Bruno Mahlow

Bruno Brunowitsch Mahlow (27 June 1937 – 22 February 2023) was a German politician (SED/PDS/Die Linke) and an East German diplomat.

Biography Bruno Mahlow was born in Moscow, Soviet Union on 27 June 1937. His eponymous father ( 1899–1964) had been a founder member of the German Communist Party back in 1918, and after fifteen years as a party activist had emigrated from his Berlin home, via Prague, to Moscow two months after the Hitler government took power at the start of 1933, which is how Bruno Brunowitsch Mahlow and arrested, but the next year, gravely ill, he was released. between 1964 and 1967. in succession to Günter Sieber. Personal contacts were important in Mahlow's career. As a child growing up in the Soviet Union his family had known fellow exile Wilhelm Pieck, who in 1949 had become the president of the German Democratic Republic.

In May 1976 Bruno Mahlow's own name was placed on the candidates' list for membership of the Party Central Committee, and in April 1981 he became one of the 156 members of the Central Committee He was also, between 1981 and 1989, head of the Foreign Policy Commission of the Central Committee Politburo, taking over the post from the German political party that has inherited its mantle and at least some of its attitudes from the East German SED party.

Mahlow died in Berlin on 22 February 2023, at the age of 85.

Awards and honours 1974: Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver 1987: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Published output

Books Bruno Mahlow: Wir stehen in der Geschichte und damit in der Verantwortung. Texte 2004 bis 2012. edition ost, Berlin 2012, (wissenschaftliche Gesamtredaktion): Internationale Arbeiterbewegung und revolutionärer Kampf in der Gegenwart. Dietz, Berlin 1973. (Leitung des Autorenkollektivs): Kommunistische Bewegung und revolutionärer Kampf. Dietz, Berlin 1979. (with Götz Dieckmann): Einführung in Lenins Schrift „Zwei Taktiken der Sozialdemokratie in der demokratischen Revolution“ . Dietz, Berlin 1980 (5th edition, 1989). (with Harald Neubert): Die Kommunisten und ihr Zusammenwirken. Dietz, Berlin 1983.

Articles Lenin über die richtige Verbindung von Nationalem und Internationalem in der Politik der kommunistischen Parteien I/II. In: Einheit, (1970) Vol 4, p. 472ff. and Vol 5, p. 662ff. Arbeiterklasse gegen Monopolkapital. In: Einheit, (1971), Vol 9, p. 1007–1016. Die Verantwortung der Kommunisten für die Sicherheit in Europa. Wandel vom Kalten Krieg zur Entspannung. In: Militärwesen (1974), Vol 9, p. 11–18. Die Kommunisten – entschiedenste Kraft in den Kämpfen unserer Zeit. In: Einheit, Jg. 40 (1985), Vol 3, p. 251–257. Höchstes Gebot: Dauerhafte Wende zur Entspannung. In: Horizont, (1987), Vol 11, p. 3–5. Auf sozialistischem Wege. Zum 40. Jahrestag der Gründung der Volksrepublik China. In: Einheit, (1989), Vol 9/10, p. 947–952. Die EU-Osterweiterung: Probleme und Chancen? (Referat auf dem Friedensratschlag Dezember 2003). Auf der Seite der AG Friedensforschung an der Universität Kassel. EU-Russland: „Risse im gemeinsamen Haus“ (Referat auf dem Friedensratschlag Dezember 2004). Auf der Seite der AG Friedensforschung an der Universität Kassel.