Gerda Holzmacher

Gerda Holzmacher (born January 11, 1915 in Magdeburg ; † September 26, 1980 ) was a German SED functionary. She was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and chairman of the District Party Control Commission Gera of the SED.

Life

Holzmacher was born the daughter of a typesetter and a seamstress. Her father was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the Nazi dictatorship he was imprisoned in Esterwegen concentration camp in 1933/34 and in prison in 1934/35.

Gerda Holzmacher attended elementary and commercial school as well as the lyceum. She passed her Abitur in 1934 . Between 1934 and 1938 she completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk (clerk) in Erfurt. She then worked from 1938 to 1945 as an accountant , stenographer and manager in Quedlinburg and Erfurt.

After the end of the war , she worked as an employee in a people's bookshop in Erfurt in 1945/46. In June 1945 she joined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. From October 1945 she worked as a functionary for the KPD in Erfurt. From April 1946 to March 1947, Holzmacher worked as a district women's officer in the State Office for Public Education in Weißensee and was a member of the SED district committee in Erfurt-Weißensee . From March 1947 to 1948 she then acted as the organizational secretary of the Erfurt-Weißensee district executive. From 1947 to 1951 she was a member of the SED state executive committee and the SED state leadership in Thuringia . From September 1948 to May 1949 she studied at the party college "Karl Marx" in Berlin . From July 1949 to April 1950, she then headed the organizational instructor department of the SED state board of Thuringia in Erfurt. From April 1950 to February 1951 she was secretary of the Thuringia state executive. From July 1950 to May 1976 Holzmacher was a member of the Central Committee of the SED . From October 15, 1950 to February 15, 1951 she was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia .

From February 1951 to August 1954 she studied at the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow . She completed her studies as a social scientist. From September 1954 to March 1956 she acted as deputy head of the science and propaganda department of the SED Central Committee, from April 1956 to June 1958 as secretary for agitation and propaganda of the Rostock district leadership of the SED and from July 1958 to September 1961 as secretary for agitation and Propaganda by the Gera district leadership of the SED. From September 1961 to March 1976 she was chairman of the Gera District Party Control Commission of the SED. From 1958 to 1980 she was a member of the SED district leadership in Gera and from 1958 to 1976 also a member of its office and secretariat.

Holzmacher was also part of the women's commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. She retired in March 1976.

Awards and honors

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959), silver (1965) and gold (1980)
• Order " Banner of Labor " (1973)
• The Gerda-Holzmacher-Strasse in the Gera district of Bieblach , named after her, was renamed Wartburgstrasse in March 1991 .

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 160.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 136.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 148.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 335.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 250.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Niemann (2010); According to Herbst (1994) and Baumgartner (1996), Holzmacher was born in Erfurt.
2. ^ Herbert Gottwald: The Thuringian Parliament 1946–1952. A political outline (= writings on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia , issue 5). Wartburg-Verlag, Jena 1994, ISBN 3-86160-505-8 , p. 85.
3. ↑ New street names from March . ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stadt-Anzeiger Gera , February 1991.