Herta Bergmann

Herta Bergmann (born August 13, 1926 in Bullendorf ) is a former functionary of the SED and FDJ . She belonged to the first central committee of the SED , was a member of the Saxon state parliament and a member of the GDR regional chamber

Life

Herta Bergmann was born on August 13, 1926 in the Sudeten German Bullendorf as a child of a working class family. After attending elementary and high school, she studied at a women's technical school and a kindergarten teacher seminar. She then worked as a kindergarten teacher.

Due to the Beneš decrees , Bergmann had to leave their homeland after the end of the war as part of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia . Due to the proximity of Bullendorf to the newly designed border triangle around Zittau , the resettlement was not serious, Bergmann settled in the Zittau area. In 1945 she joined the SPD , in 1946 she became a member of the SED when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge. Bergmann got involved as a kindergarten teacher, which she practiced again in a Zittau company kindergarten, especially in the youth sector. In 1946 she became a member of the newly founded FDJ and subsequently worked as a pioneer leader. Her career took off rapidly within the Saxon FDJ, she was initially employed as a secretary for the FDJ district leadership in Zittau. From 1948 to 1952 she was a member of the FDJ state executive committee for Saxony . In 1950, the SED sent the just 24-year-old to the Zwickau-Land district , where she worked as a secretary in the Zwickau district leadership in the following years. The area of ​​responsibility of this district management also included the Zwickau hard coal district, which is extremely important throughout the country . Since the SED leadership had meanwhile also become aware of the young comrade, she was on the III. SED party congress in July 1950 elected as a member of the SED Central Committee, which should probably strengthen their position in the harsh world of miners. At the same time, she was the youngest member of the newly created Central Committee, Margot Feist , who was one year younger , was "only" elected as a candidate for the Central Committee. In October 1950 the FDJ put Herta Bergmann up for election as a candidate for the Saxon state parliament. After she became a member of the state parliament through the unified election, the Saxon state parliament also sent her to the GDR regional chamber as a representative of Saxony. In the state parliament, Bergmann headed the committee for youth and popular education. As part of her work in the youth sector, the SED delegated her to a study trip to the Soviet Union in 1951, during which she also visited the pioneering republic of Artek . This facility became the model for the pioneering republic of Wilhelm Pieck on the Werbellinsee , which opened in 1952 , and Herta Bergmann was appointed its first director.

After the dissolution of the states in the GDR, an increased need for cadres arose from mid-1952 due to the adaptation of the party organization to the district structure. As a result of this restructuring, Herta Bergmann was appointed secretary for culture and popular education for the SED district leadership in Chemnitz, later Karl-Marx-Stadt , from August of the same year . As a result, as he got older, Bergmann also devoted himself to issues of women's politics, such as her presentation at the conference of working women on 24/25. October 1953 shows. However, Bergmann's career came to an abrupt end in the spring of 1954. On March 10, 1954, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED agreed to a recommendation by the Central Party Control Commission that, for reasons of security, it should no longer be elected for the Secretariat of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Herta Bergmann had omitted a previous acquaintance with an NSDAP functionary in the party questionnaires. Accordingly, she was not re-elected to the SED Central Committee. She was assigned a position on the radio in the GDR .

literature

• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : 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 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 . P. 109f

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 19, 1952, p. 3
2. ^ New Germany of October 31, 1953 p. 4 (with picture)