Ulrich Makosch

Ulrich Makosch (17 March 1933 – 16 May 2008) was a German print and, more particularly as his career progressed, television journalist.

During the 1960s and 1970s he worked as a foreign correspondent: assignments included the Vietnam War. From 1955 till 1956 he worked as an editor for the local radio station in Schwerin. He then, from 1956 till 1964, worked as an editor and travel correspondent for the country's national broadcasting committee, a committee modeled on its Soviet equivalent that controlled radio, and increasingly television broadcasting. and, later, about the Vietnam War, and published numerous books on these and related topics. From 1972 till 1975 he was deputy chief editor for reportage and documentary with the television company, after which, for fifteen years till 1990, he was deputy chief editor of the long-running news programme (viewed in some quarters as a "propaganda tool") Aktuelle Kamera. In 1990/1991 he worked for CNN. He served on the GDR-Mozambique Friendship Committee between 1978 and 1990.