Complex brigade
Complex brigade is the name for a special form of brigade in the German Democratic Republic , which was composed of representatives from various professional groups.
Emergence
This form of a brigade has been increasingly propagated by the FDGB since the mid-1950s. The job of a complex brigade was to work on a larger assignment. The payment for this was mostly in the form of collective property wages. Complex brigades were particularly common in the construction industry.
The first complex brigade was formed in 1955 in the VEB Bauunion Rostock on the initiative of Paul Strauss. The aim should be to enable more effective work organization and a more rational use of working hours and work equipment than was possible when several specialized brigades, such as earthworkers, masons, carpenters and transport workers, were deployed.
Use of language
The term was imprinted in the general language of the GDR and was ultimately used as a name for all types of working groups that had to cope with tasks with interdisciplinary requirements, for example in the party apparatus and in state administration.
In the 1980s, the term complex brigade now, with an ironic undertone, also became common for municipal housing management with its diverse and practically impossible repair and reconstruction tasks.
literature
- FDGB lexicon: function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945-1990). Edited by Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba and Manfred Wilke . Edited by Michael Kubina working version, Berlin 2005
