Reinhart Hoffmeister

Reinhart Hoffmeister (born July 19, 1923 in Magdeburg ; † June 9, 2016 in Bremen ) was a German journalist and television presenter.

Life

Hoffmeister, born in Magdeburg in 1923, worked as a reporter for Spiegel and Stern from the late 1940s under the pseudonym Reinhart Holl . In 1948 he conducted an interview with Walter Ulbricht . In 1959 he made public that Werner Heyde , who was mainly responsible for the implementation of " Aktion T4 " during the Nazi era, had gone underground under a false name in Flensburg and worked there as an expert with the knowledge of influential lawyers and doctors. During the so-called Volkach art theft , Hoffmeister was the first to get in touch with the thieves of a late Gothic sculpture.

In 1969 Hoffmeister switched to ZDF and became editor-in-chief and presenter of the television magazine aspekte . As such, monument protection was particularly important to him , for which he called on viewers to form citizens' groups. In February 1974 Hoffmeister was given a short leave of absence after the writer Gerhard Zwerenz reported on police violence and torture in connection with the Frankfurt urban warfare . A year later he gave up the moderation of the magazine. In literary terms he became known as part of the litera tour program .

Hoffmeister died in Bremen in 2016 at the age of 92.

Web links

• Obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 13, 2016
• Aspects mourns. zdf.de, accessed on June 13, 2016 .