Eva Erler

Eva Erler (born October 2, 1928 in Dresden ) is a former German teacher , journalist and editor who worked in the GDR . From 1954 to 1963 she was also a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED.

Life

Erler was born in October 1928 in Dresden as the child of a poster and a housewife named Eva Grote. She attended elementary school in Bautzen from 1935 to 1943 and attended the teacher training college in Bischofswerda from May 1943 to March 1945 . After the end of the war, she became a member of the Antifa youth committee in her hometown of Bautzen and initially a member of the re-established SPD . Between August 1945 and May 1946 Erler worked as a youth helper for the Bautzen City Council. As a supporter of the unification of KPD and SPD , she was already a member of the SED from April 1946, at the age of 17 . In May 1946 she was sent on a short course for new teachers, probably because of her previous education, which she finished in August 1946. She then worked as a new teacher in the small Upper Lusatian village of Weifa until December 1948 . During this time, Erler was one of the founders of the Kinderland movement in Ostsachen, a forerunner of the pioneering organization founded in 1948 .

Probably because of a pregnancy, Erler did not return to school until 1950 and got a job in Putzkau, not far away . At the same time, in the same year, she started a distance learning course in German and history at what was then PH Leipzig , which she completed in 1953 as a subject teacher. She taught in the Upper Lusatian community until 1956, most recently even running the school. However, a lot had changed for Erler in the meantime. In 1954 she was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED at the fourth party congress of the SED at the age of just 25. She belonged to a group of young SED members who were on the III. and IV. Congress were elected to the Central Committee in greater numbers. 1954 also included Werner Felfe and Hans-Joachim Hertwig , who were of the same age . In order to be politically trained for her future party functions, Erler was delegated in 1956 to a three-year course of study at the party college "Karl Marx" , which she left in 1959 with a degree in social science . Due to her practical experience as a teacher, she also became chairwoman of the school commission of the SED district leadership in Berlin at the beginning of her studies, to which she was initially co-opted as secretary for popular education after completing her studies. As part of this activity, Erler was involved in the preparation and implementation of the law on the socialist development of the school system in the German Democratic Republic , which was mainly characterized by the introduction of the ten-class polytechnic secondary school . In June 1960, Erler was then regularly elected to the office of the SED district leadership in Berlin at the Berlin district delegate conference. She remained active in the SED district leadership until February 1963. This also ended Erler's party career, previously she was on the VI in January 1963. SED party congress has not been re-elected to the Central Committee.

The then 37-year-old now first moved to the editorial office of the SED central organ Neues Deutschland , where, due to her professional background, she mainly reported on questions of popular education. In 1966 she switched to GDR children's and youth television as an editor and stayed there until 1970. Then Erler switched back to her old job as a teacher. She initially worked as a specialist teacher at EOS Gerhart Hauptmann in Berlin-Friedrichshagen until 1972 , after which she headed the educational institution as director for 10 years until it was closed in 1982. She then worked as director of the Pedagogical District Cabinet in Berlin-Köpenick until 1988 and then retired.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 13, 1960 p. 1
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 23, 1963 p. 2

literature

• Andreas Herbst, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler: The SED History-Organization-Politics A manual 1st edition. dietz berlin 1997 ISBN 3-320-01951-1
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED cadre. The middle level. Biographical lexicon of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils from 1946 to 1989 (= Schöningh collection on history and the present ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 .