Kai Gniffke

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Kai Gniffke (2018)

Kai Gniffke (born November 20, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German political scientist and journalist .

From 2006 to 2019 he was "First Editor-in-Chief" of ARD-aktuell and thus also the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen . He succeeded Bernhard Wabnitz , whose deputy he had previously been.

On May 23, 2019, Gniffke was elected in the second ballot to succeed Peter Boudgoust as director of Südwestrundfunk .

Life

He completed his Abitur in 1979 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Daun . Gniffke did his doctorate after studying political science and went to SWR as a reporter , where he was responsible for deliveries to the main news from 1998. For a time he worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

On May 23, 2019 Gniffke was elected director of the SWR and replaced Peter Boudgoust on September 1, 2019. On August 8, 2019, Gniffke's last working day was at ARD-aktuell.

He has been an honorary professor for journalism in digital transformation at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences since 2019 .

Gniffke lives in Hamburg . He has been a member of the SPD since the early 1980s .

Web links

Commons : Kai Gniffke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Südwestrundfunk: Kai Gniffke is the new SWR director . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 23, 2019]).
  2. a b Website of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. insight-online.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. SWR director election - Kai Gniffke is the new SWR director. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  5. New SWR director: Kai Gniffke takes over the helm. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
  6. ^ Prominent new professors at the Faculty of Media. In: hs-mittweida.de. August 20, 2019, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  7. Rüdiger Soldt: Take two and not four . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 22, 2019 ( faz.net [accessed March 29, 2019]).
predecessor Office successor
Peter Boudgoust Director of Südwestrundfunk
since 2019
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