Claus Friedrich

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Claus Friedrich (born February 27, 1929 in Witten ; † April 21, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and trade union official in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1975 to 1981 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) Tribüne .

Life

Friedrich, son of a businessman, learned the trade of bricklayer after graduating from middle school . In 1946/47 he completed an editorial traineeship in the Berlin capital office of the Weimar newspaper Abendpost . Then he went to the daily newspaper of the FDGB Tribüne , which appeared on working days with a circulation of up to 400,000 copies throughout the GDR. In 1954 he was promoted to head of department, in 1966 to a member of the editor-in-chief, then called the editors' collective, and in 1967 to deputy editor-in-chief. In 1972 he became acting editor-in-chief of the newspaper in 1975, as successor to Waldemar Pose , which he remained until 1981.

In 1952 Friedrich became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1954 to 1960 Friedrich completed a distance learning course at the Faculty of Journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he graduated with a degree in journalism. From 1963 to 1966 he earned a diploma in social sciences at the SED's "Karl Marx" party college .

In addition, from 1975 until the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989 , Friedrich was an employee and member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB and from 1975 to 1981 also a member of its executive committee.

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SURNAME Friedrich, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tribüne
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1990
Place of death Berlin