Walter Steigner

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Walter Brunolf Engelbert Steigner (born December 17, 1912 in Wilhelmshaven , † June 18, 1983 in Munich ) was a German journalist and director of the broadcaster Free Berlin and Deutsche Welle .

biography

Walter Steigner was born as the son of a professional officer and later Reichsbank official in Wilhelmshaven and grew up in Berlin. After attending the Herder Gymnasium there and graduating from high school in 1933, he studied law in Freiburg , Munich and Berlin . He passed the 1st state examination in law , but devoted himself increasingly to journalistic work in the 1930s. Until he was called up in 1940, he worked in the Berlin editorial department of the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten . In the Wehrmacht he was assigned to a propaganda company and reported on the war, most recently from the Kurland basin . From 1946 he took up a job as a news editor for the Rheinische Zeitung under Heinz Kühn in Cologne and in 1947 switched to the NWDR , where, initially as a political editor, he held the position of head of the main politics department until 1955. Between 1955 and 1959 he was head of the broadcasting department of UNESCO in Paris . After his return to Germany, he was head of the NDR radio station in Hanover from 1960 to 1961 . Between 1961 and 1967 he was director of the broadcaster Free Berlin and from 1968 to 1980 director of Deutsche Welle in Cologne.

Release

  • Walter Steigner (Ed.): More than words. Statements and comments on the German language . Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf u. Vienna 1980

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SURNAME Steigner, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steigner, Walter Brunolf Engelbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and broadcast director
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1983
Place of death Munich