- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWerner Erhard Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert
- Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert was born on February 5, 1937 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Magie der Krone (2010), Königreich des Glücks - Bhutan: Staat im Himalaya (2008) and Familienparty (1963). He was married to Barbara. He died on August 22, 2025 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- SpouseBarbara(? - August 22, 2025) (his death, 3 children)
- Children
- ParentsElisabeth Seelmann-Eggebert (née Förster)'
- RelativesWilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert(Grandparent)Martha Seelmann-Eggebert (née Sasse)(Grandparent)
- For over 40 years, from Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977 until his retirement in 2019, he provided commentary on the annual live broadcast of Trooping the Colour on ARD.
- After graduating from Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1956, Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert studied sociology, international law, and ethnology in Bristol, Munich, Hamburg, Hanover, and Göttingen. He completed his studies with a Master of Arts degree.
- In 1990 he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 1992 as Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- He was the only journalist in Europe to whom all seven European royal houses and their heirs to the throne granted interviews.
- While still at school and university, he worked as a trainee and later as a freelancer for the former Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). After the station split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1956, he remained at NDR as a freelancer for radio and television.
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