Frieda Köckeritz

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Frieda Köckeritz (born October 11, 1910 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German social democrat and a functionary of the SED in the GDR. From 1946 to 1952 she was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg and in 1948/1949 a member of the German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber.

Life

Köckeritz was born in Gelsenkirchen, but grew up in a working-class family in Danzig . After attending elementary school, she completed a home economics course and initially worked as a saleswoman in a grocery store. At the age of 14 she entered the socialist youth workers during her first apprenticeship . After working in the grocery store, Köckeritz worked in the consumer and savings cooperative. Within this sales organization, she rose from the position of warehouse keeper to a branch manager. Upon reaching the age of 18, Köckeritz became a member of the SPD . After the SPD split in 1931, it joined the newly founded SAPD , which was still active for some time despite the Nazi seizure of power in Danzig. Köckeritz was therefore a member of the SAPD board until 1936. From 1934 she ran her own business, which was shut down in 1941. She then worked as a temporary worker in the Gdansk city administration until the end of the war.

As part of the flight of many Germans from Poland, Köckeritz first ended up in Barth in Western Pomerania . There she first rejoined the SPD in August 1945, on whose Mecklenburg executive board she was employed until the unification party conference in April 1946. After the founding of the SED, Köckeritz, who had administrative experience, was appointed head of the Labor and Social Welfare Department of the SED State Board of Mecklenburg. In the first post-war state elections on October 20, 1946, she was elected to the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament for the SED. She also belonged to this parliament in the second electoral period from 1950 to 1952. In addition, Köckeritz was elected to the 1st German People's Council as an SED member in March 1948. As a result, she was also a member of the 2nd German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber. In 1949, Köckeritz first ended her work on the SED state executive and completed a one-year course at the SED party college . Then she was employed in Rostock in a leading position in the SED district leadership Rostock-Stadt. In addition, she was temporarily employed as secretary of the SED basic organization in the republic-wide important VEB fish combine Rostock . Because of the importance of her party function, she was also a member of the SED district leadership in Rostock from 1958 to 1964 and was elected as a candidate for the SED Central Committee at the 5th SED party congress. On the following VI. At the party congress she was not reaffirmed in this function. Only honors as a party veteran are known about Frieda Köckeritz's further life after 1964.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Germany. March 8, 1958, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung. October 4, 1985, p. 6.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Köckeritz, Frieda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wollermann, Frieda; Wollermann-Köckeritz, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, Member of the State Parliament; MdPVK
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century