On March 13, 2026, Norbert Himmler was re-elected as ZDF director by the Television Council. No opposing candidate. 48 out of 53 votes. Calling it North Korean would be an exaggeration — but democratic it is not.
In the first part of this series, we showed what happened: an employee exposes internal misconduct, and instead of addressing the fake scandal, ZDF hunts down the messenger. Works council member Hubert Krech collected 600 likes with a tirade in which he labeled journalism as treason and called critical media war enemies.
