Erdmann Linde

Erdmann Linde (born February 22, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and former television official.

Linde initially did an apprenticeship as a steel fitter before he graduated from the Westfalen-Kolleg in Dortmund in 1967 . Thereupon he began to study social sciences, education and journalism at the Ruhr University Bochum , in 1974 he finished his studies with a Magister Artium. At the beginning of his studies he was federal chairman of the Social Democratic University Association for a year , after which he was chairman of the Young Socialists in the district of Western Westphalia from 1969 to 1972 . In 1979 he was elected to the first European Parliament , but left again in 1981 when he was appointed deputy director of the Dortmund Adult Education Center; previously he was head of a department there.

Linde was one of fourteen years the Broadcasting Council of the West German Radio on. In 1984 he was hired there, he headed the Dortmund cable pilot project , the only one under public law. From 1998 he was director of the WDR studio in Dortmund until he retired on April 1, 2006.

Linde is married and has three children.

Web links

• WDR studio manager Erdmann Linde adopts WDR press release on April 7, 2006
• Entry on Erdmann Linde in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Photo of Linde , accessed February 26, 2016