The longtime SWR radio presenter Thomas Schmidt is dead. This confirmed the family of the journalist of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung". Schmidt was one of the defining voices of the radio. From 1987 Schmidt initially worked at SDR 3 in Stuttgart. After the merger of SDR and SWF to SWR, the election Schwabe and family man went to SWR 3, then moved to SWR 1 Baden-Württemberg. Best known for the program "Good morning Baden-Württemberg", which he moderated until 2015. Legend has it Schmidt, when he presented the listener hit parade "Top 1000 X" with Stefan Siller 30 years ago for seven days a week around the clock.
The SWR also confirmed the death of the radio announcer. "We are so sad that a good friend and colleague has died," SWR-1 Program Director Carola Oldenkott said. "At the moment we are all just shocked and can not believe it - for our listeners we are a radio program, but of course SWR1 is a family that has known each other for decades and in which many friendships have been made."
SWR mourns radio legend Thomas Schmidt. "We can not believe it and are infinitely sad," said the SWR1 program director for the sudden death of the popular presenter. Thomas Schmidt died at the age of 62 in Stuttgart. # SWR.de
- SWR (@SWRpresse) October 31, 2019"That can not be," said an editor of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung", "yesterday I had WhatsApp contact with him in the Allgäu, where he went on vacation." The holiday was over on Thursday. At home in his home he collapsed. The cause of death is still unknown.
After training as a social security specialist, Schmidt, who was born in Iserlohn in 1957, visited the German School of Journalism in Munich. Schmidt leaves behind his wife and two children.