Klaus-Peter Siegloch (born 15 May 1946) is a former German journalist and lobbyist.

Life

Siegloch was born in

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. He studied sociology, economics and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...

, graduating in 1973. Siegloch worked as a television journalist between 1973 and 2011, for German public broadcaster ARD from 1973 to 1988 and from 1988 to 2011 for

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

. His professional career began in 1973, as an editor at NDR, where he worked on the '' Tagesschau'' and on regional broadcasts; from 1982 to 1985, he also presented news magazine ''

Tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 ''Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...

''. Siegloch moved to ZDF in 1988, where he became head of the main editorial department for domestic affairs, working on such programmes as the Politbarometer. Siegloch became the head of ZDF's

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

studio in 1991, before becoming deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF's news the following year. From 1995 to 1999, Siegloch was ZDF's chief

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correspondent. In 1999, Siegloch became chief presenter of the 7pm

heute ''heute'' (; German for ''today'') is a television news program on the German channel ZDF. The main program is broadcast at 19:00, and includes news, with an emphasis on political news from Germany, Europe and the world, plus 'mixed' news from c ...

news, alternating with

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. From 2003 onwards, he was deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF, and head of the news department; alongside these duties, he presented

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between 2003 and 2007, acting as a regular substitute for

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and

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. In June 2007, Siegloch returned to Washington, where he once again became chief Washington, D.C. correspondent. From December 2008, he was head of the ZDF office in New York, responsible for reporting on Wall Street, the United Nations, and Canada. Siegloch retired from ZDF in April 2011 for age reasons. He went on to become president of the German Aviation Association (BDL), a position which he held until April 2016. Besides his profession, he was member of the Board of Trustees of the

Bertelsmann Stiftung The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. As the Bertelsmann Stiftung itself ...

, for example. Siegloch is married and has two children.

Awards

* 1989: Herbert Quandt Medien Prize * 1998: TV-Prize by RIAS-Berlin-Kommission

References

External links

* * FAZ
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Siegloch, Klaus-Peter 1946 births Living people German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists German television journalists German broadcast news analysts University of Hamburg alumni Journalists from Hamburg ARD (broadcaster) people ZDF people