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Wolfgang Zimmer (born April 14, 1920 ) is a German cultural functionary who founded and headed the Dresden Cultural Academy in the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Zimmer initially worked as an officer in the armed forces of the GDR and as such from 1950 to 1959 lecturer at the College for Officers of the Barracked People's Police, from 1956 renamed College for Officers of the NVA, later the "Friedrich Engels" Military Academy in Dresden. He then worked from 1959 to 1967 as district secretary for science, art and photography in the Kulturbund der GDR, especially for the Dresden district, where he "actively devoted himself to the practical application of Marxist-Leninist cultural theory".

In 1969 he successfully defended his diploma thesis at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig on the topic of new forms of impact of the Kulturbund in literature and art propaganda .

In the same year, as a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, he founded the cultural academy of the Dresden District at the District Council , Culture Department, which he took over as head. It was intended in the Dresden district for the line-loyal further training of the leaders and higher employees from all areas of cultural work in the sense of socialism .

In 1987 he published the 96-page representation of monuments of the Dresden district at the Dresden District Council . Three essays by him about Dresden were published between 1989 and 2000 in the Dresdner Hefte of the Dresdner Geschichtsverein .

In 1990, Wolfgang Zimmer returned three medieval parchment documents from Lemgo that had come into his possession during the GDR era.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Bachmann : cultural policy as an instrument of practical action. Wolfgang Zimmer on his 60th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 26, 1980, No. 5, p. 235.
  2. ↑ Greetings from the GDR - Lemgoer documents to St. Jürgen come back in 1990
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1920