Elvira Lippitz

Elvira Lippitz (born December 5, 1927 in Jävenitz , Gardelegen district ) is a former German politician of the SED .

Life

Elvira Lippitz was born as the daughter of a bricklayer in the Altmark . She attended the girls' elementary school in Gardelegen and from 1942 to 1945 the teacher training college in Havelberg .

After the war she earned her family's living as a seamstress . After attending the trade union school in Beesenstedt from 1948 on, she worked as a teacher at the trade union school in Alsleben (Saale) from 1949 . From 1950 she headed the central school of the trade union for trade and supply in Grünheide (Mark) and gave lectures at the university of the trade unions in Bernau . Later she was secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership Zossen and from 1958 head of the educational facility in the VEB heavy machinery construction " Heinrich Rau " in Wildau .

Elvira Lippitz acquired in distance learning at the Party School "Karl Marx" in Berlin to conclude a diploma - social scientist . At the Pedagogical University of Potsdam she completed a teaching degree for German and history, which she completed as a graduate teacher.

After her husband, a major in the People's Police , was transferred to Brandenburg (Havel) , she took over the management of the educational facility of the local SED district leadership. From 1965 to 1976 she was First Deputy Mayor of the City of Brandenburg.

On February 14, 1976 she was elected to the secretariat of the Brandenburg SED district leadership and on February 16, 1976 she succeeded Reinhold Kietz in the office of Lord Mayor of Brandenburg, which she held until December 20, 1985.

Awards and honors

• 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• Ivry-sur-Seine , the French twin town of Brandenburg an der Havel, made Elvira Lippitz an honorary citizen in 1983 because of her personal merits .

literature

• Font: Well-known Brandenburg women, Brandenburg City Museum on the Havel
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , pp. 191-192.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from August 17, 1988
2. ^ Märkische Volksstimme from February 17, 1976
3. ^ New Germany of December 21, 1985
4. ↑ Brandenburg an der Havel (Allemagne) ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . ivry94.fr. Accessed December 4, 2014.