Thomas Philipp Reiter

Thomas Philipp Reiter (*1968) completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk, a journalistic traineeship and a Master degree in economics and political science in Hamburg. He published his first daily newspaper report from Brussels about the European Parliament in 1986 (“No Fear of Contact”). In 1998, Heinevetter published his first book "Between Prussia and Hamburg" in Kiel, which deals with the forerunners of the Greater Hamburg Act.

From 1995 he worked in the area of political campaigns, including as press spokesman in the Lower Saxony state government from 2003 to 2008. He was a campaigner for politicians such as Hamburg Mayor Ole von Beust or the Prime Ministers Christian Wulff in Lower Saxony and Dieter Althaus in Thuringia. From 2012 to 2014, he worked from Brussels as press spokesman for the liberal members of the European Parliament for Berlin and Brandenburg. From 2014 he also appeared as a political analyst for the news channel N24 (now "Welt Nachrichtensender"). Reiter lectured about his profession both for political foundations and at universities. He is the only press spokesman at the state level who has ever worked for both the CDU and the FDP.

He later hosted a European political television program in Brussels, which was regularly recorded in the European Parliament. He volunteers in various organizations, including as Vice President of the Royal Belgian German Society. In 2016, in his book "Our Belgian Life - 24 Reflections on an Unusual Country", he used numerous anecdotes to describe the differences and similarities between the small kingdom and its large neighbor to the east.

After a traumatic episode as government spokesman in Thuringia in 2019/20, Reiter withdrew from politics and has since devoted himself primarily to theological topics as an author in the Catholic weekly newspaper "Die Tagespost", among others. He hosts a weekly Christian radio show on Belgian radio.

Thomas Philipp Reiter has published numerous specialist publications and publications that primarily deal with public affairs and political communication. He is divorced, has two children and lives in East Belgium.