Heinrich Goeres

Heinrich Goeres (born May 17, 1912 in Berlin ; † September 30, 1978 ) was a German journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the GDR weekly newspaper Sonntag .

Life

Goeres, son of a journalist, learned after high school, first the profession of graphic designer and in 1930 a volunteer, later editor of the Central Office of the German press . In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

After the National Socialists came to power , Goeres lost his position in 1933 because of his membership in the KPD. He supported the party even after the ban on communist activities in illegality. From 1939 to 1944 he was employed as a commercial artist in a Berlin advertising company.

In April 1941 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht , but for racist reasons he was released as a so-called half-barier after two months. In 1944 he was again conscripted and until the end of World War II in a labor camp of the Organization Todt held.

After the end of the war, Goeres first settled in West Berlin and in 1945 became an employee in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf district office . In the same year he switched back to journalism and worked for the newspaper Der Berliner , which was published at times by the British military administration. Here Goeres took on his first management functions and was temporarily responsible for the newspaper's picture editing.

In 1946 Goeres became deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Sonntag , which appeared from 1946 to 1990 with a circulation of 200,000 and was published by the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . In 1949 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and, as successor to Carl Helfrich , became the newspaper's editor-in-chief. In 1955 he was replaced.

Then Goeres was a freelance writer for the magazines Voice of the Patriots and Free World and published short stories. He was a member of the GDR Writers' Association .

literature

• Andreas Herbst :  Heinrich Goeres . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Heinrich Goeres . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 , KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .