Fritz Rösel

Fritz Rösel (born March 25, 1926 in Heidenau near Dresden ; † July 9, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Rösel, son of a working class family, learned after visiting the elementary school from 1940 to 1942 the profession of shoe skilled worker, which he held until the 1947th

In 1945 he joined the KPD and the FDGB, in 1946 he became a member of the SED . From 1945 to 1947 he was a youth works council, then from 1947 to 1948 he was youth secretary at the state board of Saxony of IG Leder . From 1949 to 1951 he was an employee or secretary of the central board of IG Textile-Clothing-Leather . From 1952 to 1956 he studied at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED with a degree in social science . From 1956 to 1959 he was a member of the federal board of the FDGB and head of the training and agitation, press and propaganda department. From 1959 to 1962 he worked as deputy chairman of the central executive committee of the IG Textile-Clothing-Leather. Rösel became Dr. rer. oec. PhD . On December 16, 1961, he was co-opted as a member of the FDGB's federal executive committee (BuV) at the 12th meeting of the FDGB federal executive board, and on May 11, 1962, at the 13th meeting, he was elected member of the executive committee and secretary of the federal executive board. There he was responsible for social security, vacation service, employee benefits and union support. On December 7, 1989, he announced his resignation from his trade union functions.

From 1967 Rösel was also an FDGB member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the committee for labor and social policy. On January 11, 1990, he resigned his Volkskammer mandate. From 1973 to 1981 Rösel was President of the GDR-Belgium Friendship Society .

After the fall of the Wall , Rösel was a member of the PDS and a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1965), in silver (1970) and in gold (1986)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Order " Banner of Labor " (1974)
• Honorary title " Hero of Labor " (1978)

Works

• The significance and development of the economic branch wage group catalogs in the context of the socialist wage system in the German Democratic Republic . IfG at the Central Committee of the SED, Berlin 1960 (dissertation).
• How do we work with the WLK? Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1962.
• What do the prices concern me? For the second stage of the industrial reform . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1965 (together with Lothar Langbein ).
• The new quality of social policy after the 7th Party Congress and the 7th FDGB Congress . University of the German trade unions "Fritz Heckert", Bernau 1968.
• On some questions about the further implementation of the trade unions' social policy . Federal Executive of the FDGB (Agitation and Propaganda Department), Berlin 1973.

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 261.
• 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. 732.
• Andreas Herbst : Rösel, Fritz. 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.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Rösel, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FDGB federal board advised . In: Neues Deutschland , May 15, 1962, p. 3.
2. ↑ FDGB federal board meets on Saturday . In: Neues Deutschland , December 8, 1989, p. 2.
3. ↑ Removed and new MPs . In: Neues Deutschland , January 12, 1990, p. 1.