Richard Gyptner

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Richard Gyptner in 1946

Richard Gyptner (April 3, 1901, Hamburg – December 2, 1972, Berlin ) was a German communist politician, activist and later a diplomat in East Germany.

Biography[]

After graduating from a public school in Hamburg, he gained an apprenticeship in an electrical shop and then joined .

In 1919, Gyptner was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Germany in Hamburg. In 1920 he became the first Chairman of the Communist Youth Association of Germany. From 1922 to 1928 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International. In 1929 he became Georgi Dimitrov's secretary in the Comintern. In 1933 Gyptner went to Paris and worked in the office of the International Red Aid of Willi Münzenberg as representatives of the Comintern. In 1935 Gyptner went to the USSR In Moscow he worked as an editor for the broadcaster .[1]

He returned to Germany on April 30, 1945 and was among the Ulbricht group, and in June 1945 he became secretary of the KPD Central Committee. After the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was founded in April 1946, Gyptner became one of the two secretaries of the SED Party executive. He later became Vice-President of the Berlin People's Police and Head of the Political Culture Department.[2]

Gyptner went ent to the Foreign Ministry in February 1953, where he headed various main departments and later became an ambassador.  He proposed the establishment of a center for development and reconnaissance, with as chairman and as deputy, and appointed a five-person management committee. Gyptner headed the Capitalist Foreign Department in the Foreign Ministry of the GDR.[3]

Gyptner had been a member and later Honorary President of the since 1954. From November 1955 to 1958 he was ambassador to China, from 1958 to 1961 Plenipotentiary of the GDR government for the Arab states in Cairo and from March 1961 to April 1963 ambassador to Poland. In 1964 he retired and lived as a working-class veteran in Berlin.[4]

Honors[]

References[]

  1. ^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz. Berlin. 2004.
  2. ^ Pike, David (1992). The politics of culture in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 . ISBN 9780804720939.
  3. ^ "Richard Gyptner - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  4. ^ "bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de".
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