Emil Dusiska
Emil Dusiška (born April 27, 1914 in Berlin ; † December 24, 2002 in Todtmoos ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), journalist and university lecturer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1967 to 1979 he was director of the journalism section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and at times a member of the agitation commission at the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED . From 1972 to 1982 he was also Secretary Generalthe International Association for the Study of Mass Communication (IAMCR) at the United Nations (UN).
Life
Dusiška, the son of a worker, started an apprenticeship as a stone and offset printer after finishing secondary school in 1930 . In 1927 he became a member of the Christian Kinderfreunde and in 1929 the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). For this he was educational chairman and member of the district board of Berlin-Lichtenberg . After the takeover of the Nazis and the banning of the SAJ in June 1933 made Dusiška illegal resistance work . Until 1939 he worked as an unskilled worker, calculator, secretary, buyer and department manager and then became chief dispatcher and operations manager of a large Berlin printing company.
After the end of the Second World War , Dusiška became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1946 the SED. From June to November 1945 he was district councilor for economics and from December 1945 to November 1948 deputy of the city councilor for economics in Berlin-Friedrichshain . In May 1948 he became director of the city council and deputy head of the economics department in the city council of Greater Berlin, and from December 1948 to July 1950 he was director of the economics department of the East Berlin magistrate .
In 1949/50 Dusiška attended the SED party college “Karl Marx” and then became head of the economics department of the SED central organ New Germany . From 1955 to 1965 he was an employee and member of the agitation commission at the Central Committee of the SED.
1965 Dusiška was at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the SED (IFG) graduated and was in the same year professor with full lecturer in "Theory and practice of socialist press being" at the University of Leipzig . From 1967 to 1979 he was dean of the journalism faculty and director of the journalism section . In addition, since 1968 he was a member of the Presidium of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ) and the International Association for Research into Mass Communication (IAMCR) at the UN. From 1972 to 1982 he was its general secretary.
Honors
- 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit (GDR)
- 1958 Labor banner (GDR)
- 1964 Artur Becker Medal in Gold (GDR)
literature
- Ingrid Kirschey-Feix : Emil Dusiska . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Gunter Holzweißig: Mass media in the GDR. In: Jürgen Wilke (ed.): Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cologne et al. 1999.
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Dusiska in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Dusiska In: Professor Catalog of the University of Leipzig / Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium , published by the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig, 2014.
- Emil Dusiška, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 17, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulbricht's shadow grows bigger The GDR in its thirtieth year: Forward to the past. In: Der Spiegel , issue 40/1979, Hamburg, October 1, 1979.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dusiska, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dusiška, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, university professor and politician (SED) in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 2002 |
| Place of death | Dead moss |