Erich Nieswandt

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Erich Nieswandt (born December 30, 1930 in Berlin-Neukölln ; † November 18, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German radio presenter , reporter and press spokesman for Sender Free Berlin (SFB).

Life

Nieswandt worked for the Berlin RIAS since 1959 . He was one of the first reporters to cover the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. Shortly after one o'clock he was woken up by his editor-in-chief at the time and hurried to the Brandenburg Gate to report on what had happened there.

He also reported live from the demonstration on June 2, 1967 in West Berlin against the Shah , saw and witnessed the violent attacks from Iran flown and paid Shah followers ( " cheering Persians ") against peaceful demonstrators in front of the Schöneberg Town Hall , which for further Escalation contributed. In the following weeks, a public prosecutor tried to force him to revoke his direct observations, otherwise a criminal investigation would have to be initiated against him. Nieswandt described this attempted coercion and censorship in a book about his time at the RIAS in 2002 as an “outrage” that he will remember for a lifetime.

In the same year Nieswandt switched to SFB 2 and took over the popular programs Echo am Morgen and Rund um die Berolina . He later worked as a department head for the morning programs of ARD and ZDF and as an editor for the daily topics . In 1989 he became press spokesman for the SFB, a position he held until his retirement in 1994.

On November 18, 2008 Erich Nieswandt died after a long illness at the age of 77 in Berlin. He was buried in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend in an anonymous grave .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original sound from the report from August 13, 1961
  2. ↑ Uwe Soukup: A shot that changed the republic: June 2, 1967. transit, Berlin 2017, p. 24
  3. ↑ Erich Nieswandt. Radio presenter, reporter, press officer . Short biography at http://www.berlin.friedparks.de/ . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Nieswandt, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio presenter, reporter and press officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 2008
Place of death Berlin