Gysi

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Gysi is a surname of Swiss-German origin. [1] Notable people with the surname include:

Gregor Gysi German lawyer and politician

Gregor Gysi is a German attorney and key politician of the political party The Left.

Klaus Gysi German Resistance fighter against the Nazis, East German politician, East German Minister of Culture

Klaus Gysi was a journalist and publisher and a member of the French Resistance against the Nazis. After World War II, he became a politician in the German Democratic Republic, serving in the government as Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973, and from 1979 to 1988, as the State Secretary for Church Affairs. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and after German Reunification, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). His son is the German politician Gregor Gysi.

Willy Gysi was a Swiss field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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  1. "Gysi Surname Distribution". forebears.io. Retrieved April 8, 2018. Approximately 1,176 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Switzerland; Highest density in: Switzerland.