Klaus Hilbig

Klaus Hilbig (born February 10, 1930 in Leipzig ; † March 16, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German youth and cultural functionary ( FDJ , GDR television ), politician ( SED ) and editor .

Life

Hilbig came from a working class family. He attended elementary and high school in Leipzig, from 1941 in Bad Warmbrunn near Hirschberg (Lower Silesia). After the end of the war, the family moved to Ronneburg (Thuringia) . In 1946 Hilbig joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1948 he passed his Abitur in Gera . He then studied from 1948 to 1951 at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 1950 he was first secretary of the FDJ basic organization of the FSU Jena.

From 1951 to 1960 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Der Junge Pionier and later drum and member of the central management of the pioneer organization "Ernst Thälmann" . In 1960/61 he was an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED and from 1962 to 1965 an aspirant at the Academy for Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. on The Moral Ideal in the Marxist-Leninist Ethics . From 1965 to 1972 he was editor-in-chief of the FDJ weekly newspaper Forum. Newspaper for students and young scientists . From 1969 to 1972 Hilbig was a member of the central party leadership at the Junge Welt publishing house . Hilbig was considered the political mentor of the FDJ singing movement and headed the advisory group of the FDJ singing movement in the central council of the FDJ .

From June 1972 he headed the cultural policy department at the television of the GDR and was editor-in-chief for cultural policy there from 1974. He was the founder of the Kulturmagazin program . In 1975/76 he was a member of the central party leadership of GDR television and the state committee for television . From August 1984 he headed the publications department of the party college "Karl Marx" , but was recalled in November 1985 for health reasons. However, he remained a lecturer at the party college.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, silver (1976) and gold (1979)
• Art Prize of the FDJ (1975)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 319.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth , Ulrike Schuster:  Hilbig, Klaus . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .