Cordt Georg Wilhelm Schnibben (born 28 July 1952 in Bremen) is a German journalist.
Only after the death of his father did Schnibben learn that both of his parents were involved shortly before the war ended in a politically motivated murder of an unarmed civilian, in which the father was a volunteer of "Freikorps Adolf Hitler" to which the main perpetrators belonged, as Schnibben reported in a detailed essay in the magazine Der Spiegel in April 2014.
He was influenced by the 1968 movement, and he demonstrated against the German emergency legislation (adopted on 30 May 1968), joined the German Communist Party and spent a year studying social sciences at the Franz Mehring Institute in Berlin-Biesdorf in East Berlin.
In 1991, Schnibben wrote an article[2] in Der Spiegel on extreme right-wing violence in Germany and the arson attack on the asylum center in Hunxe.
Schnibben founded the German Reporter Forum in 2007 together with the journalists Stephan Lebert and Ariel Hauptmeier.