Bruno Mahlow junior

Bruno Mahlow (born June 27, 1937 in Moscow ) is a German former SED functionary and diplomat of the GDR.

Life

Mahlow was born in Moscow as the son of the KPD functionary Bruno Mahlow (1899–1964) who had emigrated to the Soviet Union . He returned to Berlin with the family in 1947. Mahlow attended high school and then the workers and farmers faculty in Halle (Saale) , where he graduated from high school in 1955 . He then studied at the Institute for International Relations in Moscow from 1955 to 1961 and graduated with a degree in political science. In 1957 he joined the SED.

After completing his studies, he joined the diplomatic service of the GDR. From 1962 to 1964 he was an employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR and from 1964 to 1967 first secretary of the GDR embassy in Beijing .

From 1967 he worked as an employee, from August 1973 to November 1989 as deputy head of department and then until December 1989 as head of the international relations department of the Central Committee of the SED. Since May 1976 he was a candidate and since April 1981 a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED. From 1981 to 1989 he was also a member of the Foreign Policy Commission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1990 he was an advisor to the International Commission at the PDS party executive .

From 1974 to 1989 he was also a member of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship , and from 1985 to 1989 he was deputy chairman of the GDR-China Friendship Committee.

Mahlow is a member of the elders' council of Die Linke . He is one of the permanent authors of the communist-socialist monthly " RotFuchs ".

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1974), in silver (1976) and in gold (1987)

Publications

• In my own name. Marx and lessons for the present , edition ost, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3-947094-31-8 .
• Cheers to the Russians and the revolution. Texts from 2012 to 2017 , (collection of articles), verlag am park, berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-947094-00-4 .
• We stand in history and therefore have a responsibility. Texts 2004 to 2012. Edition Ost, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89793-285-2
• (overall scientific editing): International labor movement and revolutionary struggle in the present . Dietz, Berlin 1973.
• (Leadership of the collective of authors): Communist movement and revolutionary struggle . Dietz, Berlin 1979.
• (together with Götz Dieckmann ): Introduction to Lenin's work “Two tactics of social democracy in the democratic revolution” . Dietz, Berlin 1980 (5th edition, 1989).
• (together with Harald Neubert ): The communists and their interaction . Dietz, Berlin 1983.

items

• Lenin on the correct connection between the national and the international in the politics of the communist parties I / II . In: Einheit , Vol. 25 (1970) Heft 4, p. 472ff. and booklet 5, p. 662ff.
• Working class against monopoly capital . In: Einheit , Vol. 26 (1971), Issue 9, pp. 1007-1016.
• The responsibility of the communists for security in Europe. Change from Cold War to Relaxation . In: Militärwesen (1974), Issue 9, pp. 11-18.
• The communists - the most decisive force in the struggles of our time . In: Einheit , Jg. 40 (1985), Heft 3, pp. 251-257.
• The highest imperative: permanent turn towards relaxation. In: horizont , vol. 20 (1987), issue 11, pp. 3-5.
• In a socialist way. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China . In: Einheit , Vol. 44 (1989), Issue 9/10, pp. 947-952.
• The EU enlargement: Problems and opportunities? (Presentation at the December 2003 Peace Council). On the website of the Peace Research Group at the University of Kassel.
• EU-Russia: “Cracks in the Common House” (Presentation at the December 2004 Peace Council). On the website of the Peace Research Group at the University of Kassel.

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 199.
• Werner Meissner (Hrsg.): The GDR and China 1949 to 1990. Politics, economy, culture . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, passim.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 505.
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1023.
• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Mahlow, Bruno . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Nothing and nobody is forgotten, How the emigrant child Bruno Mahlow experienced the German attack on the Soviet Union and the liberation in 1945 , conversation with Bruno Mahlow in: Neues Deutschland , May 5, 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Mahlow junior in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of May 24, 1976.
2. ↑ New Germany of April 17, 1981.