Irene Koehler
Irene Köhler (born June 23, 1918 in Weimar as Irene Günther ; † February 8, 1984 ) was a functionary of the SED in the GDR .
Life
The daughter of a locksmith was after visiting the elementary and a junior high school in 1935 clerk in a workshop of the company Carl Zeiss , and then in the Thuringian State Electricity Supply AG , called Thuringia work . After the Second World War , after joining the KPD, she became a personal assistant in the Thuringian State Labor Office , before she was then head of the ministerial office and then head of the training department in the Interior Ministry of Thuringia between 1945 and 1951 and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946, SED - Became a member.
In 1951 she switched to the Central Committee of the SED , where she was first an instructor and from 1952 to 1962 head of the BO sector (Friendly Organizations) and also responsible for the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD). She kept in touch with the Central Committee for Agriculture and worked regularly with the Central Committee Secretary Erich Mückenberger and especially Gerhard Grüneberg . It provided them with the latest DBD materials, informed them about internal processes and proposed topics for presentations and discussions with the DBD. In addition, she made reports to Hermann Matern , a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.
During this time she completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law and graduated in 1954 with a diploma in Political Science and Law . Between 1962 and her replacement by Waldemar Pilz in March 1969, she was the head of the working group or the department of Friendly Parties and Organizations of the Central Committee of the SED .
After she was secretary of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) between March 1969 and May 1970 , she became a research assistant at the television of the GDR and stayed there until she retired .
Awards
- 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1978 in silver
literature
- Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from Above. The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany 1948-1963 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3486567039 , p. 242 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Köhler, Irene . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Publications
- About the nature and tasks of bloc politics in the GDR . In: Die Einheit , 1961, p. 231 ff (co-author Siegfried Wetzig).
Web links
- Roger Engelmann , Paul Erker: Approach and demarcation. 1993, ISBN 3486645668 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from above: The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany 1948-1963 , 2003, ISBN 3486567039 , pp. 236, 253, 528.
- ↑ Roger Engelmann, Paul Erker: Approach and Delimitation , 1993, ISBN 3486645668 , p. 27.
- ↑ High state awards . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1978, p. 4.
- ^ Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen, Rainer-Olaf Schultze: Elections in Germany , 1971, p. 274, ISBN 3110017326 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Irene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Günther, Irene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German functionary, head of department of the Central Committee of the SED |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1984 |