Charlotte Eppinger

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Charlotte Eppinger (born Taubenheim ; born January 19, 1915 in Brieske ; † June 16, 1971 ) was a German politician ( SED ), foreign trade official and diplomat of the GDR .

Life

Eppinger came from a social democratic working class family. Her father was a miner , her mother worked in a brick factory . Eppinger attended elementary school in Grube Marga , then until 1931 the municipal business school in Senftenberg .

In 1931 she joined the SAJ . In 1931/32 she worked as a correspondent for the city council of Senftenberg, in 1932/33 she was unemployed. From 1933 to 1936 she worked as a saleswoman in Hörlitz , then from 1936 to 1939 as a stenographer at the Lauta power plant in Schweinfurth and Kleinmachnow . From 1939 to 1942 she worked as a secretary in Hohenbocka . In 1943/44 she was a housewife and in 1944/45 she worked as an industrial clerk in Senftenberg.

After the war , from May 1945 she did voluntary work in Brieske . In October 1945 she joined the SPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. In 1946/47 she was department head in the municipal administration, then from 1947 to 1949 mayor of the municipality of Brieske. From December 1949 to July 1952 she acted as Second Secretary of the Brandenburg State Management of the SED, responsible for women, finances and the business department. In 1949/50 she was a member of the Second German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR .

From January to June 1950 she attended the SED state party school in Schmerwitz . From August 1952 to April 1956 she was the first deputy chairman of the DRK Central Committee. From 1954 she was a member of the executive committee of the German League for the United Nations.

In 1956/57 she was head of department in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade . From February 1957 to March 1961 she acted as deputy general director, from March 1961 to August 1963 as general director of the foreign trade company DIA Kulturwaren. From 1963 to 1965 she was deputy general director of the foreign trade company DIA Glas-Keramik. From 1965 to June 1971 she worked as the first attachée of the trade policy department at the embassy of the GDR in the People's Republic of Poland in Warsaw .

Awards

literature

  • Eberhard Funk: The German League for the United Nations (= Politica series , volume 25). Kovač, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-86064-535-8 , p. 284.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , pp. 925f.
  • Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 172.