Dieter Heinze
Dieter Heinze (* 7. August 1928 in Breslau , † 3. March 2005 ) was a cultural functionary and diplomat of the GDR , among others 1969-1973 State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and 1973-1977 Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO was .
Life
Dieter Heinze joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) while attending school in 1946 and shortly afterwards the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED . In addition, he was a member of the district leadership of the Free German Youth (FDJ) in the Döbeln district . After graduating from high school in 1947, he studied economics at the University of Leipzig between 1947 and 1951. During his studies between 1947 and 1949 he acted as secretary for culture and education of the FDJ management of the University of Leipzig and after completing his studies in 1951 initially worked as a school advisor at the Association of German Consumer Cooperatives (VdK), before becoming deputy between 1952 and 1958 Director and department head at the Central House for Folk Art in Leipzig . At the same time he acted as secretary of the Presidium for all-German amateur and folk art and from 1956 to 1958 as an employee of the SED district leadership in Leipzig.
In 1959 Heinze moved to the Culture Department of the SED Central Committee and was first an instructor and, between 1960 and 1962, head of the Literature Section, before he was finally deputy head of the Central Committee Culture Department from 1963 to 1969. In 1969 he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and held this office until 1973. In 1973 he replaced Heinz Jung as Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in Paris and remained in this position until 1977, when Siegfried Kämpf took over from there. After his return he was appointed professor in 1977 as 1st Deputy Director General of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR and held this post until 1985. Most recently, between 1985 and 1990, he was director of the department of the Academy of Arts for national research and memorial sites of the GDR for German art and literature of the 20th century. In 1990 he took early retirement .
Publications
- Cultural-political tasks after the 7th Party Congress , in: The Party Worker , co-author Gerd Rossow, Berlin 1968
- Speech at the directors' conference on January 14, 1971 in Berlin , Berlin 1971
- Konrad Wolf in dialogue. Arts & Politics , co-editor Ludwig Hoffmann, Berlin 1985
Background literature
- The DH case , in: Matthias Braun : Culture island and instrument of power. The Academy of Arts, the Party and the State Security , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35049-2
Web links
- Beatrice Vierneisel : Heinze, Dieter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Literature by and about Dieter Heinze in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The head of the Central Committee's Culture Department was Siegfried Wagner between 1957 and 1966 and Arno Hochmuth from 1966 to 1972 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinze, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and cultural functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2005 |