Klaus Raddatz (journalist)

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Klaus Raddatz (left) when Waldemar Cierpinski was named " Sportsman of the Year " (1976)

Klaus Raddatz (* 8. July 1932 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and SED - official in the GDR .

Life

Klaus Raddatz was born the son of employees in Berlin, where he attended elementary school until 1945 . After the end of the war he became a member of the Antifa youth in Havelberg . In 1946 he joined the FDJ and in 1948 also the SED . In 1951 he graduated from high school and then studied journalism until 1955 at the Faculty of Journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he remained as an assistant for another three years after completing his studies.

After an interim position as editor of the FDJ magazine Forum , Raddatz went to the FDJ central organ Junge Welt (JW) in 1959 , where he stayed for the next 18 years. Raddatz began his career at Junge Welt as a department head in the editorial office. After six years, he was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief in 1965. In 1971 he was appointed editor- in- chief as the successor to Horst Pehnert . At the same time Raddatz was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ . In 1977 Raddatz left the Junge Welt , his successor was Dieter Langguth .

From 1977 to 1984 Raddatz was deputy head of the “Agitation” department of the SED Central Committee , then until October 1989 deputy chairman of the State Committee for Television of the GDR. Raddatz was awarded the Order of Labor Banner in 1981 and the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1982. After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Raddatz worked for a year as an editor in the viewer connection department of the German television broadcasting company . In November 1990 he took early retirement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Raddatz, Klaus . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ^ Forum: Journal of the Democratic Students in Germany . Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1947–1983, ISSN  0015-8313 .
personal data
SURNAME Raddatz, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin