Alexei Ivanovich Ajubei

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Alexei Ivanovich Adschubei ( Russian Алексей Иванович Аджубей , scientific transliteration Aleksej Ivanovič Adžubej ; born January 10, 1924 in Samarkand , Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan ); † March 19, 1993 in Moscow ) was a Soviet journalist and politician.

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Ajubei grew up in Moscow. He was a soldier during World War II . In 1945 he married the actress Irina Konstantinovna Skobzewa . The marriage ended in divorce. In 1949 he married Rada Nikitichna Khrushchev, the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev .

After the war he studied newspaper studies and dramaturgy. As a student he wrote for Komsomolskaya Pravda , first for the features section and later as a correspondent, among other things. In 1953 he became a permanent member of the editorial team. From 1957 to 1959 he was editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda and then took over the same post at Izvestia until 1964 .

Adschubei was one of the most influential politicians in the Soviet Union in Khrushchev's time as his advisor, especially during the Cuba crisis . He accompanied Khrushchev on his trips abroad. During his trip to the USA in 1959, he and colleagues wrote the book Eye to Eye with America , for which he received the 1960 Lenin Prize for Journalism.

In 1961 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . On March 7, 1963, Adschubei and his wife Rada were guests of Pope John XXIII at a private audience .

With his wife and two Izvestia editors, he visited the Federal Republic of Germany in July 1964 at the invitation of the Ruhr-Nachrichten , the Rheinische Post and the Münchner Merkur . Adschubei, who was considered a possible future foreign minister at the time, held a conversation with Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard during which he promoted a German-Soviet summit.

When Khrushchev was overthrown in October 1964, Ajubei also lost all of his offices, including the position of editor-in-chief at Izvestia . The reason for the replacement was that Adschubei had badly damaged the image of the Soviet Union with his statements about the Federal Republic, which he had praised as the “most powerful capitalist country in Europe” and with his private diplomacy and had impaired fraternal relations with the GDR.

Works

  • We saw West Germany. List, Munich 1964.
  • Overthrown Hope - My Memories of Khrushchev. Translated by Susanne Rödel. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-550-07468-4 .

Web links

details

  1. ↑ Ajubej, Alexej. In: Munzinger, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1993 from June 14th, 1993 (st).
  2. ↑ Died. Alexei Ivanovich Ajubej . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1993 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Dietrich Strothmann: The Pope and the red world. In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1964
  4. ^ Julia Metger: Heinz Lathe and the "secret channel" of the new Ostpolitik. In: this: Studio Moscow. West German correspondents in the Cold War. Schöningh, Paderborn 2016. pp. 133–138, here pp. 134–135 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Adschubej, Alexej Ivanovich. In: The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government . Biographies A – L ( bundesarchiv.de ).
  6. ^ Sins in Bonn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1964 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Ajubei, Alexei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Аджубей, Алексей Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet journalist, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Samarkand , Uzbek SSR
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1993
Place of death Moscow