He worked since 1925 in the Berlin office of the Frankfurter Zeitung.

In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, for example, Bundesbank president Axel Weber made it clear that future rate hikes were very much on the table.

A commentary on the Panel report written by the Secretary General was carried by The Economist, as well as by more than 30 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, the International Herald Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Akhbar, El Pais, El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile) and The Nation (Bangkok).