Klaus Gysi

Klaus Gysi
Gysi in 1946
State Secretary for Church Affairs
In office
November 1979 – July 1988
Chairman of the
Council of Ministers
Willi Stoph
Deputy
  • Hermann Kalb
Preceded byHans Seigewasser
Succeeded byKurt Löffler
East German Ambassador to Italy
In office
1973–1978
MinisterOskar Fischer
Preceded byEckhard Bibow (as envoy)
Succeeded byHans Voß
Minister of Culture
In office
12 January 1966 – 31 January 1973
Chairman of the
Council of Ministers
Preceded byHans Bentzien
Succeeded byHans-Joachim Hoffmann
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
for Arnstadt, Apolda, Weimar-Stadt, Weimar-Land
(Sondershausen, Nordhausen; 1967-1971)
In office
2 July 1967 – 5 April 1990
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
In office
7 October 1949 – 17 October 1954
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded bymulti-member district
Personal details
Born(1912-03-03)3 March 1912
Neukölln, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Germany)
Died6 March 1999 (1999-03-07) (aged 87)
Berlin, Germany
Political partyParty of Democratic Socialism
(1990–1999)
Other political
affiliations
Socialist Unity Party (1946–1990)
Communist Party of Germany (1931–1946)
Children7, including Gregor Gysi
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Journalist
AwardsOrder of Karl Marx

Klaus Gysi (3 March 1912 – 6 March 1999) was a journalist and publisher and a member of the French Resistance against the Nazis. After World War II, he became a politician in the German Democratic Republic, serving in the government as Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973, and from 1979 to 1988, as the State Secretary for Church Affairs. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and after German Reunification, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). His son is the German politician Gregor Gysi.