What is Theo Sommer?
{{Infobox person | name = Theo Sommer | image = Theo Sommer (1967).jpg | image_size = | caption = Sommer in 1967 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|6|10|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Konstanz]], [[Republic of Baden|Baden]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|8|22|1930|6|10|df=y}} | death_place = [[Hamburg]], Germany | website = {{URL|http://www.theosommer.de/}} }} '''Theo Sommer''' (10 June 1930 – 22 August 2022) was a German newspaper editor and academic. He worked for ''[[Die Zeit]]'', beginning in 1958, becoming an editor-in-chief and publisher.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9711/sommer.html |title=Perspectives on German Reunification: Theo Sommer Shares International Expertise |first=Susan |last=Manus |date=November 1997 |work=Information Bulletin |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=13 July 2020}}</ref> Sommer died on 22 August 2022, at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite news |title=DIE ZEIT trauert um Theo Sommer |work=die Zeit |url=https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2022-08/theo-sommer-trauer-die-zeit |date=22 August 2022 |access-date=22 August 2022 |lang=de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sommer, Theo}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:German academics]] [[Category:German editors]] [[Category:German journalists]] {{bio-stub}}