Joachim Herrmann
Herrmann in 1988
Editor-in-chief of
Neues Deutschland
In office
7 July 1971  15 March 1978
Deputy
  • Hajo Herbell
  • Harri Czepuck
  • Sander Drobela
  • Günter Kertzscher
  • Günter Schabowski
Preceded byRudolf Singer
Succeeded byGünter Schabowski
Editor-in-chief of
Berliner Zeitung
In office
February 1962  December 1965
Preceded byTheo Grandy
Succeeded byRolf Lehnert
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer
for Berlin-Mitte, Berlin-Friedrichshain
In office
17 October 1976  16 November 1989
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Central Committee Secretariat responsibilities[1]
1979–1989Friendly Parties
1978–1989Agitation
1978–1989Propaganda
1978–1983Party Academy Karl Marx
Personal details
Born(1928-10-29)29 October 1928
Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Died30 July 1992(1992-07-30) (aged 63)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySED-PDS
(1989–1990)
Other political
affiliations
Socialist Unity Party
(1948–1989)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Journalist
Awards
Central institution membership

Other offices held
  • 1978–1989: Head,
    Agitation Commission at the Politburo
  • 1958–1960; 1963–1989: Member,
    Agitation Commission at the Politburo
  • 1960–1972: Member,
    West Commission at the Politburo

Joachim Herrmann (October 29, 1928 - July 30, 1992) was an East German politician. He served as editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland and as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

Life

From 1938 to 1945 he was a member of the Hitler Youth, and was drafted towards the end of World War II as a Luftwaffe auxiliary. He became a journalist, and by 1949 was working at the Berliner Zeitung. He then joined the SED.From 1949 to 1952 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the Freie Deutsche Jugend's paper Junge Welt, and from 1954 to 1960 was editor-in-chief. During that time he served as a member of the central council of the Freie Deutsche Jugend. From 1960 to 1962 he worked as deputy head of department in the Central Committee of the SED. He then served from 1962 to 1965 as editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung. Following a stint as State Secretary for West German Affairs he became the editor-in-chief of the SED party paper Neues Deutschland until 1978. During this time he quickly rose among government circles, and in 1967 became a candidate for member of the GDR's Central Committee. He was elected as a member of the Committee in 1971, and then became a member of the Politburo in 1978, at which time he resigned his position as editor-in-chief. From 1978 to 1989 he served as a member of the Politburo, overseeing media and propaganda operations as well as satellite parties. On November 10, 1989, he was expelled from the Central Committee of the SED, as part of a move to save face by General Secretary Egon Krenz. He was later also expelled from the SED in 1990.

He died in Berlin in 1992.

Awards

Hermann received the Banner of Labor Order in 1968,[2] the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1970,[3] and the Order of Karl Marx in 1978 and 1988.

References

"Ausschluss. Das Politbüro vor dem Parteigericht". rosalux.de. 2020-01-10. Retrieved 2020-12-05.</ref>

  1. "Büro Joachim Herrmann im ZK der SED" (in German). Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  2. Neues Deutschland, 30. April 1968, S. 2
  3. Neues Deutschland, 7. Mai 1970, S. 2


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