Gerhard Dengler

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Gerhard Dengler (born May 24, 1914 in Reinhausen (Gleichen) ; † January 3, 2007 in Hennigsdorf ) was a German journalist and Vice President of the National Council of the National Front .

Life

Dengler was the son of the rector of the Eberswalde Forest Academy , Alfred Dengler . He studied journalism from 1934 to 1939. Between 1935 and 1937 he did his military service with Artillery Regiment 3 in Frankfurt (Oder) . On May 1, 1937, he was accepted into the NSDAP . Dengler was also a member of the SA , having been a member of the Jung Stahlhelm since 1932 .

In 1939 he received his doctorate shortly before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . His unit took part both in the attack on Poland and in the campaign against France . Here he was temporarily site commander of Autun . As a captain in the Wehrmacht, he took part in the battle of Stalingrad . He and his unit surrendered separately in early 1943 and then became a member of the National Committee for Free Germany . Decades later he said in an interview on Deutschlandfunk : My bourgeois, traditional outlook and attitude towards this bourgeois society in which I grew up was burned in Stalingrad .

In 1946 he became a member of the SED in the Soviet occupation zone . First he worked for the Saxon newspaper in Dresden . In 1948 he moved to Leipzig, where he became editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Volkszeitung for a few weeks . From November 1948 to May 1949 he was editor-in-chief of the DEFA weekly newsreel Der Augenzeuge . He then moved to the editorial office of New Germany . From 1953 to 1958 he worked as a correspondent in Bonn for the central organ of the SED . Returned to Berlin in 1958 Dengler became chief commentator for the German broadcaster ; he replaced Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler . In 1959 he joined the bureau of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front as deputy chairman .

In 1966 he was appointed Vice President of the National Council of the National Front. He held this office until 1969. From 1962 to 1967 he was head of the Braunbuch working group , war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and Berlin (West) in the National Council. In 1969 he then moved to the German Academy for Political Science and Law , where he worked as head of the international information section until he reached retirement age in 1979. In 1961 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1964 in silver. In 1989 he was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.

Gerhard Dengler joined the PDS in 1990 and was active until the end of his life in the Association of Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the movement "Free Germany" (DRAFD) eV.

Fonts

  • Two lives in one , Berlin, East German military publisher , 1989
  • Lots of bumps in the helmet. My life as an SED official , Books-on-demand, 2000
  • Brown book. War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West) with a conversation with the head of the working group at the time, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dengler (Ed. Norbert Podewin), reprint of the 1968 edition, edition ost, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01033-7

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 68.
  2. ↑ to: Many bumps in my helmet, p. 7
  3. ↑ Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Gerhard Dengler . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , October 6, 1961, p. 3
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 17, 1964, p. 4
  6. ^ Neue Zeit, October 3, 1989, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Dengler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, Vice President of the National Front
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinhausen (same)
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2007
Place of death Hennigsdorf