Counterplan
The counter-plan was an instrument of the GDR economy to urge the companies to perform higher than what was planned in the central plan . For this purpose, the working people were asked - mostly in honor of a national anniversary or public holiday - to take on additional obligations at their workplace, such as saving material, aiming for less machine downtime or achieving a target much earlier. The individual obligations or those of entire departments were summarized and generalized in the company's counterplan.
history
The counter-plan was a measure based on the Soviet model. As early as 1932, the propaganda film Der Gegenplan ( Russian Встречный ) portrayed how Leningrad workers were designing and producing the first Soviet turbines for the construction of hydropower plants ahead of schedule as part of the GOELRO plan for the electrification of Russia with a counterplan for the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution .
In the GDR, the counterplans campaign began in the 1970s and reached its first climax in 1974 in preparation for the 25th anniversary of the GDR, which can be clearly demonstrated by the appearance of the term "counterplan" in the press. A second, no longer so intense maximum is associated with the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. In the 1980s the counter-plan movement subsided sharply.
literature
- Work before celebrating . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1974
Web links
- Counterplan. In: Duden. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Course curve of the counter plan. In: DWDS - Course curves. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .