Gerhard Gleißberg

Gerhard Gleißberg (born July 27, 1905 in Breslau , † February 19, 1973 in Torremolinos ) was a German politician and journalist ( SPD , later DFU ).

job

Gerhard Gleißberg studied philosophy, German and English during the Weimar Republic . He received his doctorate in 1927 as Dr. phil. and worked as a freelancer for the Vossische Zeitung and various social democratic papers.

In 1933 he emigrated to Prague and worked for the SPD's exile organization, the Sopade . After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia , he fled to London . There he was appointed editor-in-chief of the social democratic socialist communications together with Wilhelm Sander .

After 1945 he worked for the Neue Vorwärts , which he led from 1948 to 1955 as editor-in-chief . After 1955 he founded the left-wing socialist Andere Zeitung (AZ) and was its editor-in-chief for 14 years. After hiring the AZ, he worked as a permanent editor of the Deutsche Volkszeitung from 1970 until his death .

Political career

Gerhard Gleißberg was a member of the SPD before 1933. Due to the establishment of the Other Newspaper , he was expelled from the party in 1956. In 1956 he was a member of the board of directors of the German section of the short-lived International Society for Socialist Studies . In 1960 Gleißberg was a founding member of the German Peace Union and served temporarily a. a. as a member of the federal advisory board, the federal executive committee and as state chairman of the party. He was on the Central Committee of the Association of Independent Socialists

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Gleißberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Nilius: “Forward, don't forget.” Remembering Gerhard Gleißberg, who was not an obituary person for the SPD, Ossietzky-Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red and pink (see cover picture) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1961 ( online ).
2. ^ Socialist books, No. 11, Hamburg November 1968, reports, p. 643