Klaus Gysi

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 by	Hans Seigewasser
Succeeded by	Kurt Löffler
East German Ambassador to Italy
	In office; 1973–1978
Minister	Oskar Fischer
Preceded by	Eckhard Bibow (as envoy)
Succeeded by	Hans Voß
Minister of Culture
	In office; 12 January 1966 – 31 January 1973
Chairman of the; Council of Ministers	Willi Stoph;
Preceded by	Hans Bentzien
Succeeded by	Hans-Joachim Hoffmann
Preceded by
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 by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
	In office; 7 October 1949 – 17 October 1954
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Personal details
Born	3 March 1912; Neukölln, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Germany)
Died	6 March 1999 (aged 87); Berlin, Germany
Political party	Party of Democratic Socialism; (1990–1999)
Other political; affiliations	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1990); Communist Party of Germany (1931–1946)
Children	7, including Gregor Gysi
Occupation	Politician; Journalist;
Awards	Order 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.