Holger Schmidt (radio journalist)

Holger Schmidt (* 1971 in Baden-Baden ) is a German radio journalist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Darmstadt , Schmidt studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the University of Potsdam .

Schmidt worked from 1998 for SWR3 and other radio programs of the Südwestrundfunk as an editor and reporter. He was a regular author of the SWR3 top topic . Since 2007 he has been working in the reporter and research department of the SWR and is the ARD expert on terrorism and internal security . As a writer, he has produced several radio features , each directed by Walter Filz . He also reported extensively on major terrorist trials in Germany ( Sauerland Group , Aleem Nasir , Global Islamic Media Front , Verena Becker , NSU trial ) - including on his terrorism blog .

Until 2007, Schmidt was also a member of the ARD legal department (television) at SWR and the author of films for the ARD counselor law .

Works

• Classified Buback - a reconstruction . Feature , SWR, 2008.
• Young man wanted to be bombed - suitcase bombs on German trains . Feature, SWR, 2009.
• GDR secret files: What did the BND know about the fall of the Wall? Feature, SWR, 2009.
• Inside al-Qaeda . Feature, SWR, 2011. (Series: ARD-Radio-Feature )
• The RAF Ghosts: Former terrorists as witnesses in court , SWR 2011.
• Right-wing terror: deadly underestimated . Feature, SWR, 2012. (Series: ARD-Radio-Feature )

Monographs

• How safe are we Counter-terrorism in Germany. A critical balance . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-280-05653-0 .

Web links

• Holger Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Holger Schmidt's terrorism blog