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Joachim Fuchsberger (born 11 March 1927 in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart) (pronounced [ˈjoaçim ˈfʊksberɡer]) is a German actor, television host, lyricist, businessman, activist, paratrooper and World War II veteran best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (always playing one of the good guys, often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard). In the English-speaking world, he is sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger. As a young man Fuchsberger was in the Hitler Youth and trained as a Fallschirmjäger.... MORE

Joachim Fuchsberger (born 11 March 1927 in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart) (pronounced [ˈjoaçim ˈfʊksberɡer]) is a German actor, television host, lyricist, businessman, activist, paratrooper and World War II veteran best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (always playing one of the good guys, often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard). In the English-speaking world, he is sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger. As a young man Fuchsberger was in the Hitler Youth and trained as a Fallschirmjäger. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was promoted to combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded. He was captured in a hospital in Stralsund by Soviet forces and came into Soviet captivity and later in American and British captivity. Because of this turbulent time of his youth on the Eastern front, he could never make a school diploma. In 1946 he worked as a coal miner for the British in Recklinghausen. His nickname Blacky, which has been incessantly used by the media, hails from that time. After his release he worked as a engineer for typesetting and printing machines in LESS