Einheit – Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis des Wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus (English: Unity – Journal for Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism) was the theoretical journal of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
History The first issue of the journal was published in February 1946 preparation of the merger of the Communist Party of Germany and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Prior to the merger the journal was published jointly by central committees of the KPD and SPD.Simone Barck, Martina Langermann, Siegfried Lokatis (Hrsg.): Zwischen „Mosaik“ und „Einheit“ – Zeitschriften in der DDR. Ch. Links, Berlin 1999 The editorial board members of Einheit and also, of Neuer Weg, another official journal, were closely oversaw by the wife of Walter Ulbricht, Lotte Kühn.
The journal contained articles with theoretical content, in particular on the history of the labor movement and on philosophical and economic questions. The authors of the contributions were leading SED functionaries,Fred Oelßner: Ein klassisches Werk des wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus, Heft 10/1956 senior employees of central party institutes such as the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, the Academy for Social Sciences, the party school and other theory-oriented cadres.Kurt Tiedtke: Die wachsende Führungsrolle der Arbeiterklasse und ihrer marxistisch-leninistischen Partei, Heft 8/1986
The magazine discontinued after German reunification in 1989.
Editors and publishers
The editorial department of the Einheit was also a department of the Central Committee of the SED, so its editors-in-chief were also central committee department heads. Editors-in-chief were:
1946: Emmi Dölling (for the KPD) 1946: Max Seydewitz (for the SPD) 1946–1950: Klaus Zweiling 1950–1951: Gertrud Keller 1956–1972: Hans Schaul 1972–1989: Manfred Banaschak The responsible secretaries in the Central Committee of the SED for the Einheit were: 1949: Otto Grotewohl 1950–1953: Fred Oelßner 1956–1958: Walter Ulbricht 1967–1989: Kurt Hager
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