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Franz Herre | |
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| Born | 11 April 1926 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Biographer, historian and journalist |
Franz Herre (born 11 April 1926) is a German biographer, historian and journalist.
Herre grew up in Augsburg and studied history at the University of Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1949, supervised by Franz Schnabel and with a dissertation on the Augsburg middle-classes during the Age of Enlightenment. He then worked as a journalist on the Augsburger Allgemeine and Rheinischer Merkur for several years. From 1962 to 1981 he was editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Welle in Cologne. He now works as a freelance writer in Herrsching am Ammersee.
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