Otto Fiedler (politician)

Otto Fiedler (born April 23, 1927 in Nieder-Ebersdorf , Czechoslovakia ) is a German farmer and a former member of the People's Chamber for many years. For the DBD he sat in the GDR parliament from 1963 to 1990 . As a long-time director of a poultry farm in Altglienicke , he was responsible for supplying the GDR capital with the so-called broilers during the GDR era .

Life

Fiedler was born in 1927 in the German-Bohemian Nieder-Ebersdorf in Czechoslovakia as the son of a farmer. After attending elementary school and then middle school between 1933 and 1941, he then completed a commercial apprenticeship until 1943. This was followed by an agricultural apprenticeship until 1945. Shortly before the end of the war, Fiedler was drafted into military service and then spent some time in captivity.

By 1946 at the latest, as a German, Fiedler had to leave Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decrees . He initially found accommodation and employment in neighboring Saxony. Between 1950 and 1952, Fiedler worked as a clerk at the BHG Meißen . He joined the FDJ in 1950, and in 1951 became a member of the DBD because of his agricultural origins. In 1952 Fiedler moved to the Berlin area, where he worked at what was then VEG Altglienicke, initially as a speaker and later as deputy manager. In 1957, a poultry farm of the Berlin municipal authorities was set up on an area of ​​17 hectares at Rudower Strasse 1–18 in Altglienicke . When VEG took over this farm in 1958, investments were made in a modern poultry fattening facility with over one million marks, including a poultry slaughterhouse. Fiedler accompanied this planned expansion from the beginning until 1960 as the main speaker. This growing branch of meat production was a response to the shortages of pork that occurred in some cases, which existed in the GDR from 1958 after the food ration cards were discontinued. In 1960 Fiedler was finally appointed director of what was then VEB, a special company for poultry farming, Altglienicke. As a result, the Altglienicker company developed into one of the most important producers of the so-called broilers and slaughter ducks, which were primarily intended to supply the East Berlin population. Because of this important management function, Fiedler was delegated to visit the agricultural college in Oranienburg-Luisenhof in 1962, which he left in 1964 with the qualification as a state-certified farmer. Politically, Fiedler was elected for the first time in 1961 as a district representative of the DBD in the district assembly of Berlin-Treptow . In 1963 the DBD nominated him as Berlin representative for the Volkskammer elections . As a result, Fiedler represented his party as a member of the GDR parliament until 1990, and from 1967 to the end also in its committee for agriculture and forestry. Between 1981 and 1983 Fiedler completed a degree at the LPG University in Meißen, which he graduated with a degree in agricultural engineering.

After the political change , Fiedler tried to convert the state-owned company into a market economy. The company, now renamed Altglienicker Landhähnchen GmbH, with Fiedler as managing director, was dissolved on June 30, 1991. So far nothing is known about his further life.

Honors

• 1974 Labor Stage II banner
• 1984 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 4th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1964, p. 625.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 5th electoral term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1967, p. 649.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 6th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1972, p. 261.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 7th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1977, p. 228.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 8th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1982, p. 231.
• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 9th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 257.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 21, 1993 p. 33
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 1, 1974 p. 4
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 24, 1984 p. 4