Harald Brand
Harald Brand (born November 30, 1941 in Minden ; † January 14, 2018 in Cologne ) was a German journalist .
Career
Harald Brand volunteered at Freie Presse Bielefeld from 1963 to 1965 , went to WDR in 1966 and was a reporter for the Cologne Tagesschau editorial team until 1974 . From 1974 to 1977 Brand worked as an editor in the news department . In 1977 Harald Brand became head of the WDR's Tagesschau editorial team. Only a year later he went to Moscow, where he worked as an ARD correspondent until 1982 . He then worked from 1982 to 1988 as an editor at the ARD studio in Bonn, then until 1990 as deputy studio manager at the Düsseldorf regional studio. In 1990 Brand took over the editorial management of the current hour .
From 1992 to 1998 he was program group leader and first deputy, then from 1998 editor-in-chief of the NRW state programs . From April 2005 Harald Brand was deputy to the WDR television director. He was also the presenter of the Westpol program on WDR. Brand retired on November 30, 2006.
Brand was buried on January 25, 2018 in the cemetery in Cologne- Lövenich .
Others
In 1996, together with Fritz Pleitgen , Harald Brand founded the fundraising campaign “The Children of Perm ”, which made it possible to set up a children's cancer clinic. Care for children with cancer in the region has improved significantly since then. On October 23, 2007, the then incumbent Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jürgen Rüttgers , awarded him the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Web links
- WDR editor-in-chief for state programs Harald Brand is retiring - WDR director Pleitgen: "Harald Brand made a decisive contribution to the great achievement of the WDR state programs" . WDR press release on presseportal.de, November 16, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former WDR editor-in-chief of the regional television programs Harald Brand dies - Buhrow: "He led the regional programs of WDR television to success with untiring energy". Westdeutscher Rundfunk, January 14, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Obituary notice. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brand, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2018 |
| Place of death | Cologne |