Gerhard Probst

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During a visit by the Deputy Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Gerhard Probst (right) on December 16, 1966, chief engineer Professor Gerhard Frost (2nd from right) explained the continuation of the work on the construction site of the Berlin television tower .

Gerhard Probst (born October 1, 1912 in Beiersdorf , Upper Lusatia , † February 21, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German radio official and deputy minister for post and telecommunications in the GDR .

Life

Probst, the son of a locksmith , learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of precision mechanic , attended the college for precision mechanics and electrical engineering in Dresden and qualified as an engineer. Probst was a member of the Workers' Radio Association .

From 1946 to 1951 he was sound engineer and technical director at MDR , state broadcaster Dresden, and from 1951/52 chief engineer and head of the main technology department at the general directorate of broadcasting, then until 1956 at the state broadcasting committee of the GDR. From November 1953 to July 1954 he headed the television center in Berlin-Adlershof as the successor to Hermann Zilles . From 1956 to 1974 he was Deputy Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Radio and Television. During his tenure, color television was introduced in the GDR in October 1969 , but the SECAM system was used , unlike in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Probst was also chairman of the technical commission of the Organization Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (OIRT).

Probst was a member of the SED .

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 263.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 669.
  • Claudia Dittmar: Hostile television. GDR television and its strategies in dealing with West German television . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-837-61434-3 , passim.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Probst, who was recorded in Waibel (2011) and was born on August 4, 1912 and was briefly a member of the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 402.593) in the Gau of Silesia, is a different person. See 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. 254.
  2. ↑ Susanne Vollberg: Between experiment and establishment. The program development of GDR television 1958 to 1963 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-208-5 , p. 72.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Pfeil: The "other" Franco-German relations. The GDR and France 1949–1990 . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-04403-2 , p. 336
personal data
SURNAME Probst, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and radio functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Beiersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2002
Place of death Berlin