinin.