Hans Leyendecker

Hans Leyendecker

Born	(1949-05-12) May 12, 1949 Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia
Nationality	German

Hans Leyendecker (born May 12, 1949) is a German journalist. He writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists.

Leyendecker formerly worked for the magazine Der Spiegel, unveiling various political and economic scandals, such as the widespread illegal party financing during the 1980s, and that of the CDU in 1999. He also unveiled the smuggling of Russian plutonium into Germany, with the help of the foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst in 1994, bribery at arms deals, German Visa Affair 2005 and corruption of the staff council at Volkswagen.

References

Bongen, Robert (2007), "Der Kommissar: Robert Bongen über Hans Leyendecker", Die Alpha-Journalisten: Deutschlands Wortführer im Porträt (in German), Cologne: Halem, pp. 262–271, ISBN 3-938258-29-2

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 49275892 LCCN: n86090849 ISNI: 0000 0001 0898 7100 GND: 122353099 SUDOC: 030823234 BNF: cb12216152z (data)

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