Werner Veigel (9 November 1928 – 2 May 1995) was a Dutch-born German

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and

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. Veigel was born in

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, the son of a German salesman. After his education he successfully completed a sales trainee ship in a travel agency. When Radio Hilversum sought an announcer in 1950 Veigel applied and was given the position. In February 1954 he moved to the

NWDR Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; ''Northwest German Broadcasting'') was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 to ...

, where he was employed as a presenter and newsreader. From 1961 onward he also worked as an announcer and host on television. In 1966 Veigel became a narrator on the '' Tagesschau'', the oldest and the most watched news bulletin on German television. In 1987 Tagesschau promoted him to the role of chief newsreader, succeeding Karl-Heinz Köpcke. He was considered exemplary in terms of his faultlessness in emphasis, presentation and articulation. He commentated on the

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for ARD, and in 1980 played himself in the

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film ''

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''. In 1985 Veigel spoke the samples for a German version of

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's single 19 which reached Number 1 in Germany. In January 1995 Veigel had to give up his position on the ''Tagesschau'' due to his declining health. In a magazine interview given the following month he

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; he had lived with his partner Carlheinz Faust since 1955. Veigel died on 2 May 1995 as a result of a brain tumour. He is buried in

Ohlsdorf Cemetery Ohlsdorf Cemetery (german: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) ) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemete ...

in Hamburg.

Literature

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, Wilhelm Wieben, Werner Veigel: ''Rezepte und Geschichten aus 2000 Plattenkisten''. Kuhle L. Verlag, 1987

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