Klaus Steiniger

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Klaus Steiniger (born December 28, 1932 in Berlin ; † April 9, 2016 there ) was a German journalist , author and public prosecutor in the GDR .

Life

As the son of the communist lawyer of Jewish descent Peter Alfons Steiniger , Steiniger was expelled from grammar school in 1943. Many of his relatives were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

On his 16th birthday in 1948, Klaus Steiniger joined the SED in West Berlin . After moving to East Berlin , he studied law at the Humboldt University . From 1956 he worked as a public prosecutor in the Güstrow district and was mayor of the Vietgest community from 1961 to 1963 . In 1963 he was an editor for a short time at the television program Current Camera and worked from 1964 to 1967 in the GDR Foreign Ministry . After receiving his doctorate, Steiniger worked in the foreign policy department of the SED central organ New Germany in 1967 , to which he was an editor until 1992. Steiniger left the PDS and joined the DKP .

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In 1998 he co-founded the left-wing extremist magazine Rotfuchs , according to the protection of the constitution , of which he was editor-in-chief until his death in 2016. Steiniger was a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support e. V. and last lived in Berlin. He is buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • Portugal in April. Chronicler of the Carnation Revolution. Berlin 2011.
  • Angela Davis. A woman writes history. With a foreword by Angela Davis . Berlin 2010.
  • CIA, FBI & Co. The US secret service cartel. Foreword and epilogue by Rainer Rupp . Berlin 2008.
  • With Winston and Cunhal. Reporters on four continents. Berlin 2004.
  • Tops and flops. The business of the US intelligence services. With a preface by "Topas". Berlin 1998.
  • The brood of Al Capone . Gangster syndicates in the USA. Berlin 1986.
  • Portugal. Leipzig 1982.
  • The emergence of the Johnson doctrine of the strategy of total interventionism. Potsdam 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arnold Schölzel and Patrik Köbele: Dialectics of Class Struggles. In: young world. April 12, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Saxon handbook on extremism and endangering efforts 2009 (PDF; 47 kB) of the Saxon State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
  3. ↑ Honorable remembrance in grh-Mitteilungen No. 5/2016 (accessed on June 30, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Steiniger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author, East German public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2016
Place of death Berlin