Johanna Blecha
Johanna Blecha , née Johanna Kutzerra , (born January 28, 1916 in Breslau ; † March 22, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). She was Lord Mayor of Schwerin from 1949 to 1953 and Deputy Mayor of East Berlin from 1953 to 1960 .
Life
Blecha, daughter of a tailor, was after the folk and middle school and a commercial apprenticeship in 1934 secretary in his parents' business, then in the Agriculture Wholesale pasture in Wroclaw and in Siemens Construction Union in Pillau , Graudenz and Bromberg .
After the end of the Second World War , she was resettled in the Soviet zone of occupation and went into politics. She joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was head of the Schwerin Youth Welfare Office from 1945 to 1947. In 1946 she became a member of the SED and from 1947 to 1949 headed the main resettlement department of the Mecklenburg state government as a government director .
From December 12, 1949 to 1953, Blecha was the successor of Christoph Seitz , Lord Mayor of Schwerin. From 1950 to 1953 she was chairwoman of the Mecklenburg regional association (later the Schwerin district association ) of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and at the same time completed a distance learning course at the SED's "Karl Marx" party college .
From August 1953 to 1960 she was first as successor to Paul Hentschel Secretary of the Magistrate , then Deputy Mayor and finally City Councilor for Culture, National Education and Sport in East Berlin. From 1960 to June 1977 she was secretary for culture and education and until 1982 a member of the executive committee of the federal executive committee of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD). Since October 1972 a member of the Presidium of the Kulturbund of the GDR , she was appointed honorary member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund in June 1987.
Private
Johanna Blecha was married to Kurt Blecha , head of the press office of the Council of Ministers of the GDR . Her daughter Sigrid was the second wife of the GDR foreign exchange procurer Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski .
Awards
- 1958 Clara Zetkin Medal
- 1965 Medal of Merit of the GDR
- 1968 Badge of Honor of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship
- 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (GDR)
literature
- Andreas Herbst : Johanna Blecha . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , March 21, 1948.
- ↑ Junge Welt , June 22, 1984.
- ↑ caviar account 528 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1992, p. 64-65 ( online ).
- ↑ Johanna Blecha . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1952, pp. 54 ( online ).
- ↑ Johanna Blecha . ddr-Biografien.de
- ^ New Germany , June 11, 1987.
- ^ Obituary notice for Johanna Blecha. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 8, 2000
- ^ New Germany , December 4, 1975
Otto Weltzien (1919–1926) | Joachim Saschenbrecker (1926–1933) | Ernst Wempe (1933–1937) | Wilhelm Timmermann (1937–1940) | Ernst Barten (1940–1942, acting) | Richard Crull (1942–1945) | Jürgen Berlin (1945) | Heinz Maus (1945) | Erich Wiesner (1945) | Christoph Seitz (1945–1949) | Johanna Blecha (1950–1953) | Gustav Schwantz (1953–1961) | Günther Braun (1961–1969) | Franz Schönbeck (1969–1971) | Horst Pietsch (1971–1977) | Frank Grimm (1977–1984) | Helmut Oder (1984–1990) | Johannes Kwaschik (1990–2002) | Norbert Claussen (2002-2008) | Wolfram Friedersdorff (2008, managing director) | Angelika Gramkow (2008–2016) | Rico Badenschier (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blecha, Johanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kutzerra, Johanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Lord Mayor of Schwerin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 2000 |
| Place of death | Berlin |