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Günther Jahn
Günther Jahn (9 January 1930 – 29 October 2015) was a German politician and functionary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Socialist Unity Party (SED). Life and career East Germany His father was the locksmith and Communist Party of Germany, KPD functionary Hermann Jahn. His older brother was the economist and Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, Marx-Engels researcher Wolfgang Jahn. Günther Jahn attended elementary and secondary school in Erfurt from 1936 to 1946. In 1946, he joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Communist Party of Germany, KPD (Merger of the KPD and SPD, later SED) and obtained his Abitur, high school diploma in 1948 from the Humboldt School in Erfurt. From 1948 to 1950, he studied economics at the University of Jena, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and completed his studies in 1952 at the University of Economics in Berlin, earning a diploma in economics. Reunified Germany He was married to the physician Esther Jahn si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Unity Party Of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany) from the country's foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. It was a Marxist–Leninist communist party, established in April 1946 as a merger between the East German branches of the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democratic Party of Germany. Although the GDR was a one-party state, some other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED; these parties included the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers' Party, and the National Democratic Party. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as '' perestroika'' and '' glasnost'', which would le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
