Isolde Oschmann

Isolde Oschmann (born May 20, 1913 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( KPD / SED ). She was Minister of Public Education for the State of Thuringia .

Life

Oschmann attended elementary school in Berlin and worked as a band worker. She became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD).

After 1945 she worked for a city youth welfare office and trained as a kindergarten teacher. In 1945 she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1948 she was a city councilor for the Berlin- Treptow district . She then studied from 1948 to 1950 at the party college and became an assistant at the chair for history at the party college. From December 19, 1950 to July 25, 1952 Isolde Oschmann was Minister for Popular Education of the State of Thuringia . She was also the regional chairman of the German-Polish Society and a member of the regional management of the Kulturbund Thuringia. From 1952 to 1955 she acted as the deputy head of the General Education Department at the Central Committee of the SED and was temporarily a member of the Women's Commission at the Politburo of the SED Central Committee . Subsequently, she was responsible for the pre-school education of children in the GDR as a sector manager in the Ministry of Popular Education . Later she was a research assistant in the ministry until 1973 and was appointed senior teacher. From 1977 to 1982 Oschmann was a member of the central board of the teaching and education union .

Fonts (selection)

• Kindergarten teacher and two-year plan . In: The kindergarten teacher . Vol. 2 (1949), issue 1, p. 4ff.
• (together with Erika Lange): Peter and the other children. Material for short courses . Democratic Women's Federation of Germany's Federal Executive, Berlin 1957.
• Towards the Fifth Party Congress. Review our work critically . In: New Education in Kindergarten , Issue 9 (1958), pp. 2–3.
• We have a lot of catching up to do . In: New education in kindergarten , volume 5 (1960), pp. 2-4.
• The All Union Congress gave essential impetus . In: New education in kindergarten , issue 7 (1960), pp. 9 and 14-15.
• (together with Elvira Hermann): The kindergartens in the German Democratic Republic . Zeit im Bild, Dresden 1966.
• IV. International seminar on pre-school education in the socialist countries . In: Pädagogik , Vol. 23 (1968), Heft 7, pp. 654–659.

Awards

• Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal in Gold (1961)
• Clara Zetkin Medal (1964)
• Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in gold (1973) as well as an honor bar for the VVO in gold (1978)

literature

• 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. 619.
• Andreas Herbst :  Isolde Oschmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the everyday life of the WBA chairwoman Isolde Oschmann . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 28, 1976, p. 3.
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 8, 1962, p. 6.
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 29, 1978, p. 5.