Reinhold Hennig

Reinhold Hennig (born May 24, 1919 in Zerbst ; † October 27, 2003 ) was a German journalist and functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and from 1953 to 1955 editor-in-chief of the NDPD central organ National-Zeitung .

Life

Hennig, the son of a teacher, attended elementary school and high school. He was drafted into the army in 1937 and had to do military service from 1939. He was captured by the Soviets in 1944 and attended an Antifa school .

Hennig returned to Germany in early 1950. He went to the GDR and joined the NDPD in the same year. At the 2nd NDPD congress in June 1950 he was elected to the main board of the party. At the 3rd party congress in June 1951, he became a member of the newly formed NDPD main committee and head of the main electoral corporations and administration department of the main committee. At times he was personal assistant to the then deputy party chairman Vincenz Müller . On October 31, 1951, he moved to the People's Chamber . From February 25, 1953 to 1955 he exercised the function of editor-in-chief of the NDPD central organ “National-Zeitung” (successor to Rudi Reinwarth ) and was also a member of the NDPD party executive. In August 1955 he was expelled from the NDPD main committee and on September 23, 1955, he resigned from his seat in the People's Chamber . In the People's Chamber he was a member of the Standing Committee for General Affairs.

He then worked for the Urania publishing house in Leipzig . From 1957 he worked as a business editor for the newspaper BZ am Abend in Berlin , and was later deputy editor-in-chief until May 1984.

Awards

1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1979 in silver
1983 Berlin Journalism Prize

literature

Information Office West (Ed.): Handbook of the Soviet Zone People's Chamber. 2nd electoral period (1954-1958) , Berlin 1955, p. 163.
Andreas Herbst : Hennig, Reinhold . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 28, 1979 p. 11.
↑ Berlin Journalist Prize awarded . In: Neue Zeit , October 5, 1983, p. 2.

personal data
SURNAME	Hennig, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German NDPD functionary and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 2003

[1] Berliner Zeitung of April 28, 1979 p. 11.

[2] Berlin Journalist Prize awarded . In: Neue Zeit , October 5, 1983, p. 2.