Wilfried Geissler
Wilfried Geißler (born March 8, 1935 in Oederan ; † May 28, 1998 in Sommerfeld ) was a German journalist in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1985 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Sonntag published by the Kulturbund der DDR .
Life
Geißler, son of a seamstress and a typesetter, studied from 1954 to 1958 at the Institute for Journalism and Newspaper Studies at the University of Leipzig and became a qualified journalist. In 1956 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
Until 1960 Geißler worked as an editor of a village newspaper in Thurkow in Mecklenburg and was thus a political employee of the SED district leadership in Teterow . 1960 to 1964 he was local editor of the newspaper Freie Erde , which was the district organ of the SED in Neubrandenburg . In 1964 he was promoted to deputy and in 1968 to head of the cultural policy department of the newspaper. 1968 to 1971 he was a member of the editors' collective called chief editors.
From 1971 to 1975 Geißler was an aspirant at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED and was awarded Dr. phil. PhD.
In September 1977, Geissler switched to the cultural-political weekly newspaper Sonntag , which was published by the Kulturbund der DDR with a circulation of 200,000 copies. In 1980 he became deputy and in November 1985, as successor to Hans Jacobus , editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In this function he was also a member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund of the GDR. After the reunification and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he lost these functions in 1990.
Honors
- 1985 Patriotic Order of Merit (GDR)
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Wilfried Geißler . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Gabriele Baumgartner: Karl-Friedrich Fuchs . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .
- S. Barck, M. Langermann, S. Lokatis (eds.): Between mosaic and unity - magazines in the GDR . Berlin 1999.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilfried Geißler in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geissler, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and editor-in-chief in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | District of Flöha |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1998 |
| Place of death | Summer field |