Heinz Zöger (19 November 1915 in Leipzig – 21 March 2000 in Berlin) was a German political journalist.
After the Second World War, almost all of which he had spent in prisons in Germany,[1] he joined the German Communist Party (KPD / Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) and held senior positions in what became the East German Broadcasting Corporation.
[6] In July of the same year, he was sentenced to a prison term along with Walter Janka, then in charge of the Aufbau-Verlag, a major East German publishing house, Gustav Just and Richard Wolf for crimes against Article 6 of the East German Constitution.
In May 1990, the East German Supreme Court set aside the judgement of 1957 under which Zöger had been sentenced.
[8] He later obtained a job as an editor with Cologne-based West German national broadcaster, Westdeutscher Rundfunk.