Manuel Hobiger is quite known as one of the “hunters” from the ARD television program Gesucht – Gejagt. He is a German seismologist, volcano expert and quiz player who was born on January 21, 1982, in Würzburg.
He was a student of Würzburger Riemenschneider High School where he passed his Abitur. He also studied physics at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg.
He successfully graduated in 2007 with a diploma. Manuel Hobiger still furthered his education at the University of Grenoble in France.
After completing his thesis, Polarization of surface waves: characterization, inversion and application to seismic hazard assessment, he received his doctorate in 2011.
It must be noted that between 2010 and 2013, he worked at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Hanover as a postdoc and after 2013, he was at the Swiss Seismological Service in Zurich working as a research assistant and Seismologist.
As a quiz player, Manuel Hobiger took part in the RTL quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2003.
He won 500 euros and in August 2012, he also won €500,000 on the show Der Super-Champion.
It must be noted that he has been taking part in quiz competitions since 2006. Manuel Hobiger was the 2013 German quiz champion in singles, the 2014 and 2015 German champion in buzzer quiz and the 2019/20 Swiss champion in singles.
Is Manuel Hobiger Married?
The marital status of Manuel Hobiger would be updated soon. His nickname is Der Quizvulkan which means The Quiz Volcano.
Manuel Hobiger returned to Hanover in 2020 to work for the Federal Seismological Service.
He is a member of the German national quiz team as well as the founding vice president of the German Quiz Association.
He finished second in 2019 after taking part in the German team championship and in 2020, he placed third.
During the 2019 Quiz World Championship, he also placed fourth among the Germans.
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