Claas Relotius

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Full Name	Claas Relotius
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 15, 1985(1985-11-15)
Age	39
Birthplace	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Scorpio

Claas Relotius Biography

Claas Relotius is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 15, 1985 in Hamburg, Germany. Claas-Hendrik Relotius (born 15 November 1985) is a German former journalist. He quit Der Spiegel in 2018 after acknowledging several instances of journalistic fraud.

On the 19th of December, Der Spiegel made public the fact that Relotius admitted that he “falsified his articles on a grand scale” and creating fake facts, people and quotes in at fourteen of his stories published in Der Spiegel, an event that is now being called “Spiegelgate”. The publication discovered the fraud after a coauthor of one of his articles on a pro-Trump vigilante organization located in Arizona that was conducting patrols along the Mexican-American border, the native of Spain Der Spiegel journalist Juan Moreno began to doubt the credibility of the work of Relotius and began gathering evidence against him. In the year before two residents from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn were concerned that the portrayal by Relotius of their town was not accurate. For instance, Relotius lied about seeing an original welcome sign painted by the city’s boundaries that stated: “Mexicans Keep Out”. They conducted an investigation on their own after attempts to reach Der Spiegel via Twitter failed to get results. They shared their findings on blog posts on Medium where they discussed eleven of Relotius the most outrageous lies. According to Anderson said, “In 7,300 words he really only got our town’s population and average annual temperature correct”.

On the 23rd of December, Der Spiegel magazine announced that it would file an indictment against Relotius. Relotius was accused of taking donations to Syrian orphans that he claimed to have had a meeting with in Turkey. Relotius requested donations to be deposited directly into his personal account in a bank.

Claas Relotius Net Worth

Claas Relotius is one of the richest Journalist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Claas Relotius 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Relotius his superiors initially backed his claims that the accusations against him were untrue. They even believed that Moreno was lying about him. But in the face of growing evidence of Relotius lies, Ozlem Gezer, the deputy director of Der Spiegel’s “Gesellschaft” (society) section and Relotius his immediate supervisor confronted Relotius and informed him that she was no longer convinced. The next morning, Relotius confessed, and Der Spiegel forced his resignation and branded Relotius “neither a reporter nor a journalist”. Relotius confessed to his colleagues at the time that the illness was affecting him and he needed to seek help. Der Spiegel left his articles available for the moment in a statement about the current investigation into fraud. In the aftermath from the controversy, Relotius returned four awards which he won from Deutscher Reporterpreis, and CNN removed his 2014 Journalist of the Award for the Year. The award-winning article about the treatment of an Alzheimer patient in an California prison was branded by Reportagen magazine as being under an investigation. Issue 21 of Der Spiegel published on 21 December, covered the case of Relotius in 23 pages, with an orange cover.

He was made an employee journalist at Der Spiegel, which has published nearly 60 pieces by Relotius since the year 2011. For his thorough reportage, Relotius received several awards which include his award for the Deutscher Reporterpreis on four occasions and most recently in the year 2018. Relotus’ Reporterpreis 2018 award was in the category of “Best Reportage”, delivered in Berlin in December early for a story that had “unprecedented lightness, density and relevance, which never leaves open the sources on which it is based.” Relotius was the German native language CNN “Journalist of the Year” in 2014 for a piece he wrote by The Swiss magazine Reportagen and was awarded the European Press Prize in 2017. The stories for which he was recognized or awarded prizes include stories about Iraqi children abducted from the Islamic State, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, as well as Syrian orphans who came from Aleppo who ended up being children prisoners in Turkey. In 2017 Der Spiegel sent Relotius for three weeks to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, to write an article on Donald Trump supporters “to give readers better insight into Americans.” The articles were discovered to be fabricated. Relotius also faked interviews conducted with the families of NFL footballer Colin Kaepernick.

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Claas Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Claas Relotius celebrates birthday on November 15 of every year.