Dietrich Nummert

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Dietrich Nummert
Dietrich Nummert and Claudia Melisch at the Petriplatz in Berlin in 2007

Dietrich Karl Nummert (born May 12, 1928 in Mönchengladbach ; † June 28, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and author.

Life

As the son of Luise and Friedrich Nummert, Dietrich Nummert grew up in Insterburg, East Prussia , and first trained as an engine fitter. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , he worked in the Ernst Heinkel aircraft works in Rostock- Marienehe and after the war in the Rostock Neptun shipyard , where he headed a youth brigade . After the war he lived first in Lauenburg / Elbe , then in Berlin , where he worked for Bergmann-Borsig .

Rooted in the working class through his origins and career choices, Dietrich Nummert was interested in art and in the late 1940s led an amateur theater group in Bernburg (Saale) that performed in the Bernburg City Theater. After the war and the Nazi dictatorship, Nummert joined the FDJ and temporarily worked full-time there.

Around 1957, he completed a two-year course in editing at the GDR Journalists' Association in Berlin. From February 1956 he worked in the editorial department of the Junge Welt Berlin publishing house . There he published the biography of Bruno Kühn , Lotte Ulbricht's eldest brother, for the Central Council of the FDJ in 1970 . He also worked for the GDR youth publisher New Life and worked until August 1969 as deputy editor-in-chief of the theory magazine for FDJ functionaries Junge Generation , for which the Central Council of the FDJ awarded him the certificate of honor. From the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1980s, he headed the Berlin “Club of Working People”, where he invited interesting personalities from home and abroad to give lectures and spoiled the guests with culinary specialties.

He then worked as a freelance journalist and wrote for various GDR newspapers. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has regularly written - mostly biographical - articles for the Berlin monthly journal at the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , a journal in the tradition of the Berlin monthly journal of the same name, founded by Biester and Gedike in 1783 , which was published until 2001. Dietrich Nummert showed great interest in the history of Berlin and wrote many portraits of famous Berlin personalities. Since 2007 he has been a regular visitor to the excavations of the archaeologist Claudia Maria Melisch on Berlin's Petriplatz .

Dietrich Nummert lived in Berlin-Friedrichshain until his death . As a result of cancer he died in a hospice in Berlin-Pankow . His grave is in the Alt-Stralau cemetery .

Texts / essays

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the German People's Congress to the National Congress . Secretariat of the National Front of Democratic Germany (Ed.), 1951, p. 94.
  2. ^ Dietrich Nummert: He was a pioneer leader: Life and Struggle of the Berlin Worker Boy Bruno Kühn. Young World Publishing House , Berlin 1970.
  3. ↑ Dietrich Nummert: epilogue and appendix to Bastian, Horst: Barfuß ins Vaterland . Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-355-00332-8 .
  4. ↑ Minutes of the meetings of the Secretariat of the Central Council of the FDJ (SAPMO-BArch, DY 24/6501 and 6502)
  5. ↑ Berlin Monthly Bulletin - Complete Register
personal data
SURNAME Numbers, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nummert, Dietrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2010
Place of death Berlin