Gerda Sredzki
Gerda Sredzki (born Weß ; born April 15, 1917 in Berlin ; † 1995 there ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization , police officer and university professor in the GDR .
Life
The daughter of a driver was born as the fifth of eight children in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. After attending elementary school in 1931, she was initially unemployed, then a trainee and machine worker in a cigarette factory. She attended a training school for unskilled workers and became a member of the KJVD in October 1932 . After brief unemployment, she was trained as a seamstress in the Lubstein hat factory.
On January 25, 1933, she took part in the last big rally with the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann and subsequently worked illegally in the group around Gerhard Sredzki against National Socialism. On December 7, 1934, she was arrested with Siegmund Sredzki and other comrades and taken to the Barnimstrasse women's prison . On November 12, 1935, she was sentenced to ten months imprisonment in the trial of "Sredzki and comrades" for involvement in preparations for high treason . She was released because of her pre-trial detention and was reinstated in the Lubstein hat factory. In 1939 she married Gerhard Sredzki, who had been released from prison in 1937. After the outbreak of war, Gerhard Sredzki and his wife Gerda Sredzki continued their fight against National Socialism in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization .
Through the mediation of Hedwig Walkowiak, called Aunt Hete, a perfect secretary, she was able to qualify as an office clerk in evening courses. Gerhard was arrested again in February 1942 and briefly released after his father was executed in October 1944. He went underground and actively resisted. The group to which Gerda Sredzki belonged included Dr. August Wolter and the then chief sergeant in the medical service Friedrich Oberdoerster . With their help it was possible to keep active resistance fighters away from military service with forged certificates. In Hans Beyermann's arbor in the Heinersdorfer allotment gardens, they witnessed the invasion of the Red Army in April 1945 .
After the war she joined the KPD in June 1945 and became a youth functionary in the People's Education Office in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg under District Councilor Marianne Lange . At the end of 1945 she became the youth secretary of the KPD administrative district leadership. At the unification party convention of the Berlin KPD and SPD on April 14, 1946, she was elected to the Berlin state leadership of the SED and worked on an equal footing with Friedel Hoffmann in the youth secretariat of the state leadership. In June 1946 she was a delegate of the first parliament of the FDJ in Brandenburg and from mid-1946 attended the newly founded SED party college in Bad Liebenwerda for half a year .
In 1948 she was delegated by the SED to the German People's Police (DVP) and employed as an assistant for youth work in the Polit-Culture Department of the DVP headquarters. In May 1949 she became a member of the III. German People's Congress elected. After the founding of the GDR and the formation of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) , she remained a political officer in the MdI. From 1952 she was responsible for management training in the passport and registration system of the MdI. In June 1952 she was elected to the office of the Central Council of the FDJ.
In 1953 she began studying at the University of State and Law in Babelsberg, which she graduated in 1955 with the qualification to be a public prosecutor and judge. Then she was appointed as a teacher at the Higher Police School in Berlin-Kaulsdorf. In distance learning she became a qualified lawyer and as an external student at Karl Marx University she passed a partial examination as a university teacher. From 1963 she was head of the chair Theory of State and Law at the DVP University. In 1966 she fell ill for a long time, left the university and, after her recovery, returned to the MdI, this time to the penal administration. As a lieutenant colonel of the penal system a. D. she retired in 1972 after her 55th birthday.
In June 1974 she was elected chairman of the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters .
Private
In January 1933 she met Gerhard Sredzki, who was the same age, son of Siegmund Sredzki, with whom she was married from 1939 to 1948. After the birth of their son, the marriage ended in divorce.
Awards
- 1963 Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal in gold
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1972 in silver and later in gold
- 1965 Artur Becker Medal in gold
- 1987 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Life and struggle in the service of the people. Literary portraits. Volume 1, 1st edition, Berlin: Ministry of the Interior, 1984.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DRAFD-Info 2/2009, p. 14
- ^ New Germany of May 3, 1975
- ^ New Germany of May 10, 1949
- ^ New Germany of June 4, 1952
- ^ Berliner Zeitung of October 6, 1964
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sredzki, Gerda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wess, Gerda (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Berlin |