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Mar 21, 1913 Kaisersesch, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany Died on 26 Nov 1997 (aged 84)
German journalist
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About Werner Höfer
- Werner Höfer (21 March 1913, in Kaisersesch, Rhine Province – 26 November 1997, in Cologne) was a German journalist.
- He started his career as a Nazi propagandist, working for the newspaper Das Reich.
- From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Nazi Party. After the war, he worked for the public broadcasting institutions Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
- He gained popularity as the host of the Sunday TV discussion show Internationaler Frühschoppen, modeled on NBC's Meet the Press and running from 1952 to 1987.
- When his publicly expressed satisfaction upon the execution of pianist Karlrobert Kreiten in September 1943 became known to a wider public, he was forced to retire in 1987. His daughter Candida Höfer is a well known photographer.
