Karl Iffländer
Karl Iffländer (born June 12, 1912 in Königsberg , † August 28, 1983 in East Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and trade unionist . From 1959 to 1963 he was chairman of the central board of the railway industrial union , from 1963 to 1977 chairman of the central board of the industrial union for transport and communications in the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB).
Life
Iffländer, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship as a legal assistant and bank clerk in Königsberg. He later worked in these professions. In 1926 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany and the Central Association of Employees (ZdA). Between 1939 and 1945 he had to serve in the Wehrmacht and in April 1945 was taken prisoner by the US in Bavaria , where he remained until July 1945.
From 1945 to 1949 he worked as a coal loader or as a personnel clerk in the Suhl mine . In 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1949 to 1951 he was deputy chairman of the Erfurt district board of the industrial union (IG) Eisenbahn, then from 1951 to June 1955 he was chairman of the Halle district board of IG Eisenbahn. From 1955 to 1958 he was department head and secretary of the central board of IG Eisenbahn and had the rank of Reichsbahn chief director . 1958/59 Iffländer studied at the party college "Karl Marx" . From the 5th Central Delegate Conference in October 1959 until its dissolution in 1963, he was chairman of the central board of IG Eisenbahn and from September 15, 1963 to April 17, 1977 chairman of the central board of IG Transport and Communications, in which IG Eisenbahn was absorbed. Iffländer was also a member of the FDGB federal executive committee from 1959 to 1977 and at times a member of its executive committee. He was a member of the administrative committee of the International Federation of Transport, Ports and Fisheries Unions in the World Trade Union Confederation . From 1962 Iffländer was vice president, from 1975 to 1983 chairman of the friendship committee GDR-Japan.
Iffländer lived as a pensioner in Berlin-Mitte from 1977 and died at the age of 71.
Awards
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
- Honorary title of Honored Railway Worker of the German Democratic Republic (1962)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1969), silver (1972) and gold (1977)
- Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1982)
- Fritz Heckert Medal in gold
literature
- Gerlinde Grahn: Iffländer, Karl. In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 346.
- Andreas Herbst : Iffländer, Karl. In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
Theodor Kotzur (1946–1949) | Roman Chwalek (1949–1951) | Otto Seeger (1951–1954) | Kurt Lucas (1954–1955) | Karl Fritsche (1955–1959) | Karl Iffländer (1959–1963)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 16, 1963, p. 2.
- ↑ Grandstand of April 18, 1977
- ^ New Germany , June 9, 1962, p. 3.
- ^ Obituary notice in the grandstand from September 6, 1983
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iffländer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (KPD, SED) and trade unionists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1983 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |