Franz Herre
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Born11 April 1926
Fischen im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany
Died3 January 2026 (aged 99)
OccupationsBiographer, historian and journalist
Franz Herre | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 April 1926 Fischen im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | 3 January 2026 (aged 99) |
| Occupations | Biographer, historian and journalist |
Franz Herre (11 April 1926 – 3 January 2026) was a German biographer, historian and journalist.
Herre grew up in Augsburg and studied history at the University of Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1949, supervised by Franz Schnabel and with a dissertation on the Augsburg middle-classes during the Age of Enlightenment. He then worked as a journalist on the Augsburger Allgemeine and Rheinischer Merkur for several years. From 1962 to 1981 he was editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Welle in Cologne. He later worked as a freelance writer in Herrsching am Ammersee.
Herre died on 3 January 2026, at the age of 99.[1]
