Irma Uschkamp

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Irma Uschkamp (born June 3, 1929 in Treuburg , East Prussia , † September 17, 2014 in Cottbus ) was a German politician ( SED ). She was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and chairwoman of the council of the Cottbus district .

Life

Uschkamp, ​​the daughter of a gardener and a librarian , attended elementary and middle school in Treuburg and Oschatz . From 1947 to 1952 she worked as a worker, employee and plant assistant in Mügeln , Colditz and Meißen .

In 1947 Uschkamp joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), and in 1950 the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and in 1954 the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD).

In 1949/50 she was a member of the Mügeln local leadership of the SED. In 1950 she became a member of the local executive committee Mügeln of the chemical industry union and the area management Oschatz of the FDGB. In 1950 she took part in a course for industrial assistants at the business school in Halle (Saale) . In 1952 she worked as a consultant for vocational training at the Association of Publicly Owned Ceramic Companies in Erfurt and from 1953 to 1960 she was plant manager of the VEB Steingut Elsterwerda . Between 1953 and 1959 she completed a distance learning course in industrial economics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

1953/54 Uschkamp was a member of the district assembly and the council of the district of Bad Liebenwerda , then from 1954 to 1963 a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR, there member of the DFD parliamentary group and the economic committee. In 1960/61 she took part in a special course of the SED Central Committee.

From 1961 to 1964 Uschkamp was a political employee, from 1964 to 1966 sector manager and 1966/67 deputy department head in the SED district management in Cottbus . From 1967 to 1970 she acted as chairwoman of the district planning commission of the Cottbus district council and deputy chairman of the district council (successor to Werner Schmieder ). From 1967 to 1989 she was a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Cottbus. In 1970/71 she studied at the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow . Then she was from May 12, 1971 to June 21, 1989 chairwoman of the council of the Cottbus district. She resigned from this position at her own request for health reasons.

Uschkamp was a member of the Die Linke party and the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity . Irma Uschkamp last lived in Cottbus and died at the age of 85.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 332.
  • 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. 351.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 954.
  • Rita Pawlowski: “Our women stand by their husbands”. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950–1989. A biographical manual. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 286
  • Andreas Herbst:  Uschkamp, ​​Irma . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New chairman of the council of the Cottbus district. Choice of Peter Siegesmund / thanks to Irma Uschkamp . In: Neues Deutschland , June 22, 1989, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Congratulations on the 85th birthday In: Cottbuser Herzblatt. Chośebuska wutšobka. The left newspaper from the red corner , Volume 19 / No. 06 (263) June 2014, p. 16.
  3. ↑ akzente , 06/2009 (PDF; 1.9 MB), p. 7.
  4. ↑ Obituary / Acknowledgments. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , October 25, 2014 (accessed November 5, 2014).
  5. ^ New Germany , April 27, 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Uschkamp, ​​Irma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), chairwoman of the RdB Cottbus
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2014
Place of death cottbus