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Günter Schabowski ([ˈɡʏntɐ ʃaˈbɔvski]; 4 January 1929 – 1 November 2015) was an East German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands abbreviated SED), the ruling party during most of the existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Nov 10, 2015 · Günter Schabowski’s press conference in November 1989 helped trigger the collapse of the Berlin wall. Was it really as much of an accident as we like to think?
- Tereza Novotna
Günter Schabowski (* 4. Januar 1929 in Anklam; † 1. November 2015 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Journalist und Politiker. Er war in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik von 1978 bis 1985 Chefredakteur des SED - Zentralorgans Neues Deutschland und danach bis 1989 Erster Sekretär der SED- Bezirksleitung von Ost-Berlin.
Nov 2, 2015 · BERLIN — Günter Schabowski, whose bumbling answer to a reporter’s question on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, inadvertently led throngs of East Germans to force their way across the Berlin Wall ...
Nov 6, 2015 · What to make, then, of Günter Schabowski, who died this week at age 86. Few people will mark the passing of this improbable man of destiny, who made Cold War history with a shrug. It was the ...
Nov 1, 2015 · A senior East German official whose impromptu announcement at a news conference led to the demise of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has died aged 86. Guenter Schabowski said travel restrictions on the...
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The Man Who Said to Open the Wall: Günter Schabowski. Günter Schabowski came of age during the early years of the Cold War. Studying journalism at Karl Marx University in Leipzig, Schabowski rose through the ranks of the East German media world before becoming the chief editor of the leading Communist Party-controlled newspaper Neues ...
