Otto Lehmann (trade unionist)

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Otto Lehmann (born September 25, 1913 in Sandersdorf , Bitterfeld district ; † July 1, 1991 ) was a German politician and union official . He was a member of the Central Committee of the SED , a member of the People's Chamber and deputy chairman of the FDGB federal board.

Life

Lehmann, son of a worker, attended elementary school in Sandersdorf and Ramsin and the technical school in Bitterfeld . From 1927 to 1930 he learned the profession of electrician. In 1927 he joined the German Metalworkers' Association and the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). In 1932 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Lehmann was unemployed between 1930 and 1933. In 1933/34 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service . From 1934 to 1939 he worked as an electrician in the Elektroschmelze in Zschornewitz and as an electrician in the Wolfen film factory .

From 1939 he did military service in an intelligence department and in 1943 was taken as a non-commissioned officer in Soviet captivity , in which he remained until 1949. He became a member of the National Committee "Free Germany" . In 1948 he was a student, later assistant and teacher at the Central Anti-Fascist School 2041 in the village of Talizy.

At the end of 1949 Lehmann returned to Germany. In 1950 he joined the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . From 1950 to 1952 he completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" with a degree in social science . Lehmann was a member from 1950 to 1968, from 1950 to 1963 secretary and from 1957 to 1959 deputy chairman of the federal board of the FDGB. Between 1952 and 1968 he was also a member of its executive committee.

From 1954 to 1963 Lehmann was also a member of the Central Committee of the SED and from 1958 to 1963 - as a member of the FDGB parliamentary group - a member of the People's Chamber. There he was first deputy chairman of the economic committee.

1961/62 Lehmann studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . He was then from 1963 to 1967 director of social security for blue-collar workers . In 1966 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on problems in the theory and practice of social insurance in the GDR.

From 1967 to 1978 Lehmann worked as HR director at VEB Kabelwerk Berlin-Adlershof .

Fonts (selection)

  • Wage policy and collective agreements . Grandstand, Berlin 1951.
  • The technically based labor standards and their importance for the growth of labor productivity as the most important condition for the successful construction of socialism . Grandstand, Berlin 1952.
  • About the tasks of the trade unions in raising labor standards in general . Grandstand, Berlin 1953.
  • About the abolition of the ration cards . Grandstand, Berlin 1958.
  • All strength for the solution of the economic-political tasks . Tribune, Berlin 1959.
  • The discussion of the union members on the draft of the labor code of the German Democratic Republic . Grandstand, Berlin 1960.
  • On some questions and problems of the theory and practice of social security for workers and employees in the German Democratic Republic . Faculty of Economics at the Humboldt University, Berlin 1966 [dissertation].
  • (together with Herbert Püschel and Rudolf Hoppe): Problems of the scientific management of social insurance . Grandstand, Berlin 1966.

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personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandersdorf , Bitterfeld district
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1991