Georg Grasnick
Georg Grasnick (born April 25, 1927 in Berlin ; † May 12, 2016 ) was a German journalist . He was the director of the Berliner Rundfunk and editor-in-chief of the Deutschlandsender .
Life
Grasnick, son of a car locksmith, attended elementary school and high school with Notabitur . From 1943 to 1945 he did military service in the Wehrmacht .
After the Second World War , he joined the KPD in 1945 and joined the Antifa youth . He initially worked as a courier and employee. In 1945 he became deputy district mayor in Berlin-Reinickendorf . In 1946 he became a member of the SED with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD, and from 1946 to 1952 he was a volunteer or assistant editor at the Berliner Rundfunk . From 1953 to 1958 he was deputy group leader and editor-in-chief and, in 1958, acting director of the Berliner Rundfunk. He completed a distance learning course at the journalism faculty of the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig in 1958 as a qualified journalist and in 1962 he obtained a doctorate with distinction at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (IfG) .
From 1962 to 1965 he was editor-in-chief of the German broadcaster . On May 30, 1963 he was arrested with Hans Teubner during a stay in Solingen for agitational broadcasts in accordance with the forbidden KPD and released back to the GDR on June 22, 1963 after three weeks in prison. From 1965 to 1971 he was a member of the management of the State Secretariat for all German and West German issues. From 1971 he was then head of department at the Institute for Politics and Economics of the GDR (IPW). He was a member of the Peace Council of the GDR , from 1982 deputy director of the IPW and from October 11, 1982 vice president of the GDR Committee for European Security and Cooperation . In 1979 he was appointed full professor at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (AfG).
After the fall of the Wall in the GDR , he did voluntary work for the non-profit association Volkssolidarität and he worked in the association Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity .
Grasnick died at the age of 89.
Awards
- 1963 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1987 in gold
- 1964 German Peace Medal
- 1965 Franz Mehring badge of honor
- 1974 and 1981 Order Banners of Labor
Publications
- On the relationship between the power centers USA - EU. In: Does the West still exist on the question of war or peace? Contributions to the 12th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 14, 2004. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers , Dresden 2004, issue 69, pp. 49–55.
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. 92.
- Kirsten Nies: Grasnick, Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR committee advocates disarmament . In: Neues Deutschland , October 12, 1982, p. 2.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of May 21, 2016, p. 14.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grasnick, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2016 |