Steffen Seibert


Steffen Seibert is head of the German Federal Government's Press and Information Office and is the German government's spokesperson. The German Federal Government's Press and Information Office resembles the British Central Office of Information. He is officially ranked as an undersecretary of state.
Since late 2016, Seibert has been 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 he worked for the German television station ZDF as a journalist and presenter of the popular Heute Journal.

Biography

Steffen Seibert was born in Munich in 1960, and went to school at the Tellkampfschule in Hannover. 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

Steffen 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

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.