Heinz Zöger
Heinz Zöger (born November 19, 1915 in Leipzig ; † March 21, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German journalist . He was married to Carola Stern .
Life
Zöger trained as a typesetter and at the age of 17 became a member of the "Antifascist Red Guard". Zöger was sentenced to prison terms twice after 1933 for his work in the resistance . After the end of the war he became a member of the KPD and then held leading positions in radio in the GDR. From 1955 to autumn 1956 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper " Sonntag ". On March 8, 1957, during the trial of the Harich group , the arrest took place in the courtroom and in July of the same year, together with Walter Janka (then head of the Aufbau Verlag ), Gustav Just and Richard Wolf, they were sentenced to imprisonment until 1959 Dismissed, he fled to Germany. On January 5, 1990, the 1957 judgment was overturned by the GDR Supreme Court . Zöger was an editor at WDR .
literature
- Carola Stern: In the networks of memory: life stories of two people , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1995, ISBN 3-499-12227-8
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Zöger, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Zöger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Erich Loest : Prozesskosten :bericht , Verlag Steidl, 2007, ISBN 3-86521-423-1 , page 33
- ^ Heinz Zöger: Opposition in the Ulbricht State? , Horch and Guck, Heft 37, 2002 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ernst Bloch, Jürgen Jahn: "I would like to bring mine under one roof -": Ernst Bloch's business correspondence with the Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1946–1961; a documentation , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-447-05320-8 , page 168 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ http://www.dra.de/online/hinweisdienste/jahrestage/jt-regio_2010.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesitant, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2000 |
| Place of death | Berlin |