Thomas Deicke has been Publishing Director of Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH since 2009, with responsibility for advertising, sales, online, marketing. In addition, he is General Manager of Saarbrücker MediaVerlagsgesellschaft mbH that operates a call centre as well as of the Zweibrücker Druckerei und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, publisher of Germany's third-oldest newspaper that celebrates its 300th anniversary this year.

He began his professional career  working in ad sales and promotion at Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack in Hanover. Parallel to this, Thomas Deicke studied information science and business economics at the Leibniz-Akademie in Hanover.
In 2002 he moved to Regensburg where he took up the position of Advertising Manager at the Mittelbayrische Werbegesellschaft; then in 2004 he became Business Managar at the Parzeller Verlag in Fulda.
Thomas Deicke took up his next professional challenge in 2007 in Chemnitz, where he worked as Advertising Manager at the Chemnitzer Verlag.