Christa Zellmer

Christa Zellmer (née Holzheuer ; born November 5, 1930 in Ströbitz ; † October 14, 2002 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German politician ( SED ). In 1988/1989 she was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Zellmer was born into a working class family. After attending primary school, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as a retail saleswoman. In June 1947 she became a member of the SED. In 1950 she took over the management of a youth outlet in Cottbus. From 1952 to 1965 she worked as secretary of the DFD district association Frankfurt (Oder). After studying at the party college "Karl Marx" with a degree in social science , she was employed as a secretary at the district council in 1965/1966 . She then acted from February 1966 to November 1988 as secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) (successor to Wilfried Maaß ).

Zellmer was a candidate from June 1971 and from June 1975 to December 1989 a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

On November 3, 1988, Zellmer succeeded the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder), Hans-Joachim Hertwig , who died at the end of September . It was the first and only time that a woman became the first secretary of an SED district leadership. On November 15, 1989, she resigned with the entire secretariat of the SED district leadership and justified the resignation from the joint responsibility for the pent-up problems in the district.

Fonts

Land on the river of friendship. Or district in words and pictures . District leadership of the SED, Frankfurt (Oder) 1969.
Who, if not we. Frankfurt (Oder), a district with profile and perspective . District leadership of the SED, Frankfurt (Oder) 1971.

Awards

Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1969) and in silver (1976)

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. 1042.
Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1124.
Andreas Malycha, Peter Jochen Winters : The SED. History of a German party . CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59231-7 , p. 296f.
Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 536.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Zellmer, Christa . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

^ New SED district secretaries elected . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 1989, p. 2.

personal data
SURNAME	Zellmer, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holzheuer, Christa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH	5th November 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ströbitz (Cottbus)
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 2002
Place of death	Frankfurt (Oder)

[1] New SED district secretaries elected . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 1989, p. 2.