Hendrik Lünenborg elected NDR director | EUROtoday

The NDR’s broadcasting council has chosen Hendrik Lünenborg as the long run director of North German Radio. Lünenborg is to take over the enterprise of the incumbent inventive director Joachim Knuth on September 1, 2025.

Lünenborg is at the moment director of the NDR Landesfunkhaus Hamburg. Before that, the 53-year-old was, amongst different issues, this system director of the radio shaft NDR 90.3 and head of the directorate. Lünenborg acquired 50 votes in votes within the vote within the spherical funnel. There was additionally a vote in opposition to and two abstentions. At least 36 constructive votes have been needed to acquire the required two-thirds majority.

The NDR Board of Directors proposed Lünenborg for the publish as director on the finish of April, after the primary proposal of the committee within the spherical funcate had not reached the required approval in early April.

NDR is claimed to succeed in extra youthful folks and migrants

The new director desires to guard the journalistic independence of the NDR. He needed to make sure that public service broadcasting contributes to the preservation and strengthening of democracy, stated Lünenborg when he was introduced within the spherical funcate. In the struggle in opposition to populism and disinformation, he additionally desires to enter into cooperation with different media homes and publishers sooner or later. In addition, he was involved with the provide of the NDR youthful and particularly folks with migration historical past.

Lünenborg for greater than 30 years on the NDR

Hendrik Lünenborg comes from Weseke in Westphalia. In Osnabrück, he graduated from political science and historical past. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelancer on North German Radio.

According to the traineeship within the NDR, Lünenborg labored within the editorial group of the state coverage/financial system within the NDR Landesfunkhaus Lower Saxony in Hanover and the radio program NDR Info in Hamburg. In 2009 Lünenborg grew to become boss of the service and deputy head of the N-Joy radio program. From 2012 to 2016 he headed the directorate. From 2016 to 2020 he was this system supervisor of the radio wave NDR 90.3 Hamburg and deputy director of the NDR State Funkhaus Hamburg.

Then Lünenborg was liable for strategic company growth and once more head of the NDR directorate. He has headed the NDR Landesfunkhaus Hamburg since July 2023.

Too little votes for initially named candidate Harzer-Kux

It was the second try for the director’s election on the NDR. At the tip of March 2025, the board of administrators initially proposed the previous Bertelsmann supervisor Sandra Harzer-Kux because the successor to Joachim Knuth. However, the required two-thirds majority didn’t come about within the spherical funcate initially of April. At the time, 30 members voted for Harzer-Kux, 34 votes would have been needed.

According to the NDR State Treaty, the Board of Directors has a proper of proposal for the election of the director of the director. The director is chosen by the spherical funcate for an time period of 5 years.

Director Joachim Knuth supplied a shorter time period

The incumbent NDR director Joachim Knuth had supplied the supervisory our bodies final yr to shorten his time period by just a few months and to retire on the finish of August 2025 in order that his successor could be built-in into essential strategic and monetary selections within the NDR and ARD earlier. Knuth’s contract runs recurrently till mid -January 2026.

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