The journalist and former WDR director Fritz Pleitgen is dead. This was announced by West German Broadcasting on Friday in Cologne. The former WDR director died on Thursday evening at the age of 84. Pleitgen worked at Westdeutscher Rundfunk from 1963 and was director from 1995 to 2007. He lived in Bergisch Gladbach until his death. Today’s WDR director Tom Buhrow praised Pleitgen as a “highly respected broadcast manager, correspondent and political journalist who decisively shaped WDR”.
Former WDR director Fritz Pleitgen died at the age of 84
