Fritz Pleitgen
German journalist and author
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Fritz Ferdinand Pleitgen was a German television journalist and author. He was correspondent in Moscow, East Berlin and Washington. Pleitgen was a supporter of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. Wikipedia
Born: March 21, 1938, Meiderich/Beeck, Duisburg, Germany
Died: September 15, 2022 (age 84 years), Cologne, Germany
Children: Frederik Pleitgen
Spouse: Gerda Lichtenberg (m. 1969)