Arthur Czadzeck

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Arthur Czadzeck (born May 10, 1929 in Marquardt ; † July 25, 2018 in Potsdam ) was a German FDGB and SED functionary. He was chairman of the FDGB district committee in Potsdam and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Czadzeck, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school and completed an administration and finance apprenticeship from 1943 to 1946. In 1946 he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and took over union functions. From 1947 to 1952 he worked as a clerk in the Brandenburg state government. In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1953 to 1955 he acted as first secretary of the SED district leadership Potsdam-Mitte and from 1955 to 1957 of the SED district leadership Potsdam-Land. From 1957 to 1960 he held the function of secretary of the SED company party organization in VEB Lokomotivbau "Karl Marx" in Potsdam-Babelsberg and was from 1956 to 1960 a member of the Potsdam district council . In June 1960, he succeeded Kurt Thiele as chairman of the FDGB district committee in Potsdam. As a result, he became a member of the SED district leadership in Potsdam and its office and, from 1967, its secretariat. From 1961 he was a member of the FDGB federal executive board and from 1961 to 1969 its presidium. He completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" from 1960 to 1967 as a graduate social scientist.

As head of an FDGB delegation, he was received in Hanoi in September 1964 by the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Hồ Chí Minh .

From October 1963 to March 1990 he was a member of the Potsdam District Assembly and at times chairman of the Standing Commission on Construction and Value Preservation of the District Assembly . From 1978 to 1989 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front . In June 1986 he was delegated to the People's Chamber and, as a member of the FDGB parliamentary group, was a member of the constitutional and legal committee.

In the course of the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he resigned as chairman of the FDGB district committee in Potsdam on November 20, 1989, but remained a member of the people's chamber and the district assembly until the first free parliamentary election in March 1990.

Czadzeck was married and the father of three children. He died at the age of 89.

Awards

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period, Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 227.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 106. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Andreas Herbst : Czadzeck, Arthur. In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 , Berlin 2009. (Accessed November 9, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reception at Ho Chi Minh . In: Neues Deutschland , September 25, 1964, p. 8.
  2. ^ New FDGB boss officiates in Potsdam . In: Grandstand from November 21, 1989.
  3. ↑ Short portrait of Arthur Czadzeck . In: Grandstand from July 18, 1979.
  4. ^ Obituary notice in the MAZ from August 11, 2018 (accessed on August 18, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Czadzeck, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German FDGB functionary and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marquardt
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2018
Place of death Potsdam