Heribert Faßbender

Heribert Faßbender, born on 30 May 1941 in Ratingen, is a German sports journalist and broadcaster. He joined the regional public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in 1963 and later worked for Sportschau, the sports magazine programme of the national broadcaster ARD. Alongside his broadcasting he wrote books on sport, among them a history of the German football World Cup published in 2006, a sports diary of the twentieth century published in 1984, a volume on the 1992 Olympic Games and annual football yearbooks issued in the first half of the 1990s. In 2001 he received the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is married and lives in Leverkusen.