Heinz Adameck
Heinrich "Heinz" Adameck (* December 21, 1921 in Silberhausen ; † December 23, 2010 ) was chairman of the State Committee for Television of the GDR from 1968 to 1989 . He was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .
Life
After attending elementary school and training as a businessman, Adameck worked as a warehouse clerk in a paper goods factory from 1939 to 1940. During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1944 (most recently with the rank of corporal) and was then a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949 . There he was active in the National Committee for Free Germany .
After his return to Germany he joined the SED and worked in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior. At the beginning of the 1950s he was head of the management department of the State Broadcasting Committee, since 1952 a member of the General Directorate of Broadcasting and from 1954 to 1968 as the successor to Gerhard Probst director of the German television broadcasting company .
From 1956 to 1960 he completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law, where he graduated as a law graduate. From 1959 to 1968 he was deputy chairman of the State Broadcasting Committee.
From 1963 to 1989 Adameck was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and President of the Association of Film and Television Professionals, at the same time he was active on the board of the Association of German Journalists , of which he was deputy chairman from 1967 to 1972. In 1968 Adameck became chairman of the State Committee for Television and in 1971 a member of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Ministry of State Security . As such, he was responsible for the political orientation of GDR television for many years.
Adameck received the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1964 and 1971, the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1981 and the Karl Marx Order in 1986 . In 1990 he retired as a result of the turning point, his short-term successor was Hans Bentzien .
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Adameck, Heinrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Supervisors and fitters in Adlershof. Heinz Adameck, once head of GDR television, is dead . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 29, 2011.
- ↑ Adameck dead . In: Junge Welt , February 1, 2011, p. 13.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Adameck, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adameck, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chairman of the State Committee for Television (1968–1989), member of the Central Committee of the SED |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silberhausen , Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 2010 |