Yvonne-Ruth Killmer

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Yvonne-Ruth Killmer , née Yvonne-Ruth Freyer (born September 12, 1921 in Berlin ; † September 27, 2014 there ), was a German journalist and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In the 1960s she was head of the press office of the government of the GDR and later editor-in-chief of the GDR magazine Das Freie Wort , Für Dich und Sibylle .

Life

The daughter of a bookseller and her parents emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933 . 1935 closed Yvonne Freyer in Amsterdam , the high school from. From 1936 to 1938 she attended the commercial school in Glauchau and began a commercial apprenticeship as an office clerk , which she completed in 1940. From 1941 to 1943 Freyer worked as a typist at the Higher Aviation School in Jüterbog and from 1943 to 1945 as a typist at the Märkle & Kniesche company in Leipzig .

From 1945 to 1947 Freyer was employed by the Glauchau police station. In 1945 Freyer joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the SED after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 . In 1945 and 1946 she was a part-time volunteer at the Sächsische Zeitung in Dresden . In 1947 and 1948 she completed a six-month course for journalists at the party college "Karl Marx" in Liebenwalde . In 1948 and 1949 she was press officer for the Saxony regional association of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) and in 1949 and 1950 she was a political employee of the SED regional leadership in Saxony.

In 1951 Freyer became editor-in-chief of the SED daily newspaper Freie Presse in Zwickau and thus the first female editor-in-chief in the GDR. From 1952 to 1959 she was editor-in-chief of the newly founded organ of the SED district leadership, Das Freie Wort in Suhl . From 1956 to 1960 she was a member of the SED district leadership in Suhl and temporarily chairwoman of the Suhl district association of the GDR's journalists' association . In 1959/1960 Freyer completed another course at the party college "Karl Marx" and in 1960 became editor-in-chief of press information at the press office of the GDR government. From 1962 to 1968 Freyer was editor-in-chief of the illustrated women's weekly magazine Für Dich . From 1964 to 1969 Freyer was a member of the presidium of the DFD federal executive board and at times also a member of the women's commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1968 to 1983 Freyer was editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Sibylle .

In October 1981 she married the journalist Lothar “Kolja” Killmer ( 1919–2000 ), whose first wife Anja Killmer-Korn had died in early May of the same year. Freyer and Killmer met in 1946 during a course.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Berlin obituaries: Kolja Killmer, born 1919. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 21, 2000, accessed December 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Killmer, Yvonne-Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freyer, Yvonne-Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and SED functionary, editor-in-chief of the GDR magazines " Für Dich " and " Sibylle "
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2014
Place of death Berlin