Wolfgang Stock

Wolfgang Stock (born 5 July 1959 in Hanover)[1] is a German author, professor and former journalist and managing partner of Convincet, a business consultancy for corporate communications.

[2] He earned a PhD with a thesis on the German European policy at the University of Oxford[2] and completed the Advanced Management Program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona .

As an organizer and driver for relief transport of the International Society for Human Rights, he assisted, in the mid-1980s, Father Jerzy Popieluszko in his efforts to supply the families of the Polish opposition under martial law.

[3][4] He was the first West European person who arrived in Gdańsk after the imposition of martial law on 13 December 1981, leading a transport worth of relief supplies for families of Solidarity activist confined in detention camps.

[6] From 2005 to 2014 Stock was managing partner of the corporate communications consulting agency Convincet GmbH (former RCC Public Affairs, among other things, the video podcast of Chancellor Angela Merkel and produces initiated.

[10] In May 2010, the Rundfunkrat of the WDR declared that the film violated the journalistic fairness through a highly simplified and one-sided representation thus held stocks complaint.

[12] In October 2010, Stock and the lawyer and professor Johannes Weberling [de] founded the Arbeitsstelle Wiki-Watch im "Studien- und Forschungsschwerpunkt Medienrecht" der Juristischen Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina (in short project Wiki-Watch) as Division of the media-law branch of the Viadrina European University, Germany[13][14] which watches Wikipedia critically.

[17][18][19][20][21] An article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung July 2011 and repeated in other media described an alleged conflict of interest between Stocks work for Wiki-Watch and for a pharmaceutical company which was a client of his agency Convincet.