Günter Hennig

Günter Hennig (born March 27, 1928 in Markranstädt ) is a former German publishing director. He headed the SED's own Dietz Verlag .

Life

Hennig came from a working-class family and attended secondary and high school, in 1944/45 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in April / May 1945 in the Wehrmacht . Until December 1945 he remained in US and British captivity .

In 1946 he worked for the Reich Railway Directorate and attended a high school graduate course in Leipzig. In the same year he joined the SPD and became a member of the SED. From 1947 to 1949 he was an editor at the " Leipziger Volkszeitung ". From 1948 to 1951 he studied journalism at the University of Leipzig , graduating as a journalist. From 1951 to 1955 he was assistant and senior assistant with a teaching position at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. From 1955 to 1961 he was an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED. He completed his apprenticeship in 1961 with a dissertation on August Bebel and the German labor movement at the end of the 19th century. In 1961/62 he was a political assistant in the Propaganda Department at the SED Central Committee.

From 1962 to 1990 Hennig was head of Dietz Verlag Berlin. From 1964 to 1989 he was also a member of the board of directors of the German Booksellers Association in Leipzig. In 1990 he took early retirement.

Hennig was a candidate from 1981 and from 1986 to 1990 a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED .

Hennig lives in Berlin and is a member of the Die Linke party and the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity

Fonts

• August Bebel. Mortal enemy of the Prussian-German military state 1891–1899 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963 (dissertation).

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1966), in silver (1969) and in gold, bar of honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold (1988)
• Order Banner of Labor Stage I (1978)
• The Scientific Council of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED awarded Hennig an honorary doctorate on March 25, 1988 (Dr. hc).

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 117.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 302.
• Carsten Wurm, Elke Reuter:  Hennig, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .