Margot Feist-Altenkirch

Margot Feist-Altenkirch (née Feist ; born May 24, 1923 in Sternberg in der Neumark ; † 2011 ) was a DFD and SED functionary in the GDR .

Life

Margot Feist-Altenkirch, daughter of a working-class family, attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a clerk and accountant. In 1945 she became a member of the KPD and secretary in the KPD district leadership in Köthen . With the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD , she became a member of the SED in 1946 and worked as head of the SED district party school in Brandenburg an der Havel . From January to June 1949 she worked as deputy head of the office of the secretariat of the SED state executive committee in Brandenburg. After attending the party college , in autumn 1949 she succeeded Ernst Altenkirch as first secretary of the Brandenburg SED district leadership. She held this position until 1951.

Burial place with her husband

On April 27, 1950, she replaced Friedrich Ebert in the Brandenburg state parliament. She also belonged to the Brandenburg state parliament in the second electoral period from November 1950 to July 1952. On the III. At the SED party congress, she was elected a member of the SED Central Committee in July 1950 and stayed for twelve years until the VI. Party congress in January 1963 member of this body. From 1951 to 1953 she was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin-Mitte. In February 1953 she was elected deputy mayor of the Berlin-Mitte district and in 1954 the first secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Weißensee . In 1956 she was replaced by the previous second secretary, Rudi Tenk, and then worked as an editor. In October 1959 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. From 1959 to 1964 she was secretary of the federal executive committee of the DFD . As an employee of the main music department in the State Committee for Broadcasting at the Council of Ministers of the GDR, she received the Clara Zetkin Medal in March 1974 .

Margot Feist had been married to the SED functionary Ernst Albert Altenkirch since the 1950s .

She died in 2011 and was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg in the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried in Berlin.

literature

• Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52, Sattler, Friederike, LIT Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minutes No. 44/59 of the meeting of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee on September 22, 1959 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/2/668.
2. ↑ Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 189.
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 9, 1974
4. ↑ Honor their memory . In: Unser Blatt, Edition 49 - January 2012, p. 13. (Accessed March 24, 2017)