Günter Heyden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Günter Heyden

German politician

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1921

Place of Birth: Stargard, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 21-Jan-2002

Profession: politician, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Günter Heyden

  • Günter Heyden (16 February 1921 - 21 January 2002) was a German professor of philosophy and a sociologist.
  • Between 1969 and 1989 he was the director of the East Berlin based Institute for Marxism–Leninism.Günter Heyden was born in Stargard, a small industrial town and railway junction a short distance to the east of Stettin.
  • His father was a qualified oven engineer.
  • After leaving school he trained for and entered his father's profession.
  • In 1941 he was conscripted for military service.
  • In March 1945 he was captured by the Americans and then transferred to the Soviets, spending the nearly five years, till December 1949, as a prisoner of war.
  • During his final six months of detention, between July and December 1949, he benefitted from a period of political education at a Soviet Antifascist Academy.He returned early in 1950 to what had recently, in October 1949, been relaunched as the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), a separated Soviet sponsored German state with political and socio-economic structures consciously modelled on those of the Soviet Union itself.
  • He promptly joined the new nation's ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED).
  • In 1950/51 he taught at the Trades Union Federation Academy in Beesenstedt, latterly serving as the institution's deputy head.
  • Between 1952 and 1956 he studied at the Party Central Committee's prestigious Institute for Social Sciences ("Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften beim ZK der SED" / IfG) - as it was known at that time - emerging with a doctorate.
  • He remained at the institute, now with a succession of teaching posts, for another decade.
  • Between 1957 and 1964, and again between 1966 and 1969, he held the top teaching chair for Marxist–Leninist philosophy.
  • In 1962 he was appointed Professor of historical materialism at the institute.
  • From 1964 till 1966 he was also deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Institute for Opinion Research, also serving during this period as a member of the Politburo's Agitprop Commission.From 1964 till 1968 Heyden headed up the Philosophy department at the (East) German Academy of Sciences.
  • In 1969 he was given a full professorship at the Berlin Institute for Marxism–Leninism, where he served as director, in succession to Lothar Berthold, till 1989.
  • He also led the editorial commission for the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) on the German side.Between 1956 and 1987 he was a member of the editorial college of the "German Philosophy Journal" (der "Deutschen Zeitschrift für Philosophie"), and from 1976 till 1989 he was in addition a member of the editorial college of the SED newspaper, "Einheit" ("Unity").
  • Between 1981 and 1989 he was also a member of the national audit commission ("Zentrale Revisionskommission").Günter Heyden died in Berlin in 2002.

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