Well-known ARD face died: Fritz Pleitgen is dead – “in our hearts the flags are at half-mast”

Created: 09/16/2022Updated: 09/16/2022, 11:45 am

By: Thomas Kemmerer

Fritz Pleitgen was director of WDR from 1995 to March 2007.

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TV Germany mourns Fritz Pleiten.

The well-known correspondent and WDR director died on Thursday in Cologne

Cologne – The German TV landscape mourns the loss of a prominent face: The journalist and moderator Fritz Pleitgen is dead. This was announced by the WDR.

Fritz Pleitgen: Known as a correspondent in Moscow, Washington, East Berlin

Fritz Pleitgen died Thursday (September 15, 2022) in Cologne.

Many know him as a TV correspondent for ARD.

Among other things, he was a correspondent for the public service institution in Moscow, later in East Berlin, the capital of the GDR at the time, before becoming head of the US studio in Washington in 1982.

Fritz Pleitgen was director at WDR from 1995 to the end of March 2007.

The sadness there is correspondingly great: "'The death of Fritz Pleitgen is very sad news for all of us at WDR.

In our hearts the flags are at half-mast.” (kem/IDZRW)