Ludwig Aulbach
Ludwig Aulbach (born August 9, 1914 in Offenbach am Main ; † June 25, 1989 ) was a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the GDR newspaper Freie Presse .
Life
After primary school and an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk , the son of a leather worker Ludwig Aulbach attended the adult education center until 1931 . From 1936 to 1938 he did military service in the German Wehrmacht and worked as a buyer in Offenbach am Main in 1938/39 . Aulbach fought in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the Americans in Le Mans in France in December 1945 . In 1946 he was released, returned to Germany and first became a KPD and then a SED member. In 1946 Aulbach worked briefly as a buyer in the Oelsnitz coal works and then became editor of the SED newspaper Volksstimme in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . By 1948 Aulbach completed training at the SED state party school and distance learning at the Karl Marx party college .
In 1949 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the Lausitzer Rundschau in Bautzen and in 1950, as successor to Paul Prien, he became editor-in-chief of the Volksstimme (later Freie Presse in Chemnitz). In January 1956 Aulbach was replaced as editor-in-chief because of the printing of "letters with a fascist character" and party proceedings were initiated against him. Aulbach switched to the ADN news agency and at the end of 1956 became a correspondent for ADN and the Neues Deutschland newspaper in Cairo . Aulbach was a correspondent in Bucharest in 1972/73 and in Belgrade from 1975 to 1978 . Aulbach then worked in the international relations department at ADN in Berlin .
Awards
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
literature
- Kirsten Nies: Ludwig Aulbach . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Journalists and journalism in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-36205-8 .
- Anke Fiedler, Michael Meyen : Fictions for the people: GDR newspapers as a PR tool: case studies on the central organs Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt, Neue Zeit and Der Morgen . Lit Verlag, 2011. ISBN 3643110774 .
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SURNAME | Aulbach, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and editor-in-chief |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1914 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1989 |