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Place of Birth: Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
About Reiner Merkel
- Reiner Merkel (January 28, 1952 - February 6, 2007) was a German manager, photographer and CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance. Merkel studied at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
- After working for the "Deutscher Sportbund (DSB) in Hesse" (German Sports Federation) he became head of dpa's picture services Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), a well-known news agency.
- Merkel was involved in developing "global media services" und "news aktuell".
- Since 2002 he was CEO of "dpa Picture Alliance", a platform of the six large stock photographies akg-images, Bildagentur Huber, dpa-Bilderdienste, kpa photo archive, OKAPIA, and Picture Press.
- Merkel was initiator of the dpa international facsimile broadcasting. Along with the National Olympic Committee of Germany and the OC of 2006 FIFA World Cup he was engaged in a global online-picture services for the Olympic Games as well as 2006 FIFA World Cup. Merkel, who was married and lived in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt, was a well known photographer and picture artist.
- His work was widely exhibited.
- He died unexpectedly during a skiing trip in the French Alps.
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