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Born November 8, 1922 • Hamburg • Germany
Died December 18, 1980 (aged 58) • Bonn • West Germany
Role In Spiegel affair
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Gentz, Friedrich
Friedrich Gentz
German political journalist
Wilhelm Liebknecht
Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Strauss, Franz Josef
Franz Josef Strauss
German politician
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician
Frank Wedekind, 1918.
Frank Wedekind
German actor and dramatist
Görres, oil painting by Joseph Anton Settegast
Joseph von Görres
German writer
Baron von Reuter
Paul Julius, baron von Reuter
German journalist
Helmut von Gerlach
German journalist and politician
Moses Hess
German author and Zionist
Henry Villard
American journalist and financier
Kurt Eisner
German journalist and statesman
Hans Fritzsche
German journalist
Richard Sorge.
Richard Sorge
German journalist
Maximilian Harden, 1903
Maximilian Felix Ernst Harden
German journalist
Bernhard Kellermann.
Bernhard Kellermann
German writer
Mehring, Franz
Franz Mehring
German historian and journalist
Harry Reasoner
American broadcast journalist
Tony Snow
American journalist and White House press secretary
Ruth Sawyer
American writer