Career
He started his career as a Nazi propagandist, working for the newspaper Das Reich. After the war, he worked for the public broadcasting institutions Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk. He gained popularity as the host of the Sunday television discussion show Internationaler Frühschoppen, modeled on National Broadcasting Company"s Meet the Press and running from 1952 to 1987.
When his publicly expressed satisfaction upon the execution of pianist Karlrobert Kreiten in September 1943 became known to a wider public, he was forced to retire in 1987.
He received the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation in 1987.