Rudolf Singer (politician, 1915)

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Rudolf "Rudi" Singer (born July 10, 1915 in Hamburg ; † November 1, 1980 in East Berlin ) was a German SED functionary, journalist and chairman of the GDR State Broadcasting Committee .

Life

Youth in the Weimar Republic

Rudolf Singer was born into a Jewish family. The father was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942.

From 1931 to 1934 he learned the profession of export merchant at Concentra GmbH Hamburg and at the state commercial school Am Lämmermarkt Hamburg. Until his arrest in 1936 he worked for the Keyaniyan Co company as a buyer and department manager.

Resistance and Emigration

Singer belonged to the resistance after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 . He was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp from 1933 to 1934 . He was released early because of the Röhm Putsch . "The prison director needed space in the cells." [3] In 1935 he was arrested again and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. During his imprisonment, he met Kurt van der Wal de and Karlheinz Rebstock [4]. After his release he emigrated via Italy into Switzerland . In March 1939 he was interned in the Girenbad internment camp . From 1940 he was in a labor camp in Oberglatt . From October 1944 to September 1945 he was secretary of the Free Germany Movement in Switzerland. He then returned to Germany. [5]

KPD functionary in Bavaria

After his return in 1945 he worked in various functions for the KPD in Bavaria . From 1945 to 1949 he was secretary of the KPD district leadership in Northern Bavaria and editor-in-chief of the Nordbayerischen Volksecho in Nuremberg , from 1950 editor-in-chief of the KPD central organ Free People and member of the KPD party executive committee and its secretariat. In 1951 Singer moved to the GDR.

Functionary in the GDR

From 1952 he was deputy editor-in-chief, from 1955 to 1963 editor-in-chief of the newspaper Freiheit in Halle (Saale) . From 1955 to 1963 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Halle and from 1956 to 1961 he completed a distance learning course with a degree in social science at the party university . From 1956 to 1958 he was the first editor-in-chief of the German freedom broadcaster 904 . From 1963 to 1966 Singer was head of the agitation department in the SED Central Committee and deputy chairman of the agitation commission at the Politburo . He then became editor-in-chief of New Germany in 1966 as successor to Hermann Axen (until 1971). From 1967 to 1980 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED. Rudolf Singer is best known for his work as chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting , a position he held from July 1971 until his death in 1980, and from 1971 he was also deputy chairman of the Organization Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision .

From 1971 to 1980 Singer was a member of the People's Chamber . Here he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and chairman of the GDR-India parliamentary friendship group. Singer was also a member of the central management of the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters in the GDR.

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

His son Klaus Singer was the office manager of the chairman of the party Die Linke , Gesine Lötzsch .

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SURNAME Singer, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Singer, Rudi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), MdV and chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1980
Place of death East Berlin