Reginald Grimmer
Reginald Otto Grimmer (* 1. May 1926 in Leipzig , † 4. October 1994 in Berlin ) was a SED - official and 1968-1971 Chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting the GDR .
Life
Grimmer came from a working-class family and trained as a lathe operator in the early 1940s. From 1943 to 1945 he was a squad leader at the RAD . During the Second World War he did military service, in May 1945 he was taken as a non-commissioned officer in Soviet captivity and worked as a smelter, lathe operator and locksmith as well as in the quarry. He attended several Antifa schools and was released in January 1949 to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation .
In 1949 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the Free German Youth (FDJ) and got his first positions in the FDJ district leadership in Leipzig. From September 1949 to June 1950 he was secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership in Leipzig and from July 1950 to June 1951 sector leader in the agitation department of the SED state leadership in Saxony . From June 1951 to December 1952 he worked as an instructor in the radio sector and from December 1952 to August 1954 as head of the radio sector in the agitation department of the SED Central Committee. From September 1954 to August 1955 he studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and rose in October 1955 to the position of deputy head of the agitation department of the Central Committee of the SED. In July 1962 he became First Deputy Chairman of the State Broadcasting Committee. From November 1968 to July 1971 he was the successor to Gerhart Eisler, Chairman of the Broadcasting Committee. On April 21, 1969 he was also elected to succeed Gerhart Eisler as deputy chairman of the Association of Journalists of the GDR (VDJ).
From July 1971 to December 1988, Grimmer was Hans Modrow's successor as Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda of the SED district leadership in Berlin. He then acted as chairman of the commission for traditional work of the SED district leadership in Berlin. Grimmer was a candidate from May 1976 (9th Party Congress) to April 1981 (10th Party Congress), then a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED . In addition, Grimmer was a member of the Berlin city council from 1971 to 1990 .
literature
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader. The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 211 f.
- Short biography on: Grimmer, Reginald Otto, Bernd-Rainer Barth . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Awards
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1979 in gold
- 1976 Order Banner of Labor Level I
- 1986 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ↑ VDJ advised. In: New Germany . April 23, 1969, p. 2.
Kurt Heiss (1952–1956) | Hermann Ley (1956–1962) | Gerhart Eisler (1962–1968) | Reginald Grimmer (1968–1971) | Rudolf Singer (1971–1980) | Achim Becker (1980–1989)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grimmer, Reginald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grimmer, Reginald Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary and chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1994 |
| Place of death | Berlin |