Heinz Geggel

Heinz Geggel
Heinz Geggel
	Geggel in his 1996 USC Shoah Foundation interview
Head of the; Central Committee Agitation Department
	In office; December 1973 – November 1989
Secretary	Werner Lamberz; Joachim Herrmann; Günter Schabowski;
Preceded by	Hans Modrow
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Head of the; Central Committee West Department
	In office; 1965 – December 1973
Secretary	Albert Norden;
Preceded by	Arne Rehan
Succeeded by	Herbert Häber
Personal details
Born	11 November 1921; Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Died	15 November 2000 (aged 79); Berlin, Germany
Party	Socialist Unity Party; (1948–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Germany; (1944–1948)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy;
Occupation	Party Functionary; Journalist;
	Central institution membership 1971–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; 1963–1971: Candidate member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1963–1965: Deputy Head,; West Commission at the Politburo ; 1957–1960: Director,; Deutschlandsender ; 1956–1960: Deputy Chairman,; State Broadcasting Committee ;

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Heinz Geggel (11 November 1921 – 15 November 2000) was an East German journalist and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Born to a Jewish family of merchants, Geggel fled Nazi Germany to Cuba, where he was involved with the Communist resistance to the Nazis. After the war he returned to the Soviet occupation zone, where he became a journalist. Geggel served as the longtime head of the powerful Central Committee Agitation Department where he played a pivotal role in the censorship of the East German press. He infamously became known as "Dr. Geggels" (in reference to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels) among the journalists he directed and controlled.