| LC control no. | n 91044380 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Schabowski, Günter |
| Variant(s) | Schabowski, Guenter |
| Birth date | 1929-01-04 |
| Death date | 2015-11-01 |
| Place of birth | Anklam (Germany) |
| Place of death | Berlin (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Germany (East)--Politics and government Journalism Communism |
| Affiliation | Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. Zentralkomitee. Politbüro |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Journalists |
| Found in | His das Politbüro, 1990: t.p. (Günter Schabowski) p. 199 (b. 01/04/1929) LC data base, 05-03-91 (hdg.: Schabowski, Günter) Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 2, 2015 (Guenter Schabowski; died Nov. 1 [2015] in a Berlin nursing home; he was 86; born Jan. 4, 1929, in Anklam, Germany; rose through the ranks of East Germany's media after World War II and became the chief editor of Neues Deutschland, the main Communist Party-controlled newspaper, in 1978; became a member of the ruling Politburo in 1984; in October 1989, Mr. Schabowski, then the Communist Party chief in East Berlin, became the first Politburo member to talk to opposition leaders) |
| Associated language | ger |
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