Stefan Aust leaves Spiegel TV management

Spiegel editor-in-chief Stefan Aust is stepping down from his position as managing director of Spiegel TV. The 61-year-old will become publisher with immediate effect. Spiegel TV will in future be managed by the previous managing directors Fried von Bismarck, Dirk Pommer and Cassian von Salomon, with Stefan Aust stepping down. According to new-business.de, the 61-year-old has vehemently opposed Spiegel-Verlag Managing Director Mario Frank's reorganization plans in recent months. Frank and Spiegel TV Managing Director Fried von Bismarck want to introduce a holding structure for the TV division. Aust's contract runs until the end of 2008.
Aust founded Spiegel TV in 1988 and ran it as editor-in-chief until he took over as editor-in-chief of the news magazine Spiegel at the end of 1994. From mid-1995, he was Managing Director of Spiegel TV.