Fritz Pleitgen

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Fritz Pleitgen was born on March 21, 1938. At first he worked as a newspaper journalist before joining Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in 1963 as a reporter on the main news programme of the ARD. In 1970 he was appointed ARD correspondent in Moscow.

He was made head of the ARD-Studio in East Berlin in 1977, before he took over the responsibility for the ARD-Studio in Washington in 1982. He held this post for five years and then moved on to become the head of the ARD-Studio in New York. In 1988 he returned to the WDR headquarters in Cologne to become Editor-in-Chief of WDR television. He was appointed Radio Director of WDR in 1994 and its Director General in 1995 (until 2007). In 2002 he was appointed Vice-President of the European Broadcasting Union, before serving as its President from 2006 to 2008.

Fritz Pleitgen is currently the President of Ruhr 2010 Ltd., which is responsible for organising the events in the European Capital of Culture in the Ruhr Metropolitan Area in 2010.