Grandstand (newspaper)
The grandstand was from 1 January 1947 the central organ of the federal executive of the Free German Trade Union Federation . After German unification and the dissolution of the FDGB in 1990, the newspaper published in Berlin was discontinued in September 1991. The new time took over the subscription .
history
From January 2, 1950 to 1991, the newspaper appeared five times a week , making it one of the GDR's 39 daily newspapers . The circulation was 300,000 in 1952 and 405,800 in 1979.
The newspaper gained particular importance during the uprising of June 17, 1953 : on the one hand, an article by the union secretary Otto Lehmann in the stands was the immediate cause of the uprising. He wrote that the increases in standards resolved by the Politburo and the Council of Ministers on June 9th and 11th were fully correct and to be complied with, and on the other hand, she made a special effort to address the workers afterwards: Follow the call of your trade union organization to resume work immediately. That is in the interest of every working person, because this is the only way to secure and improve supplies for the population.
Well-known employees were among others Günter Schabowski .
From 1957 she was the organizer of the Grandstand Mountain Prize .
Editors-in-chief
- 1947–1951 Fritz Apelt and Jacob Walcher (for Berlin)
- 1951–1953 Günter Erxleben
- 1953–1975 Waldemar Pose
- 1975–1981 Claus Friedrich
- 1981–1989 Günter Simon
- 1989–1990 Frank Käßner
- 1990–1991 Michael Bolz
- 1991 Hubert von Brunn
literature
- Barbara Held, Thomas Simeon: The second zero hour. Berlin daily newspapers after the fall of the Wall (1989–1994). Spiess, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89166-181-9 .
Web links
- A mistake in Stalin's obituary destroyed two lives
- Chess compositions from the stands on the PDB server
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Herbst : Tribune . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .