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Peter Scholl-Latour was a German journalist, author, and television presenter. He was born on 9 March 1924 in Bochum, Germany. He was best known for his reporting on the Vietnam War and the Middle East. He was also a professor at the University of Bonn and a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Scholl-Latour was a prolific writer, authoring more than 30 books on international politics and history. He was also a frequent guest on German television, appearing on talk shows and news programs. Scholl-Latour was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998. He died on 24 October 2014 in Bonn, Germany.

Popular As Peter Roman Scholl-Latour (Der letzte Welterklärer, Peter Scholl-L'amour)
Occupation writer,director,actor
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March 1924
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace Bochum, Germany
Date of death 16 August, 2014
Died Place Rhöndorf, Bad Honnef, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality Germany

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His wife is Eva Schwinges (1985 - 16 August 2014) ( his death), Gertrud Knies (? - ?) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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2008

In 2008 he visited East-Timor, the only country on the planet he hadn't visited before.

1979

At the beginning of the Iranian Revolution, he interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini on the flight bringing him back from Paris to Tehran (1979).

1973

On August 1973, he was taken captive along with some colleagues by the Vietcong forces while working as the chief correspondent for the German TV channel ZDF. He was released a week later unharmed.

1971

He was a writer and director, known for Peter Scholl-Latour berichtet (1971), Das Schwert des Islam (1991) and Die Rächer Lumumbas: Eine Kongo-Reportage (1964). He was married to Eva Schwinges and Gertrud Knies.

1945

Before he started his journalism studies, he served with a French Paratrooper outfit in the French Indochina War (1945/46).

1944

In his book Living with France, he gives account of how, after France was liberated from German occupation in 1944, he chose to sign up with the French army. Since he failed to reach French controlled territory at Metz, he decided to join Tito's Partisan army, but was arrested in the region of Steiermark in Austria and subsequently put in a Gestapo prison. After he was freed, Scholl-Latour was a member of the Commando Parachutiste Ponchardier from 1945 to 1946, a unit of French paratroopers, with whom he fought in the First Indochina War.

1940

Having a mother with Jewish background and thus suspicious to the national socialists (under the so-called Nuremberg Laws he was considered to be a Mischling, a "crossbreed" of first degree), his parents baptized him as a Catholic and sent him to the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel in Swiss Freiburg. When his parents were forbidden to keep transferring money to Switzerland he had to quit the Collège and return to Germany in 1940.

1924

Peter Scholl-Latour was born on March 9, 1924 in Bochum, Germany as Peter Roman Scholl-Latour.

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