Gerhard Zippel

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Gerhard Zippel (born September 5, 1925 in Chemnitz ; † June 30, 2007 ) was a German SED functionary. From 1960 to 1981 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Stollberg / Erzgeb.

Life

The son of a model carpenter from Chemnitz experienced in his childhood how his parents were imprisoned for resisting the Nazi regime. After attending primary school, Zippel trained as a machinist until 1943 and was then drafted into military service by the Wehrmacht . In 1944 he was wounded and was taken prisoner of war in a Czechoslovak hospital. At the beginning of 1946 he returned to Chemnitz and joined the SED, which was founded in April. He became a member of the zone youth commission of IG Metall, worked as a youth works council and FDJ secretary in the company. In 1948 he was elected FDJ chairman of the Chemnitz district. In this function he took part in the Second World Festival in Budapest in 1949 . In 1950 he attended a half years the SED party school and then spent two years in economic secretary of the SED district leadership in Aue . In 1952 he was appointed sector manager to the SED district leadership in Chemnitz. Between 1955 and 1958 he studied at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he passed the state examination as a social scientist. After completing his studies, he switched to the SED district leadership in Stollberg, where he was elected 1st secretary on April 24, 1960 by the district delegates' conference. In this function he took on the VI. SED party congress in Berlin . Zippel remained in the position for almost 21 years and was gratefully adopted on January 10, 1981 at a district delegate conference and replaced by Werner Kunz.

After German reunification he was a member of the Society for the Protection of Citizenship and Human Dignity. Zippel died at the age of 81 and was buried in Stollberg.

Awards in the GDR

literature

  • Albert Vögtel: Gerhard Zippel , in: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge, 11 (1966), no. 5, pp. 98-100.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To 1. Secretaries were elected . In: Freie Presse , January 12, 1981, p. 5.
  2. ↑ akzente , GBM monthly newspaper, No. 10/2007
  3. ^ Acknowledgments in the Freie Presse on July 17, 2007.
  4. ↑ Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze . In: Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1968, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Zippel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2007