Heinrich Bruhn

Heinrich Bruhn (born January 29, 1913 in Nesserdeich , today Groven , in Norderdithmarschen , † November 18, 1986 in Leipzig ) was a German journalist .

Life

Heinrich Georg Wilhelm Bruhn was born on January 29, 1913, to Elisabeth Bruhn and Gustav Bruhn in Nesserdeich. In 1928 he began a commercial apprenticeship. From 1931 he worked as a travel agent for the German-Russian Transport and Trading Company in Hamburg . In 1934 he married Edith Cornehl. From 1935 he worked as a transport controller for the commercial agency of the Soviet Union in Hamburg. In 1936 he was arrested together with his wife Edith and his mother for preparation for high treason and taken to the Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbüttel . After his release from prison in 1939, he worked as a travel agent for a forwarding company in Berlin. In 1943 he was sent to the front and then became a prisoner of war. His parents were murdered on February 14, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp .

After the war Heinrich Bruhn lived in the GDR . He joined the KPD and the FDGB in 1945 . From 1945 to 1946 he was head of the company police at the Mansfeld plants in Hettstedt . He then attended the state party school of the SED Saxony-Anhalt. From 1948 to 1949 he worked for the newspaper Freiheit in Halle (Saale) , in 1950 as a teacher at various SED party schools.

From 1951 to 1952 Heinrich Bruhn was Professor of History of the CPSU at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig , from 1953 to 1956 Professor of the History of Russian Journalism and the Bolshevik Press at the Philosophical Faculty and the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Leipzig.

He was also a member of the People's Chamber from 1954 to 1958 and studied social sciences at the party college of the CPSU from 1956 to 1959 .

From 1955 to 1969 he was Professor of the History of Russian Journalism at the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Leipzig and from 1969 to 1977 Professor of the History of German Journalism at the Journalism Section of the University of Leipzig. In 1963 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Heinrich Bruhn died on November 18, 1986.

Web links

• Heinrich Bruhn in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Heinrich Bruhn, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 19, 2017
• Dithmarscher Landeszeitung from August 12, 2011

Selection of publications

• (Ed.) The German Press during the Fascist Dictatorship, 1933–45, Leipzig 1978.
• (Ed.) Bibliography of the periodicals of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1976, Leipzig 1977.
• (Ed. Since 1969) Contributions to the history of German journalism, Leipzig.
• (Eds.) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as journalists, Leipzig 1970.