Hans Brandt (journalist)
Hans Brandt (born February 19, 1928 in Stettin ; † May 23, 2018 ) was a German journalist in the GDR . From 1971 to 1989 he was editor-in-chief of the Schweriner Volkszeitung (SVZ).
Life
Brandt, the son of a commercial employee , was drafted as an air force helper after completing elementary and trade school in 1944 and fought in World War II . In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States , from which he was released in December of the same year.
Brandt worked on his parents' new farm in Mustin until October 1946 and became a member of the SED in 1946 . Until 1947 he was a telephone operator for the SED state management in Mecklenburg in Schwerin and from 1948 to 1950 he was an instructor for the SED state association. In 1951 he became head of department at the SED district leadership in Schwerin.
From January to March 1952 Brandt was an operations assistant at the German Central Bank in Schwerin and then until July 1952 secretary of the SED company party organization at the state broadcaster Schwerin. From 1952 Brandt was an editor at the Schweriner Volkszeitung (SVZ), which in the GDR was the district organ of the SED for the Schwerin district .
Brandt completed a distance learning course at the Faculty of Journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig by 1960 and became a qualified journalist. From 1961 to 1968 and from 1969 to 1971 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the SVZ. In 1969 Brandt completed a further course of studies at the Karl Marx party college of the SED and became editor-in-chief of the SVZ on March 16, 1971, as the successor to Ernst Parchmann .
From May 1971 to 1989 Brandt was a member of the SED district leadership in Schwerin and from 1972 to 1989 chairman of the district association Schwerin and member of the central board of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ). After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Brandt lost all functions.
Hans Brandt was a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) and most recently lived in Banzkow . Hans Brandt died at the age of 90.
Awards
- 1973 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1978 Order Banner of Labor Level I
- 1988 VDJ journalist award
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. 31.
- Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Journalists and journalism in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-36205-8 .
- Andreas Herbst : Hans Brandt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Hans Brandt at www.erinnerungsbibliothek-ddr.de (accessed on January 15, 2019).
Individual evidence
- ↑ We mourn our deceased members . In: akzente (GBM monthly) No. 07/2018.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Schweriner Volkszeitung from June 2, 2018 (accessed on January 15, 2019).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 26, 1978, p. 6.
- ↑ Journalists honored . In: Neue Zeit , March 5, 1988, p. 1.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandt, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and editor-in-chief |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 May 2018 |