Klaus Gysi
Klaus Gysi ( born March 3, 1912 in Neukölln, † 6 March 1999 in Berlin ) was an anti-fascist resistance fighters, 1966-1973 Minister of Culture and 1979-1988 State Secretary for Church Affairs of the GDR.
Life
Gysi was born the son of a doctor and an accountant. He, after attending elementary school in the Neukölln district of Berlin and the Grammar School in 1931 after attending the Odenwald School in Darmstadt from a high school. He was since 1928 a member of the Communist Youth League of Germany, the International Workers' Aid and the Socialist Federal student and joined the Communist Party in 1931. He studied from 1931 to 1935 economics in Frankfurt am Main, at the Sorbonne in Paris and Berlin.
Since 1931 he has been active in the Red student movement. In 1935, he was expelled from the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin, went to Cambridge in 1936 and in 1939 member of the student leadership of the KPD in Paris. From 1939 to 1940 he was interned in France and then returned to KPD decision with his wife Irene Gysi (born Lessing, sister of Gottfried Lessing ) back to Germany. Gysi was politically active for the publisher Hoppenstedt & Co. in Berlin and illegal.
1946 joined the SED in Gysi. He was from 1945 to 1948 editor of the journal Structure: Political culture monthly magazine, 1945-1977 Member of the Presidential Council, Federal Secretary, and finally a member of the Presidium of the Cultural League and from 1949 to 1954 deputy of the People's Chamber. From 1952 to 1957 he worked at the publishing house people and knowledge and was then until 1966 as the successor to Walter Janka head of the Aufbau publishing house.
Since 1963 Gysi was a member of West Commission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1966 ( January 12th 1966) to 1973 he was Minister for Culture, Member of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic and the Cultural Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1967 to March 1990 he was again deputy of the People's Chamber.
From 1973 to 1978, Gysi 's ambassador to Italy, the Vatican and Malta. He was from December 1978 to 1979 Secretary General of the unofficial GDR Committee for European Security and Cooperation, which was in preparation for the CSCE. From November 1979 until his retirement in 1988 was Gysi State Secretary for Church Affairs. In 1990 he became a member of the PDS.
Gysi was in 1969 with the Banner of Labor, 1970, the commemorative medal of the Ministry of State Security and the Lenin Memorial Medal, in 1972 the Patriotic Order of Merit, in 1977 the Karl -Marx- Orden, 1982 with the honor Clasp to the Patriotic Order of Merit and in 1987 with the Great Star of International Friendship excellent. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1987 at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena.
He is buried at the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Zehlendorf.
His daughter, the actress Gabriele Gysi, traveled in 1985 from the GDR. His son, the lawyer Gregor Gysi, was from 1989 to 1993 chairman of the PDS and is still one of the most prominent politicians of the Left Party.
From 1956 to 1964 Gysi worked as an unofficial member under the code name " Kurt " for the Ministry of State Security.