Bodo Schulz

Bodo Schulz (born August 20, 1911 in Treptow ; † March 30, 1987 in Rostock ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the FDGB district board in Schwerin and chairman of the German workers' conferences .

Life

Schulz was born the son of a post office worker, attended elementary school and learned to be a baker . He then worked in the profession. In 1929 he joined the “Fichte” workers' sports club and the KJVD . From 1929 he was an honorary member of the Reich and District Committee for the Unemployed in Germany. From 1930 to 1935 he was unemployed, from 1935 to 1940 he was a line worker and assistant to the Reichsbahn.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Schulz worked illegally for the KPD in the Berlin-Adlershof subdistrict and for the Reich Committee of the Unemployed in Berlin under the direction of Martin Weise . Schulz was involved in the distribution of the pamphlet The Jobless and agitated among the unemployed. On February 4, 1940, he was arrested and sentenced by the Berlin Court of Justice to two years and nine months in prison for “preparing for high treason ” . Schulz was imprisoned in the Emsland camp and Elbe regulation camp Griebo near Coswig (Anhalt) . After serving his sentence, he was forcibly recruited into the Penal Battalion 999 in 1942 and sent to Greece . From May 1945 to February 1947 Schulze was a British prisoner of war in Egypt .

In 1947 he returned to Germany and became a member of the SED. He initially worked as secretary of the IG Eisenbahn . In 1954 he studied at the SED party college "Karl Marx" . From 1955 to 1961 he was the first chairman of the FDGB district board in Schwerin, a candidate or member of the office of the SED district leadership and a member of the Schwerin district assembly. On June 20, 1955, he was elected to the FDGB Federal Executive at the 4th FDGB Congress. From 1961 he was an employee of the FDGB federal executive committee. He was first a member of the Presidium, then Secretary and later Chairman of the Standing Committee of the German Workers' Conferences (successor to Karl Oltersdorf ). He held this position until June 1971.

Schulz last lived in Rostock and died at the age of 75.

Awards

• Fritz Heckert Medal
• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959), silver (1971) and gold (1981)
• Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1986)

literature

• 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. 824.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 7 [letter S]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 158.
• Andreas Herbst : Schulz, Bodo. 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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 6, 1963, p. 2.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 26, 1971, p. 5.
3. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland , April 22, 1987, p. 7.