Ernst Berends

Ernst Berends (born October 20, 1901 in Zehdenick ; † January 17, 1975 in West Berlin ) was a German journalist and from 1946 to 1948 editor-in-chief of the Märkische Volksstimme newspaper .

Life

Berends, the son of a blacksmith , started an apprenticeship as a printer after secondary school and worked in this profession until 1920. At the same time he attended a teacher training college and in 1920 became a newspaper editor . Until 1932 he worked for the newspapers Z ehdenicker Tageblatt , Laubaner Latest News and Neumärkische Daily News and was temporarily an employee of the press office of the Police President of Berlin.

In 1920 Berends became a member of the Book Printers Association and the Reich Association of the German Press and in 1926 joined the DDP . In 1931 he switched to the SPD . From 1933 Berends worked as a commercial clerk in Berlin, was drafted into the German Wehrmacht in 1940 and fought in World War II until 1945 . In early 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British , but was released after the war.

Berends returned to Germany and became a member of the SED in 1946 . Until February 1946 he worked as an employee of the Charlottenburger Wasser- und Industriewerke AG and then became editor of the SPD newspaper Märker, from which the SED newspaper Märkische Volksstimme emerged , of which Berends was editor-in-chief from 1946 to 1948 (together with the former KPD member Walter Franze ).

In 1948 Berends left for West Germany and then no longer appeared in journalism. He died in West Berlin in 1975 .

literature

• Andreas Herbst :  Ernst Berends . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Journalists and journalism in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-36205-8 .