Steffen Seibert


Steffen Rüdiger Seibert is a German journalist and former television host who serves as Embassy of [Germany, Tel Aviv|German Ambassador to Israel]. He previously served as head of the German Federal Government's Press and Information Office and as the German government's spokesperson from 2010 to 2021. During his tenure, Seibert was officially ranked as a Secretary of State.
From late 2016 Seibert was a member of the German government's cabinet committee on Brexit at which ministers discuss organizational and structural issues related to the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
Previously Seibert worked for the German television station ZDF as a journalist and presenter of the popular heute-journal.
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Biography

Seibert was born in Munich in 1960, and went to school at the Tellkampfschule in Hanover. He then studied history in Hamburg and at the London School of Economics.
Seibert is married, and has a daughter and two sons. They lived in Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin's Dahlem district in 2011.

Television journalist at ZDF

Seibert worked for ZDF from 1989 to 2010. In addition to his roles at ZDF, he co-hosted the Bavarian TV Awards in 2005 and in 2009. He also moderated the event series Nobelpreisträger in Mönchengladbach with guests F. W. de Klerk, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 14th Dalai Lama.
Yearsfunction
1989–1992Journalist
1992–1995Correspondent for ZDF News in Washington, D.C.
1995–1996Presenter of in Berlin
1996–1997Presenter of ZDF Abendmagazin
1997–2000Presenter of hallo deutschland
2000–2003Presenter of ZDF.reporter
2003–2010News presenter in Mainz
2007–2010Presenter of heute-journal alongside co-anchor Dunja Hayali in Mainz
2009–2010Presenter of Sternstunden der Deutschen

Recognition

Other activities

Before taking on his current position, Seibert was an ambassador of UNICEF in Germany. In this capacity, he visited some of the organization's projects in Angola in 2003.