Claus Jacobi

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Claus Jacobi (4 January 1927 – 17 August 2013^[1]) was the editor of the German news magazine Der Spiegel from 1962 to 1968. He was arrested during the Spiegel scandal.

Jacobi was born and died in Hamburg. In 1946, he started his journalistic career. His wife Heidi (they married in 1971) unexpectedly died on 21 February 2012 in her sleep.