Charlotte Welm

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Charlotte Welm (born October 25, 1923 in Nowawes ) is a former trade union official of the GDR . From 1954 to 1958 she headed the industrial union for food-pleasure-restaurants (NGG) and from 1958 to 1984 the IG trade, food and pleasure (HNG).

Life

Welm was born in 1923 as Charlotte Decker in the Potsdam suburb of Nowawes as the daughter of a bricklayer. From 1928 to 1933 she belonged to the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft der Kinderfreunde (RAG). After elementary school, she completed a commercial apprenticeship at Heinis Knäckebrot-Bäckerei GmbH in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1938 to 1941 and then worked as an accountant in the company that was renamed Märkische Knäckebrot -Bäckerei until 1947. From 1938 to 1945 it was organized in the German Labor Front (DAF).

After the end of the war she was also elected chairwoman of the works council. In 1945 she first joined the re-established Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became a member of it when the SED was founded . In 1945 she also became a member of the newly created Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). In 1946 she was elected to the Brandenburg State Board and the central board of the IG food-gourmet restaurants. After attending a special course for members of the central board, in February 1947 she became the women's and youth leader of the regional board of IG food-gourmet restaurants. She worked full-time on the state board. From March 1949 to October 1951 she headed the IG regional association as chairwoman. In 1949 she became a member of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and in 1950 of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD). In 1950 she was a member of the special commission to review the members and candidates of the SED. From November 1951 to November 1952 she studied at the trade union college in Bernau near Berlin . She then moved to Berlin , where she worked on the IG central board from December 1, 1952 to August 31, 1954 as head of department for social and health care and secretary of the central board. From 1952 she was a member of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) and from 1953 the SED company party organization on the central board of the union.

On September 1, 1954, Charlotte Meyhöfer, who was still married at the time, took over the chairmanship of the IG food- gourmet restaurants as the successor to Willi Klevesath . On June 20, 1955, she was elected at the 4th FDGB Congress as a member of the Presidium of the FDGB Federal Executive. At the beginning of August 1955 she married Heinz Welm and took his name.

After the structural changes of the individual unions, the IG food-enjoyment-restaurants , the trade union and parts of the local economy to be dissolved were merged to form the trade union trade, food and enjoyment . At the 1st Central Conference of Delegates on April 24, 1958, Charlotte Welm was elected chairman of the new union. At the 5th FDGB Congress in October 1959, she was no longer elected to the Presidium and was only a simple member of the Federal Board. In 1960/61 the trade unionist completed a one-year course at the Karl Marx party college. Then she was re-confirmed as a member of the Presidium at the 12th meeting of the FDGB Federal Executive Committee on December 16, 1961.

Between 1965 and 1967 she also studied at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst, which she completed with a degree in business administration. During this time she was represented by Heinz Hertel . In August 1967 she took over the chairmanship of the union again and did not leave the function until the end of August 1984. She was a member of the FDGB federal executive until 1987 and the executive committee of the federal executive until 1984.

In 1971 the FDGB nominated her for the first time as a candidate for the Volkskammer elections. She sat in the GDR parliament for two electoral terms until 1981 as a member of the GDR unified trade union and was a member of the Committee on Trade and Supply. In 1984 Welm retired.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium and secretariat of the FDGB federal executive committee . In: Neues Deutschland , June 21, 1955, p. 3.
  2. ^ Congratulations from the Presidium of the Federal Board of the FDGB on the wedding on August 4, 1955. In: Bundesarchiv - Büro Warnke DY 34/23692.
  3. ↑ Trade Union for Trade, Food and Enjoyment - Federal Archives (accessed April 8, 2017).
  4. ↑ 12th meeting of the federal executive committee - BArch, DY 34/26878 (accessed on April 8, 2017).
  5. ↑ Harry Tisch at the Trade, Food and Enjoyment Union . In: Neues Deutschland, September 1, 1984, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland from April 27, 1974 p. 5
  7. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 5, 1983 p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Welm, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decker, Charlotte (maiden name); Meyhöfer, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowawes