Gerhard Schröder is a former German

Germans

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 radio director.

Schröder was born in Bad Wildungen

Bad Wildungen

Bad Wildungen is a state-run spa and a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany. It is located on the German Framework Road.-Geography:-Location:...

 and studied law and political economics in Marburg

Marburg

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. After his state examination he worked in the Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 Ministry of Culture, among other roles as leader of the Art and Culture Department.

From 1961 to 1973 he was director of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

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, having been a member of the governing body for six years. As the head of NDR, in 1970/71 he served as chairman of the ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

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.

In 1974 he switched to director of Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen

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, where he served until 1985. In his time there, among other things, the regional television news magazine Buten un binnen was launched in 1980.

External links

• Ex-Intendant Gerhard Schröder wird 85 at radiobremen.de