Former NZZ editor-in-chief Fred Luchsinger dead

Fred Luchsinger, former editor-in-chief of the NZZ, is dead. He died last Saturday at the age of 87 after a long illness, his family announced on Tuesday. The historian served as editor-in-chief for 17 years from 1968 to 1984. Before that, he worked as Germany correspondent in Bonn between 1955 and 1963 and then as head of the foreign editorial office for five years. The deceased had shaped the journalistic face of the NZZ for many decades, the NZZ management states in the obituary.
Luchsinger was born on July 9 in St. Gallen. There he attended the literature high school of the cantonal school. He then studied history and philosophy in Zurich and Basel. He joined the NZZ in 1949 as a trainee in the foreign editorial department. In 1984, Luchsinger received the Peace Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation.