Wolf Dietrich Schneider (7 May 1925 – 11 November 2022) was a German journalist, author, and language critic. After World War II, he learned journalism on the job with ''Die Neue Zeitung'', a newspaper published by the US military government. He later worked as a correspondent in Washington for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', then as editor-in-chief and from 1969 manager of the publishing house of ''Stern''. He moved to the Springer Press in 1971. From 1979 to 1995, he was the first director of a school for journalists in Hamburg, shaping generations of journalists. He wrote many publications about the German language, becoming an authority. He promoted a concise style, and opposed anglicisms and the German orthography reform.
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