Rudolf Barbarino
Rudolf Barbarino (born March 19, 1920 in Katowice ) is a German journalist and was director of the Junge Welt publishing house and director of the Berlin publishing house .
Life
After attending primary school and secondary school , Rudolf Barbarino completed an apprenticeship as a banker in 1938 , became a member of the Hitler Youth (HJ) and drafted into the Reich Labor Service . From 1939 to 1941 Barbarino fought in the German Wehrmacht in World War II and achieved the rank of lieutenant . After deployments in Poland , France and the USSR , he was seriously wounded in 1941 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . Until 1948 he was interned in various camps, most recently in camp 7150 in Grjasowez in the Volga region. Barbarino became an Antifa student and was a participant in the founding assembly of the National Committee for Free Germany (NKFD) in Krasnogorsk near Moscow , after which he became the front commissioner of the NKFD in the 33rd and 5th Army of the Second Belarusian Front . After the end of the war he worked in various prisoner-of-war camps in so-called political education work.
Barbarino was released in March 1948, returned to Germany and joined the SED in April . Until June 1948 he worked for the Guarantee and Credit Bank in Berlin and then became a research assistant , interpreter , editor and head of the department for work and management at the Berlin publishing house. He also became a member of the Working Group of Former Officers (AeO). In 1959, Barbarino switched to the printing and publishing office in East Berlin and in 1961, succeeding Fritz Höhn, he became head of the FDJ- Verlag Junge Welt and remained this until 1965.
In 1965 Barbarino became deputy general director for publishing in the central printing, purchasing and auditing company of the SED (ZENTRAG). From April 1967 Barbarino was acting director and from November 1967 as successor to Hermann Leupold director of the Berlin publishing house and remained so until his retirement in 1983. From 1961 to 1983 Barabrino was also a member of the central board of the Association of Journalists of the GDR . Barbarino lives in Berlin.
Honors
- 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1982 Labor Stage I banner
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Rudolf Barbarino . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Journalists and journalism in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-36205-8 .
- Willy Wolff: On the side of the Red Army, on the work of the National Committee “Free Germany” on the Soviet-German Front 1943-1945. Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1982.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Barbarino (PDF; 894 kB) Short biography at www.rosalux.de
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 1, 1975, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung, April 30, 1982, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbarino, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and head of the publishing houses Junge Welt and Berliner Verlag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice |