Richard Gyptner

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Richard Gyptner (born April 3, 1901 in Hamburg , † December 2, 1972 in Berlin ) was a member of the Ulbricht group and later ambassador of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Richard Gyptner attended elementary school in Hamburg. From 1916 to 1918 he did an apprenticeship in an electrical shop. In 1916 he joined the Association of German clerks . In 1919 he was one of the founding members of the KPD in Hamburg. From 1919 to 1920 he worked as a shipbuilding assistant in the Hamburg shipyard . From 1920 to 1924 he was a chairman of the Communist Youth Association of Germany . From 1922 to 1928 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International in Moscow. In 1923 his son Rudolf Gyptner was born. In 1929 he became Georgi Dimitrov's secretary . 1933 Gyptner went to Paris and worked in the office of the International Red Aid of Willi Munzenberg as representatives of the Comintern . In 1935 Gyptner went to the USSR . In Moscow he worked as an editor for the broadcaster “Free Germany” .

He returned to Germany on April 30, 1945 with the Ulbricht group , and in June 1945 became secretary of the KPD Central Committee. After the SED was founded in April 1946, Gyptner became one of the two equal secretaries of the SED party executive. From March 1949 to May 1950 he was Artur Lehmann's successor, Vice President of the Berlin People's Police and Head of the Political Culture Department, and since September 1949 he has represented Police President Paul Markgraf , who was studying in the Soviet Union. After attending the Liebenwalde State Party School from June to December 1950, Gyptner was head of a main department in the Information Office from January 1951 to 1953 . After its dissolution, he went to the Foreign Ministry in February 1953 , where he headed various main departments and later became ambassador. He proposed the establishment of a center for reconstruction and reconnaissance , with Rudolf Engel as chairman and Herbert Gute as deputy, and appointed a five-person management committee. Gyptner headed the main department Capitalist Abroad in the Foreign Ministry of the GDR.

Gyptner had been a member and later Honorary President of the German League for the United Nations since 1954 . From November 1955 to 1958 he was ambassador to Beijing , from 1958 to 1961 Plenipotentiary of the GDR government for the Arab states in Cairo and from March 1961 to April 1963 ambassador in Warsaw . In 1964 he retired and last lived as a working-class veteran in Berlin.

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 278.
  2. ↑ Hans Schoots: Living dangerously: a biography of Joris Ivens . P. 88
  3. ^ New Germany , March 31, 1949
  4. ↑ Michael F. Scholz: Do you want Scandinavian experiences? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Stuttgart 2000, p. 356
  5. ↑ Recipe Korea . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1949 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Michael F. Scholz: Do you want Scandinavian experiences? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Stuttgart 2000, p. 356
  7. ↑ David Pike : The politics of culture in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 .
  8. ^ Socialistenfriedhof.de
personal data
SURNAME Gyptner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador of the GDR in the USSR and in China
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1972
Place of death Berlin