Rolf Priemer
Rolf Priemer (born November 15, 1940 in Bremen ; † January 29, 2017 in Bonn ) was deputy chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP) from 1996 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of the party's weekly newspaper Unser Zeit (UZ) from 1996 to 2007 .
After training as a typesetter , in 1962 he began a traineeship at the socialist youth magazine elan , which was published in Dortmund and later became the association organ of the Socialist German Workers' Youth (SDAJ) . In the meantime, he ended his work as editor in charge and in 1968 participated in the founding of the SDAJ, of which he was chairman until 1974. He had already joined the banned KPD in 1960.
Subsequently, Priemer was a member of the presidium and the secretariat of the party executive committee of the DKP and was responsible for youth work, among other things. From 1978 to 1986 he was district chairman of the DKP Saarland. After internal party disputes about the political orientation of the DKP after the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR and German reunification , Priemer became one of the party spokesmen in 1990 and deputy chairman of the DKP in 1996. In 1996 he became editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Our Time . Wolfgang Teuber took over this task in February 2007. Priemer last lived in Bonn .
Publications
- Heinz Stehr , Rolf Priemer (Eds.): 25 years DKP: a story without end (= Edition Marxist sheets). Neue Impulse Verlag , Essen, 1993, ISBN 978-3-910080-01-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Worker, journalist, 1968 and communist . In: Our Time , February 3, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2018.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Priemer, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and DKP functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Bonn |