Old parliamentary journalist Max de Bok deceased (necrosis) – De Gelderlander

THE HAGUE – In his hometown of The Hague today the deceased journalist Max Buck. He had been just 83 years.
 

Max Buck had already stopped more than twenty years with his work as parliamentary editor of De Gelderlander, but never ceased to be a journalist. The course was his being. “I’m curious , was all he had to lead to explanation. Political journalist, a permanent resident of the Courtyard and surrounding areas for decades.

NVJ

 And also ten years (1969-1975 and 1982-1986) a passionate director of the Dutch Association of Journalists. He was five years, in two periods, president of the NVJ. Champion of journalists interests of journalistic independence and freedom of the press, one of the founders of the editorial status.

Poems

 Max Buck wanted to be really art editor when he joined in 1955 as reported by twenty editor Louis Frequin De Gelderlander in Nijmegen. He loved the Dutch language and poetry. Few will know that he, along with three colleagues, in the fifties under the title De Quart Lamp published a collection of poems which caused some stir in the literary world.

At the end of an evening shift shake the four each one few modernist verses from the sleeve. More than a quarter if the closing does not last, and typographical errors had to stand. I swell a bell tower / Bim Bam wrote poetry Max. They sent neatly pressed the bundle for all art newsrooms. The hilarity was great when the work here and there was seriously discussed, if not always flattering.

The Hague

 No literary career for Max Buck so. The carousel Frequin occasionally cranked to young people know all over the newspapers and the profession, brought the young Max in Doetinchem. He was introduced to local politics and landed a little later (1958) in The Hague. A compartmentalized world where everyone enjoyed his own right ‘, said Max about those early years. De Gelderlander was purely Catholic readers, Louis Frequin was the political unity of Catholics devoted and Hague editors had obviously hung her ears to the CSF of Romme.

Constricted consciousness
 Max later spoke with wise equanimity about this constricted consciousness. “I’m only in the sixties start thinking for yourself.” He had worked three years as a correspondent of the Press Union in Brussels, but was again brought back to become parliamentary editor, the showpiece of De Gelderlander as Frequin said.

Editorial charter

 Those were the years of Joop den Uyl, for whom Max had great admiration. He had his personal breakthrough to the left, from the Catholic nest in Breda where he grew up. Max had a great sense of social justice, which are political and also given him and journalistic attitude motivated to unbridled commitment to the Dutch Association of Journalists. Max Buck belonged to the spiritual fathers of the editorial statute that came in 1976 after years of toil and birth pain. That status gave the journalists at crucial moments say in the spiritual knowledge should be an independent newspaper.

Anne Foundling Price

 This enormous achievement for journalism Max Buck gave his career a damper on. Although a large part of his colleagues in Nijmegen looked like him as successor to Louis Frequin, he was passed in 1977 for the post of chief editor. At the Supervisory Board he fell out of the jar with his union zeal and left profile. Later, he could well look back on in perspective. He experienced peak years in The Hague, where he felt like a fish in water. Crowning his journalistic craftsmanship was Anne Vondeling Prize in 1984.

Nieuwspoort

 With the coming and going of MPs and government members was Max Buck in Nieuwspoort, the journalistic heart of The Hague, after some years of a fixed value and a source of information for journalists and politicians. Remained so after he stopped in 1995 with his work for De Gelderlander. In the same role, he remained in the background, present in the NVJ, which made him an honorary member. He was also chairman of Nieuwspoort and the Foundation of the Press Museum Friends.

Trusted friend

 Max was next to all this and above all a warm and loyal friend to many. They could count on him and, if necessary, he was counting on them. In those friends he finally met his great love Anne-Marie. It felt for all there as a reward. We will his friendship, his vast experience, his calm wisdom and compassion are missing.

Louis Geijn