Manfred Banaschak

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On November 9, 1989, Manfred Banaschak (second from left) sat with Günter Schabowski at the press conference that initiated the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Manfred Banaschak (born September 14, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German former SED functionary, university professor and editor-in-chief of the SED magazine Einheit .

Life

The son of a shipping agent Manfred Banaschak visited after the elementary school to high school and acquired in 1948 the High School . Banaschak's father later became a GDR trade council in Warsaw and Moscow . In 1945 Banaschak joined the KPD and became a member of the SED in 1946 after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . 1948-49 he worked as an intern at the Association of German consumer cooperatives active in Berlin and then studied until 1952 at the Economics Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin and earned the diploma as an economist .

1951/52 Banaschak was an assistant assistant with honorary teaching assignment at the Humboldt University in Berlin and member of the faculty board of the FDJ . In September 1951 he began working for the SED magazine Einheit as an editor for economics, which lasted until 1989 . In 1953/54 Banaschak was also a lecturer and employee in the economic commission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED .

From 1960 to 1964, Banaschak was head of economics at the magazine Einheit and was then deputy editor-in-chief with the rank of deputy department head of the SED Central Committee. From 1964 he was also a lecturer at the National Academy of Law and Political Sciences in Potsdam and was there in 1963 with a thesis on "organization and methods state monopoly exercise of power in the Federal Republic of Germany" doctorate . In 1968 Banaschak received his habilitation and was honorary professor at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam from 1969 to 1990 .

From May 1972 to November 1989 Banaschak was the successor to Hans Schaul as editor-in-chief of the magazine Einheit . In 1981 Banaschak became a lieutenant colonel in the reserve of the National People's Army and a member of a Politburo commission and was a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1986 to 1989. In September 1989 he was made an honorary doctorate from the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED. On November 9, 1989, Banaschak sat with Günter Schabowski , Helga Labs and Gerhard Beil as spokesman for the SED in the press conference that initiated the fall of the Berlin Wall .

After the political reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the magazine Einheit was discontinued in autumn 1989. Banaschak took early retirement in early 1990.

Honors

Fonts

  • Manfred Banaschak: The power of associations. Organization and method of state monopoly exercise of power and mass seduction . Berlin 1964, DNB  450225062 .
  • Manfred Banaschak, Jörg Vorholzer: Man and Power. Man in the opposite social systems of our time . Berlin 1969, DNB  572124694 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Manfred Banaschak  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The most beautiful mistake in history. In: Berliner Zeitung. September 25, 2009.
  2. ↑ Arnold Schölzel: An episode from the beginning of the current union war. (PDF file; 42 kB) at: www.rosalux.de
personal data
SURNAME Banaschak, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, university professor and editor-in-chief of an SED magazine
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin