Ernst Schladitz

Ernst Schladitz (born January 27, 1935 in Langenweddingen ) is a former German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the Magdeburg district board of the FDGB and a candidate for the SED central committee .

Life

Schladitz was born into a working-class family and attended elementary school . He learned the trade of machine fitter and worked in this profession. Between 1960 and 1962 he qualified as a master craftsman in evening classes and from 1965 to 1969 he completed a distance learning course at the engineering school for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering with a degree as an engineer-economist.

In 1958 Schladitz joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1962 to 1965 he was deputy BGL chairman, from 1965 to 1969 BGL chairman in the Magdeburg-Buckau main plant of the VEB heavy machine construction combine "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET). From 1969 he acted as chairman of the combine union management. From 1963 he was a candidate and from 1969 to 1989 a member of the FDGB federal executive committee, from 1972 also of its presidium. From April 1981 Schladitz was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . From March 13, 1982 to March 1990, he acted as chairman of the Magdeburg district board of the FDGB. On April 16, 1982 he was co-opted into the SED district leadership in Magdeburg and elected to the secretariat of the district leadership.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1974)
• Artur Becker Gold Medal (1977)
• Fritz Heckert Medal in Gold (1978)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 278.
• 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. 778.
• Andreas Herbst : Schladitz, Ernst . 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, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Volksstimme , April 17, 1982, p. 1.
2. ↑ Junge Welt, October 8, 1977.