List of Famous people born in Wesel, Germany

Jan Hofer

First Name Jan

Last Name Hofer

Born on January 31, 1952 (age 74)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Wesel

Jan Hofer is a German broadcast newsreader and retired television presenter. He was a well known and popular reader of the news programme Tagesschau on Das Erste. Hofer was the chief reader on Tagesschau from 2004 until 14 December 2020, having been a newsreader on that programme since 1985.

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Konrad Duden

Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden

First Name Konrad

Last Name Duden

Born on January 3, 1829

Died on August 1, 1911 (aged 82)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Wesel

Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden was a Gymnasium teacher who became a philologist. He founded the well-known German language dictionary bearing his name Duden.

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