Harri Czepuck
Harri Czepuck (born July 30, 1927 in Breslau ; † June 14, 2015 ) was a German journalist and SED functionary. He was chairman of the Association of Journalists of the GDR and deputy editor-in-chief of the SED central organ New Germany .
Life
Czepuck completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman . From 1944 to 1945 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht . On April 30, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and later by the Polish prisoners of war near Halbe . From January 1949 he was editor of the German prisoner of war newspaper Die Brücke .
In June 1949 he was released into the Soviet zone of occupation and joined the SED there . He began as a trainee at " Neues Deutschland ", where he became editor, department head, correspondent in Bonn and, in January 1966, deputy editor-in-chief. From 1967 to 1971 he was a member of the Western Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1967 to January 1981 he was chairman of the Association of German Journalists, which was renamed the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ) on June 23, 1972 . At the same time he was Vice President of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) based in Prague.
At the beginning of October 1971 he was replaced as deputy editor-in-chief of the ND due to conflicts with the editor-in-chief Joachim Herrmann and now full-time chairman of the journalists' association of the GDR. From 1981 he worked at the League for Friendship of Nations . In 1984 he became a disability pensioner. In 1990 Czepuck remained a member of the SED, which was renamed PDS . He was a member of the council of elders of the party Die Linke .
Czepuck died at the age of 87.
Awards
- 1962 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1970 Order Banner of Labor
- 1977 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
Works
- 1967–1970: Me - Axel Caesar Springer (TV, 5 parts, screenplay with Karl Georg Egel ) - Directors: Helmut Krätzig , Ingrid Sander, Achim Hübner
- My turning times. Memories, considerations, expectations . Dietz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-320-01971-6 .
- (with Hans Bentzien , Gerhard Fischer, Günter Herlt , Klaus Huhn , Friedrich Wolff , Wolfgang Wünsche ) Questions to the GDR . Edition Ost, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-360-01045-0 .
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Czepuck, Harri . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Harri Czepuck: Culture in Obóz Pracy . In: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): … The beginning of a new era. Memories of the beginnings of our cultural revolution 1945–1949 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1981, p. 118-123 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Harri Czepuck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Harri Czepuck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/974582.mit-respekt.html
- ^ Journal "S + T" (Sport and Technology) No. 5/1979
- ^ New Germany of January 11, 1966
- ^ New Germany of January 10, 1981
- ^ New Germany from October 4, 1971
- ^ Obituaries from the family and the management of the ND . In: Neues Deutschland , June 20, 2015, p. 6.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czepuck, Harri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and SED functionary, chairman of the GDR journalists' association |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2015 |