Margarete Götzelt

Margarete Götzelt (born April 5, 1909 in Dresden ; † May 1984 there ) was a German politician ( SED ) and trade unionist. She was a member of the People's Chamber and at times chairman of the trade union in the GDR

Life

Götzelt was the daughter of a locksmith. After attending elementary school and an advanced training school, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as an office clerk. During her apprenticeship, she joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and the Red Falcons in 1923, and in 1924 she became a member of the Young Socialists . In 1926 Götzelt joined the SPD . Between 1928 and 1930 she was involved in the board of the Young Socialists and Child Friends of East Saxony, after which she was a member of the SPD board for East Saxony and Greater Dresden until the party was banned in 1933. During the time of National Socialism she was arrested several times for her illegal political activities.

After the end of the war, Götzelt revived her SPD membership. Until 1947 she worked as the deputy mayor of Ottendorf-Okrilla , after which she worked as the deputy district administrator for the Kamenz district . Since the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in April 1946, Götzelt became a full-time functionary in the secretariat of the SED state leadership in Saxony, where she worked until 1948. She then delegated the SED to a one-year course at the Karl Marx party college , which she graduated in 1949. At the end of August 1949, when the Association of Consumer Cooperatives (VDK) was founded, Götzelt was elected to one of the five full-time board members. In this position she worked until 1955, from 1952 as one of two vice presidents of the VDK. In order to offer the consumer cooperatives also political options, there was a parliamentary group of cooperatives from the 1st legislative period of the People's Chamber in 1950. It was composed equally of five members of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) and the VDK. Götzelt ran as a member of the VDK in 1950 and 1954 and represented it in the first two legislative periods in the GDR parliament. At the same time, she was elected to the central executive committee of the trade union in the early 1950s, where she volunteered as deputy chairwoman. When the chairman of the board, Siegfried Michl , died unexpectedly in November 1954 at the age of 31, Götzelt initially took over the union leadership on a temporary basis. In 1955 she was regularly elected chairman of the central board of the trade union. She held this office until the trade union was absorbed into the newly created industrial union for food, beverages and restaurants , which was decided in February 1958. In the newly founded union, she remained a few years as deputy chairwoman. At the same time, Götzelt was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB between 1955 and 1959 in her initial role as chairwoman of a branch union . Now completely switched to the trade unions, she represented the FDGB as a member of the People's Chamber in its last legislative period from 1958 to 1963. After resigning from the FDBG federal board, she was a member of the FDGB's central revision commission from 1959 to 1977.

Honors

• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Web link

Entry in the FDGB lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of August 30, 1949, p. 5.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from April 27, 1974, p. 5.