Kurt Hager
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Kurt Hager in 1984.
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| Born |
Leonard Kurt Hager July 24, 1912 Bietigheim, Württemberg |
| Died | September 18, 1998 (aged 86) Berlin |
| Resting place | Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | East German statesman |
| Known for | Chief ideologist of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany |
Kurt Hager (24 July 1912 – 18 September 1998) was an East German statesman, a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany who was known as the chief ideologist of the party and decided many cultural and educational policies in East Germany.
Hager was born at Bietigheim,Württemberg. The son of a laborer and a cleaner, he passed the high school exam (Abitur) in 1931, after a visit of Primary and High School. He was a member of the YMCA and Socialist Federal Student, worked as a journalist and entered the KPD in 1930, and the Red Front fighters covenant in 1932. In 1933 he took part in a sabotage against Hitler's first speech on the radio ("Cable assassination"), was arrested and sent to the KZ Heuberg. After a brief detention, he emigrated in 1936.
Until 1937, he worked as a courier for the Communist youth organization of Germany in Switzerland, France and the CSR. From 1937 to 1939 he participated in the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, where he worked for the "German freedom broadcasting station" and the foreign radio program from Madrid.
In 1939 he was detained in France and then emigrated to England. There he was responsible for the international organization of the KPD active, writing under the pseudonym "Felix Albin". After the outbreak of war, he was interned, first in an internment camp at Huyton near Liverpool, and later on the Isle of Man.
In 1945 Hager returned to Berlin. Until 1946 he first worked as forestry worker and welder, and later as a journalist for the magazine "Freie Tribüne".
Upon his return, he was deputy chief editor of the "Forward" and graduated 1948, a lecturer in the course of the Parteihochschule "Karl Marx" Kleinmachnow and in 1949 he became a full professor for philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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