Olga Brückner

Olga Elsa Brückner (born December 25, 1899 in Sonneberg ; † April 22, 1980 there ) was a German politician ( SPD , SED ).

Life

education and profession

Olga Brückner attended elementary school in Sonneberg from 1906 to 1914. After that she worked as a seamstress in the Sonneberg toy industry until 1919, a. a. at Carl Heumann , in the war sewing room and at Bierschenk.

Between 1919 and 1923 and again from 1925, she worked in the Siemens-Schuckert works in Sonneberg, initially as a fitter, later as a silver warehouse manager and as a technical employee. At times she was chairman of the works council. From 1923 to 1925 she was an office assistant at the factory workers' association in Sonneberg.

After the Second World War , in 1946 she became a district women's officer at the district office in Sonneberg before taking over the position of HR manager from 1949 until the end of 1950.

Brückner was also involved in trade unions . From 1918 to 1927 she was a member of the Factory Workers ' Union , from 1927 to 1933 a member of the Central Employees' Association and from 1933 to 1945 a member of the DAF . In 1945 she became a member of the FDGB , 1946 of the KG , 1947 of the DFD and of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship , in which she was district chairman from 1950 to 1952. In 1951 she became a member of the Kulturbund of the GDR and in 1962 honorary chairwoman of the Peace Council in the Sonneberg district .

politics

As a teenager, Brückner became a member of the SAJ in 1914 , before joining the SPD in 1918. Until 1933 she held various board positions in the SPD Sonneberg. In 1946 Brückner became a member of the SED, in which she was a member of the secretariat and district leadership in Sonneberg until 1969.

From December 1950 to December 1951, Olga Brückner was mayor of the city of Sonneberg , then until August 1952 she was the district administrator of the district of Sonneberg and finally until April 1960 chairwoman of the council of the district of Sonneberg , which after the district reform in the GDR in 1952 represented a smaller district of Sonneberg.

Brückner was from 1946 to 1960 a member of the Sonneberg district assembly and from 1946 to 1950 a member of the Thuringian state parliament in the first electoral period .

Others

Olga Brückner received a number of awards: in 1944 a War Merit Medal, in 1959 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, in 1975 in silver and in 1959 the GDR Medal of Merit .

Brückner was to become the owner of a conspiratorial apartment for the Ministry for State Security in 1963 , but after more than a year without any result (no agreement with Brückner was possible) this plan was dropped.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann (Ed.): Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952. Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series. Volume 1. Part 4). Cologne 2014, p. 195 f.