Helmut Linke
Helmut Linke (born October 6, 1928 in Greiz ; † May 30, 2016 ) was a German journalist . He was editor-in-chief of the SED newspaper “ Free Word ” in the GDR .
Life
Linke, son of a plumber , attended elementary and commercial vocational school. From 1944 he had to do military service in the Wehrmacht and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he was soon released.
After the Second World War he was a commercial apprentice in Greiz in 1945/46. He then worked as a commercial clerk until 1948 and attended evening classes at the textile college in 1946/47. In 1948 he became a member of the SED. From 1948 to 1950 he worked as an editorial volunteer for the newspaper “ Das Volk ” in Greiz and from 1950 to 1951 as editor of the same newspaper in Bad Salzungen . After studying in 1951/52 at the “Karl Marx” party college of the SED, he was editor at the newspaper “Free Word” in Suhl from 1953 to 1959. He completed a distance learning course at the Journalism Section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1953 to 1960 as a qualified journalist. In 1961 he became deputy editor-in-chief and in 1965 editor-in-chief of the SED district organ “Free Word” in Suhl (successor to Gerhard Fuchs ). From 1967 to 1989 he was a member of the central board of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ) and chairman of the VDJ in the Suhl district . During his studies at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow he was represented by Klaus Kleine as editor-in-chief, but retained his membership in the SED district leadership in Suhl, to which he belonged from 1967 to 1989. Linke was replaced as editor-in-chief by his long-time deputy Heinz Escher in 1989 during the fall of the Berlin Wall .
Left died at the age of 87.
Awards
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1980 Order Banner of Labor Level I
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , pp. 193-194.
- Andreas Herbst : Linke, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in Südthüringer Presse from June 4, 2016 (accessed June 14, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Left, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 2016 |