Hans-Dieter Kruger
Hans-Dieter Krüger (born March 10, 1930 in Penzig , Görlitz district , today Poland ; † February 11, 2012 ) was a German journalist in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1967 to 1989 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Freiheit .
Life
Krüger, son of a worker, attended elementary school and learned the trades of motor fitter and electrical installer. In 1948 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and employee of the youth department of the Saxony-Anhalt regional association of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) in Halle (Saale) .
From 1948 to 1952 Krüger was editor in the district editorial office of the newspaper Tribüne in Halle and in 1952 he became editor of the Freedom , which was the official district organ of the SED. Until 1953, Krüger was head of the editorial department of the newspaper Freie Erde in Neustrelitz . In 1953 and 1954 he was first a pupil, then a teacher and then a course director at the special school of the Central Committee of the SED for journalists in Leipzig . At the same time he completed a distance learning course at the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Leipzig . In 1956, Krüger graduated as a journalist.
From 1955 Krüger was again the editor of Freedom and rose first to head of department, then to deputy editor-in-chief and in 1967, as successor to Günther Bobach , to editor-in-chief. From 1969 to 1989 he was also a member of the SED district leadership in Halle and from 1955 to 1989 chairman of the Halle district association of the GDR's Association of Journalists . There Krüger was from 1967 to 1972 and again from June 1982 a member of the presidium of the central board.
In the course of the political change and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Krüger lost all functions in November 1989. Later he worked as a freelancer.
Awards
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (GDR)
- 1980 Order Banner of Labor Level I (GDR)
- 1987 Journalist Prize of the FDGB (GDR)
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. 178.
- Andreas Herbst : Hans-Dieter Krüger . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Journalists and journalism in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-36205-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Dieter Krüger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Winner of the journalist award . In: Neues Deutschland , June 16, 1987, p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruger, Hans-Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Penzing , district of Görlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 2012 |