Dieter Langguth

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Dieter Langguth (born January 2, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German former FDJ and SED functionary. From 1977 to 1984 he was editor-in-chief of the FDJ central organ Junge Welt .

Life

Langguth was born in Leipzig as the son of a worker and grew up there. He attended the extended secondary school in the GDR , where he graduated from high school in 1955. He then served in the barracked People's Police until 1957 or, after its conversion, in the National People's Army . At that time there was no conscription in the GDR, but youths loyal to the line were “voluntarily” delegated to the “armed organs”. After completing his military service, Langguth completed a one-year traineeship at the SED newspaper Das Volk , Nordhausen editorial team , before starting to study at the Faculty of Journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1958 . In 1960 he was an intern at Junge Welt , where he started as an editor after graduating in 1962. The daily newspaper Junge Welt (JW) was at that time one of the highest circulation daily newspapers in the GDR with a daily circulation of almost 300,000 copies. In 1977 Langguth was appointed editor-in-chief of Junge Welt as the successor to Klaus Raddatz after holding positions as head of department (1964) and as deputy editor-in-chief (1971) . From 1977 to 1984 Langguth was a member of the office and secretary in the Central Council of the FDJ, parallel to his work at Junge Welt .

After his replacement as JW editor-in-chief by Hans-Dieter Schütt , Langguth was deputy head of the agitation department in the Central Committee of the SED from 1984 . He was one of four deputy department heads under Heinz Geggel , and as head of the press department, he was responsible for print products. In this function Langguth played a leading role in the central control and pre-censorship of the media in the GDR. At the meetings (called “Argu”) between the agitation department and the editors-in-chief of the GDR's mass media, which take place every Thursday in the SED Central Committee, these were brought into line. In the summer of 1989 Langguth deposed an editor-in-chief of the NBI and promoted an employee of the agitation department to the post. In September 1989, Langguth threatened the editors of the weekly post at Thursday's meeting with replacing and redesigning the newspaper, which was critical for GDR conditions. Langguth lost this post with the peaceful revolution in the GDR . In 1990 he self-critically accounted for his work and the mass media of the GDR in Stern .

Fonts

  • Resistance in the target village: factual report . Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1971. (With Max Stoll, about an "uprising" in 1945 in Felgentreu , booklet series Tatsachen , No. 121)
  • Uprising in the target village: factual report . Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1971. (With Max Stoll, continuation, series of novels, Tatsachen , No. 122)
  • Dissertation o. T., 1971. (Promotion to Dr. phil. )
  • Homicide squad. May I come inside? Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2006. (With Sigrid Langguth, three crime stories)

literature

  • Gunter Holzweißig: Media control in the SBZ / GDR. On the activities of the Central Committee Agitation Department and the Agitation Commission at the Politburo of the SED . In: Journalism . Volume 39 (1994), No. 1, pp. 58-72.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kirsten Nies:  Langguth, Dieter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ↑ 60 years of the Junge Welt ( memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Part 1. In: Junge Welt from January 13th 2007. (Publisher supplement, here on a private website of a jw journalist)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / andreas-gruenwald.blog.de
  3. ↑ Jasmin Wiedemann: Mitgefangen, Mitgefangen: on the situation of East German women's magazines after the fall of the Wall . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-89325-362-9 , p. 51.
  4. ↑ Dieter Langguth: When you have quark in your brain. Honecker's censor describes the SED's media policy. In: stern , No. 23/1990, pp. 85ff
personal data
SURNAME Langguth, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German FDJ and SED functionary, editor-in-chief of the GDR newspaper Junge Welt (1977–1984)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig