Gerhart Eisler

Gerhart Eisler
Gerhart Eisler
	Eisler in 1946
Chairman of the; State Committee for Broadcasting
	In office; 30 March 1962 – 21 March 1968
Preceded by	Hermann Ley
Succeeded by	Reginald Grimmer
Member of the; Provisional Volkskammer
	In office; 30 May 1949 – 19 October 1950
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Personal details
Born	20 February 1897; Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died	21 March 1968 (aged 71); Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Party	KPÖ (1918–1920); KPD (1920–1949); SED (after 1949)
Spouse(s)	Hede Tune (m. 1919; div. 1923); Elli Tune (m. 1923; div. 1933); Hilde Vogel-Rothstein (m. 1942)
Children	Anna
Parents	Rudolf Eisler (father); Marie Fischer (mother);
Relatives	Hanns Eisler (brother); Ruth Fischer (sister)
Education	University of Vienna
Military service
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary
Branch/service	Austro-Hungarian Army
Years of service	1915–1918
Rank	Leutnant
Battles/wars	World War I
	Espionage activity
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service branch	Comintern; Main Intelligence Directorate
Service years	1929–1935; 1941–1946
	Central institution membership 1949–1950, 1967–1968: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1927–1929, 1935–1937: Full member,; KPD Politburo ; Other offices held 1956–1962: Deputy Chairman,; State Committee for Broadcasting ; 1949–1952: Head,; Office for Information ;

Gerhart Eisler (20 February 1897 – 21 March 1968) was a German politician, editor and journalist. Along with his sister Ruth Fischer, he was a very early member of the Austrian German Communist Party (KPDÖ) and then a prominent member of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic.