Activist movement
The activist movement was a state-propagated mass initiative to increase productivity in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR .
According to official reports in the GDR, the Hauer Adolf Hennecke achieved a daily norm of 387% on October 13, 1948 through appropriate work preparation and organization, creating a mass movement to achieve increased work productivity and, as a result, better and better conditions for a planned improvement in work and work Should have triggered living conditions.
At the time the activist movement was propagated as the new, socialist attitude of the working people to work. October 13th was stylized in the GDR as the anniversary of Adolf Hennecke's groundbreaking act and henceforth celebrated as activists' day. Working people who achieved extraordinary performance in the competition in fulfilling the plan were awarded the state title Activist of the Two- Year Plan ( 1949 and 1950), Honored Activist (1951 and 1952), Activist of the Five-Year Plan (from 1953), Activist of the Seven- Year Plan (from 1960) or activist of socialist work (from 1969).
From 1952, the activist movement expanded to include trade. It aimed at higher productivity and higher sales, and served to reduce the considerable shortages of supply. The trade organization founded in 1948 was a pioneer , but the consumer cooperatives quickly followed suit. The young Moscow saleswoman Sina Rybakowa, who advocated socialist competition for individual shops, increased training and political and social engagement, served as a first model . After the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 , GDR activists were increasingly highlighted, such as the Leipzig sales point manager Gretel Heinicke. She promoted the saucepan method, which presented customers with a daily recipe and the necessary foods.
As part of the socialist competition initiated , similar incentives were created in other areas, such as the innovator , rationalizer and inventor movement . As the next higher level of the activist movement, socialist community work was propagated, which linked and continued the aforementioned movements.
Source / literature
- Ehlert / Joswig / Luchterhand / Stiemerling: Dictionary of the economy socialism . Dietz-Verlag Berlin 1969
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED : History of the German Workers' Movement , Volume 7, From 1949 to 1955 . Author collective: Walter Ulbricht u. A., page 13 and page 37, Dietz Verlag
- ↑ uwespiekermann: A socialist heroine: Gretel Heinicke and the saucepan method . In: Uwe Spiekermann. October 11, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 (German).
