Dieter Schröder, long-time editor-in-chief of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, has died. He made a significant contribution to the SZ becoming the newspaper it is to this day.
“In theory, there is no end to a journalist’s career.” Dieter Schröder said that in an interview five years ago when he had just turned 85. From 1952 Schröder worked for the Southgerman newspaper, he did so with a short break of two years until 1995. Between 1976 and his retirement at SZ, Schröder was first as head of foreign affairs as a member of the editor-in-chief and then from 1985 on as sole editor-in-chief. Because 65 was no more than an indication of his age, the son of a craftsman from Berlin Wedding, born in 1931, acted as the publisher of the for another five years Berlin newspaper. At the turn of the millennium, it wanted to become something that the SZ had been for a long time, namely a sheet of supraregional importance. She didn’t succeed, which wasn’t Schröder’s fault.