Carl Guggomos

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Carl Luitpold Guggomos (also called "Charly", * 1932  ? † March 16, 1988 ) was a German journalist , editor , activist of the extra-parliamentary opposition .

Life

Guggomos was initially a member of the SPD and editor of Vorwärts , later at Spiegel .

In 1966, Guggomos was suspected in the SPD of being the mastermind of a campaign against Herbert Wehner , together with other Vorwärts employees ( Alexander von Cube , Adalbert Wiemers and Ekkehart Wiemers ) .

From 1967 he was editor-in-chief and publisher of the Berlin EXTRA newspaper, which was initially financed by Rudolf Augstein and Gerd Bucerius . This resulted in the Berliner Extra-Dienst . Up until the 1970s, the extra service, financed by the GDR State Security , was an important organ of the extra-parliamentary opposition .

In 1966, Guggomos founded the November Society together with Horst Mahler , Walter Barthel , Klaus Meschkat , Johannes Agnoli and other SPD leftists and SDS members against the will of the SDS regional association in Berlin, from which the Republican Club emerged on April 30, 1967 . Guggomos distanced himself from it a year later, "because only tendency anarchism would be heard in the club". He moved his office from the premises of the club and ran a combination of cabaret , print shop , pub and the Ost- boutique in the new domicile with Barthel and other friends .

For the winter semester of 1972 he was given a teaching position for journalism at the Free University of Berlin in protest of the West Berlin CDU .

Because the Extra-Dienst was fighting parts of SPD politics, the Berlin SPD applied for exclusion from the party in 1973 .

At the time of his editorial work at Berliner Extra-Dienst, Guggomos (IM Gustav ) and "ed" managing directors Walter Barthel (IM Kurt ) were unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security , Barthel until 1969. The MfS provided material and journalistic articles for campaigns against Axel Springer and against the 1969 federal presidential election in West Berlin.

In 1978 Guggomos and Barthel founded the left-wing socialist daily Die Neue , of which Guggomos became editor-in-chief. The newspaper existed until 1982 and competed with the taz, which was founded at the same time .

In 1993 he was exposed as an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dreamed ahead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1968, pp. 67 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b Evgeny (Schenja) Evtushenko . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1972 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b c Meeting on the park bench . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1991 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Wehner. Leap forward. Der Spiegel, March 21, 1966
  5. ↑ a b Jochen Kummer: The Stasi was in Springer's office. In: Welt Online. April 1, 2001, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ EXTRA-DIENST GMBH: EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE WANT "DISAPPROPRIATION". In: Berliner Extradienst. February 5, 1969. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Brief history of the SDS , Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 1977, ISBN 3-88022-174-X
  8. ↑ Politics IN BRIEF - Hamburger Abendblatt from March 20, 1973 ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ How East Berlin mobilized against Axel Springer Verlag , Welt Online, March 23, 2001
  10. ^ Hubertus Knabe: Front City Berlin. The secret propaganda campaigns of the Stasi. P. 35 , accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Alfons Söllner : Totalitarianism: A history of ideas of the 20th century, p. 276
personal data
SURNAME Guggomos, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guggomos, Carl Luitpold; Guggomos, Charly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, APO activist, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1988