Günter Bartsch

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Günter Bartsch (born February 13, 1927 in Neumarkt in Silesia ; † July 25, 2006 ) was a German author . His work covered political issues, including Marxism , anarchism , free economics, and right-wing radicalism .

Life

Bartsch was born in Neumarkt, Lower Silesia , and grew up there in a poor district. After attending primary school , he completed an apprenticeship in public administration and graduated with an economics and administration diploma. In 1944 and 1945 he did his military service and took part in World War II . At the age of 18, he returned to Germany in July 1945 after a brief Dutch captivity. In the post-war years he worked in commercial professions and headed the youth union in the Peine district.

In 1947 Bartsch became a member of the KPD . In Peine he was city secretary of the KPD from 1947 to 1950. From 1948 to the end of 1949 he was youth secretary of the KPD in Lower Saxony, then for a short time 2nd chairwoman of the FDJ in Lower Saxony and youth editor of the newspaper Truth . After the suppression of the popular uprising of June 17 in the GDR, he turned away from communism and worked as a freelance journalist, writer and contemporary historian from 1962 after several years in banking and studying history in Freiburg im Breisgau . In his books and writings he mainly dealt with socio-political issues. Between 1966 and 1975 he wrote various essays on the social movements of socialism, communism and anarchism, which were published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

In 1975 he published the book "Revolution von Rechts" about the " New Right " in the period after the 1968 revolt , which attracted widespread attention. He later came to ecosophy via a spiritual excursion into anthroposophy , became a co-founder of an “ecosophical world movement” and a temporary companion of Baldur Springmann .

Günter Bartsch spent the last years of his life with his partner Helga Leihberg on the Baltic Sea . There he wrote and completed a previously unpublished autobiography .

Fonts

literature

  • Werner Onken : Günter Bartsch. (PDF) Circular Christians for a Just Economic Order, December 2006, pp. 10/11 , accessed on October 1, 2015 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner, Adieu, you cities: the longing for a more homely world , Herder 1977, p. 190.
  2. Jump up ↑ Peter Boris, Who split off: Keywords on the life and work of 461 ex-communists and dissidents , Markus-Verlag 1983, p. 35.
  3. ↑ a b Konrad Löw, Peter Eisenmann, Angelica Stoll, Betrogene Hoffnung: from testimony of former communists , Sinus-Verlag 1978, p. 127.
  4. ^ Die Neue Gesellschaft 11 (1964), p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2006