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Fritz Danke (born July 6, 1909 in Dresden ; † December 1979 ) was a German SED functionary and union functionary. He was state chairman of IG Metall in Saxony and district chairman of the FDGB in Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Life

Thank you, son of a decorative painter, completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer after primary school . He worked in his profession, later also as a stoker and trimmer, among others for the shipping company HAPAG . Before 1933 he was a member of SAP. Dank did his military service from 1940 to 1945 in the Navy . In 1945 he was briefly in Italy as an American prisoner of war .

After returning to Germany, he was initially a mechanical engineer again. In 1945 he became a member of the SPD and in 1946 a member of the FDGB and with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD a member of the SED.

From 1946 he was secretary of the Dresden local board of IG Metall and a member of the Saxony regional board of IG Metall, then in 1947/48 its first chairman of IG Metall in Saxony. From 1948 to 1952 he was a member of the state board of the FDGB Saxony and from 1948 to July 1950 he was second chairman of the FDGB state board of Saxony. From 1950 to 1952 he was again first chairman of the state executive committee of IG Metall Saxony. From 1952 to 1964 he was chairman of the FDGB district executive in Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt . From 1955 he was a candidate and from 1959 to 1968 he was a member of the FDGB federal executive committee.

In June 1951 he became a member of the SED state committee in Saxony and was a member of it until the districts were formed in August 1952. He was then from 1952 to 1963 a member of the SED district leadership in Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt. He later headed the forecasting working group at the FDGB district executive in the Dresden district .

From 1950 to 1952 Thank You for the FDGB belonged to the Saxon state parliament , later he was a member of the district assembly of Karl-Marx-Stadt.

From 1951 to 1954 he completed a correspondence course at the party college "Karl Marx" , from 1957 to 1960 a correspondence course at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst, which he graduated with a degree in economics.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. 2nd, unchanged edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 885.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 112.
  • Detlev Brunner (ed.): The change of the FDGB to a communist mass organization. The minutes of the Bitterfeld conference of the FDGB on 25./26. November 1948 (= publications of the Institute for Research into the European Labor Movement. Series B: Sources and Documents. Vol. 4). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-479-8 , p. 70.

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personal data
SURNAME Thank you, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, FDGB functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 1979