Anna Posselt

Anna Posselt (née Scholze ; born December 28, 1914 in Althabendorf ; † October 22, 2009 ) was a German FDGB functionary. She was chairman of the central committee of the textile-clothing-leather industrial union .

Life

Anna Posselt, daughter of a textile workers' family, attended elementary school and worked from 1929 to 1945 as a skilled weaver and assistant in various companies in the textile industry , in trade and in agriculture . In 1929 she joined the Communist Youth Association, in 1930 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch) and the Textile Workers Association. At times she was also a member of the Reichenberg district leadership of the KPTsch and a member of the board of the Red Trade Unions ( Rudé odbory in Czech ).

In December 1945 she was resettled in the Soviet occupation zone and became a member of the KPD . In 1946 she became a member of the SED and the FDGB. From 1946 to 1950 she was city councilor for social and health services and youth issues in Wismar and a member of the SED district leadership. Then she studied from 1950 to 1951 at the party college "Karl Marx" . From 1951 to February 1990 she was a member of the central board of IG Textile-Clothing-Leather in the FDGB. From 1953 to 1975 she was chairwoman of the central board of IG Textile-Clothing-Leather. From 1952 to December 1989 Anna Posselt was also a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB and from August 1952 to November 1963 a member of the executive committee of the federal executive committee.

From 1952 to 1976 Anna Posselt was also a member of the executive bodies of the international associations of trade unions in the textile, clothing and leather and hide industries in the WGB .

From 1977 to 1989 she acted as chairwoman of the veterans commission at the federal board of the FDGB. She last lived in Berlin.

Awards in the GDR

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1964) and Gold (1974)
• Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1979)
• Honorary title of Honored Worker in the Light, Food and Food Industry of the German Democratic Republic (1984)
• Order of Star of People's Friendship in gold (1989)

literature

• Jan Foitzik: Management transfer. The organized deployment of Sudeten German communists in the Soviet occupation zone 1945/46 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 31 (1983), pp. 308–334 (on Posselt, p. 331).
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 261.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 664.
• Heike van Hoorn : New home in socialism. The resettlement and integration of Sudeten German Antifa resettlers in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Klartext, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-241-4 , p. 340.
• Andreas Herbst: Posselt, Anna . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Anni Posselt . In: Neues Deutschland , December 28, 1974, p. 2.
2. ↑ Worker veteran Anna Posselt, Berlin . In: Neue Zeit , October 3, 1989, p. 2.