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Klaus Gysi

German Resistance fighter against the Nazis

Died when: 87 years 3 days (1044 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Klaus Gysi

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.


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