Education
Born in Norden, he studied law, political science and journalism in Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and Berlin.
Born in Norden, he studied law, political science and journalism in Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and Berlin.
Following this he spent time as a Fulbright scholar at the William Allan White School of Journalism of the University of Kansas. In 1960 he switched to the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, a public broadcaster based in Cologne, and became part of the editorial team of the Tagesschau, the broadcaster’s news service. He became head of the editorial team in 1965.
In 1974 he moved to Paris as an Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator correspondent, taking over the leadership of Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator’s studio there in 1978.
After five years there he returned to Germany in 1983, becoming Second-Editor-in-Chief of Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator-aktuell, the broadcaster’s central television news bureau. He returned to Paris as local chief at the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator studio in 1991, remaining there until his retirement in 1998.
He died in Cologne on November 6, 2008, from cancer. 1987: Chévalier of the Légion d"honneur.