Klaus Gäbler

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Klaus Gäbler (born October 5, 1931 in Steinpleis ) is a former German SED functionary. He was department head of the Central Committee of the SED.

Life

The son of a worker joined the SED while he was still at high school in 1947 and, after graduating from high school , studied at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1952 . A subsequent study of philosophy at the Lomonossow University in Moscow , he completed in 1957 as a graduate philosopher.

After his return to the GDR he was first an employee of the SED district leadership in Leipzig and then from 1958 to 1961 assistant and senior assistant at the Philosophical Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. He then switched to the Propaganda Department of the SED Central Committee , where he became sector leader in 1963 and deputy director in 1967. In 1978 he completed his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED with a dissertation on philosophy, working class and revolution: a study on the beginning of the theoretical justification of the interrelationship between dialectical-materialist philosophy, revolutionary proletariat and socialist revolution in the first writings of Karl Marx ( 1836 - 1844) .

He had been a member of the Urania Presidium since the 1970s . In February 1979, he was eventually to succeed Kurt Tiedke head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the SED and remained in this position until the dissolution of the SED in 1989. In addition, he was temporarily a member of the agitation Commission at the SED Politburo that of Central Committee Secretary Joachim Herrmann led and to which Günter Schabowski , Heinz Adameck , Heinz Geggel , Achim Becker , Kurt Blecha , Frank-Joachim Herrmann , Dieter Kerschek , Wolfgang Meyer , Waldemar Pilz , Günter Pötschke , Joachim Wolff , Günther Bobach , Günter Böhme and Bruno Wagner belonged.

Gäbler was also a member of the Central Committee of the SED from April 16, 1981 (Xth Party Congress) to December 1989. In his function as head of the Central Committee, he finally carried out the first analyzes of the demonstrations at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in November 1989 for the Politburo of the SED.

Awards

Fonts

  • Whose freedom do you mean, Chancellor? Berlin 1965.
  • Why is our worldview optimistic? Berlin 1966.
  • Working with Marxist-Leninist literature and its distribution. Berlin 1967.
  • Triumph of Marxism-Leninism: The Marxist-Leninist science - trailblazer in socialist construction in the GDR. Dresden 1969.
  • Schöneiche-Fichtenau memorial and educational center. Schöneiche-Fichtenau 1973.
  • Literary propaganda and distribution in the basic organizations of the SED. Berlin 1974.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of April 27, 1974
  2. ↑ Steffen Reichert: Transformation processes: the conversion of the LVZ . In: Media Change in East Germany . tape 1 . LIT Verlag Münster, 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4487-0 , p. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 22, 2017]).
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: That is unbelievable! SPIEGEL series about the turn and end of the SED state (No. 45/1999)
  4. ↑ Walter Süss: State Security at the End: Why the Powerful Failed to Avoid a Revolution in 1989 . In: Analyzes and Documents - Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic . tape 15 . Ch. Links Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-86153-181-X , p. 411 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gäbler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, department head of the SED Central Committee
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinpleis , Werdau