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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).
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 1, 2015 · A senior East German official whose impromptu announcement at a news conference led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dies aged 86.
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
Nov 6, 2015 · It gives people agency. It underscores how much the individual matters. It proves the power of one: Günter Schabowski and his seven minutes that shook the world.
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 1, 2015 · Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died aged 86, German media reported on Sunday.
