Updated July 31, 2020, 11:57 a.m.
Michael Spreng is dead. Among other things, Spreng was editor-in-chief of “Bild am Sonntag”. In the 2002 federal election campaign, he advised the CSU politician and Chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber.
Journalist, publicist and political advisor Michael Spreng is dead. Spreng died on Tuesday at the age of 72 in Mallorca, as the journalist Kurt Breme, who was friends with Spreng, said on request on Thursday. Spreng’s widow asked him to spread the news of the death.
Spreng worked for the Springer Group for a long time, including as office manager of the “Bild” newspaper in Bonn and from 1989 as editor-in-chief of “Bild am Sonntag”. In 2002, Spreng became the campaign manager of the then CSU candidate for chancellor Edmund Stoiber.
Regular guest on political talk shows
Stoiber was narrowly defeated by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) in the then federal election. In 2004, Spreng advised the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU chief and later Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers, but Spreng ended this engagement before the 2005 state election, which was successful for Rüttgers.
As a result, Spreng repeatedly wrote as a columnist and was a guest on talk shows, and he also ran the Internet blog “Explosives”.
In his last article in February, he devoted himself to the CDU’s search for a successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the top of the party. The last sentence of the article still applies five months later: “The race is completely open.” (hub / dpa / afp)
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