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SZ journalist Kornelius becomes a government spokesman
As a journalist, he mainly dealt with foreign policy. Now Stefan Kornelius changes the pages.
Political journalist Stefan Kornelius from the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” is to become spokesman for the new black and red federal government. According to the election of CDU boss Friedrich Merz as Chancellor for the 6th May, the 59-year-old Steffen Hebestreit, who has been a spokesman for the government of SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz for three and a half years.
Kornelius was appointed to the post by Merz. However, the personnel was first announced by the “SZ”: “Stefan Kornelius, long -time department head of the” Süddeutsche Zeitung “, will take over the office of government spokesman,” said the website of the national daily newspaper.
Head of Political Respect since 2021
Kornelius has been an experienced political journalist and has been working for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” for decades. He is one of the best -known journalists of the national leaf. Kornelius has headed the political department since 2021, before that he had been responsible for foreign policy since 2000. Other stations included the Berlin office and Washington during the Clinton Presidency.
In the 1990s, Kornelius worked in the Bonn Bundesbüro of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and reported, among other things, about the CDU. He was also a co -founder of the journal “Medium Magazin”.
Two deputies are still named
Kornelius will lead a team of three speakers. His two deputies are named by the SPD and the CSU. The Bavarian sister party of the CDU wants to make the previous spokesman for the CSU national group in the Bundestag, Sebastian Hille, the deputy government spokesman. This was learned by the dpa from CSU circles. First Michael Bröcker from “Table.media” reported about it.
For the SPD, the name of its nominated was not yet known. The government spokesman is responsible for the communication of the federal government as a whole, accompany the Chancellor to his appointments at home and abroad, conduct his press conferences and ask each other three times a week in the Federal Press Conference.
dpa
Source: Stern
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