Wolfgang Baake

Baake was born in Warburg, North Rhine-Westphalia on 6 December 1950. He worked for ten years as an industrial clerk at Volkswagen.

He studied theology at the Marburg University from 1976 to 1982. After passing his second theological examination in June 1982, he completed a traineeship of just under a year in the newsroom of the NDR's Tagesschau and Tagesthemen programs in Hamburg.^[1]

Baake died on 8 December 2025, at the age of 75.^[2]