Kurt Ehrich
Kurt Ehrich (born November 26, 1925 in Vienna , † October 21, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German journalist in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and a functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1960 to 1967 he was director of the German broadcaster .
Life
Ehrich, the son of a worker, learned to be a furrier and hat maker after finishing secondary school . In 1944/45 he worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn building positions.
After the end of the Second World War , Ehrich joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the SED in 1946 after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . In the same year he became an employee of the SED state management in Mecklenburg . Ehrich studied Marxism-Leninism at the University of Rostock until 1949 and then became a research assistant at the German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht" (DASR) .
From 1950 to 1957 Ehrich was an editor at the State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR and from 1956/57 a correspondent in Bonn . From 1957 to 1960 he was sector leader in the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED and then until 1967, as the successor to Heinz Geggel , director of the German broadcaster. In addition, from 1962 he was deputy chairman, from 1969 first deputy chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting and from 1967 a member of the Western Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED . He lost these offices after the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR in November 1989.
Honors
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1971 in silver and 1985 in gold
- 1976 Order Banner of Labor Level I
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth and Andreas Herbst : Kurt Ehrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- K. Arnold: Cold war in the ether. The German broadcaster and the GDR's western propaganda , Münster 2002.
- Gunter Holzweißig: Mass media in the GDR. In: Jürgen Wilke (ed.), Media History of the Federal Republic of Germany , Cologne et al. 1999.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrich, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and SED functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 2004 |
| Place of death | Berlin |