Socialist Brigade
In the planned economies of the real socialist states, the brigade was the name of the smallest working group in the companies and administrations that carried out a task in the production process.
background
The term brigade is a meaning borrowed from Russian ( brigada / бригада ). The German word originally only referred to a "large military association of land forces" (see brigade or brigadier ). The same thing happened in other European languages that were spoken in states under Soviet influence (see e.g. Polish brygada ).
In the GDR there were brigades in almost all state-owned companies, in agricultural production cooperatives (LPG) or in production cooperatives of the craft (PGH). In the Ernst Thälmann pioneer organization , the pioneer brigade was an organizational unit below the pioneer group.
The competition between them was conducted by the respective combine . The head of a brigade was called a Brigadier . Each brigade kept a brigade diary . The FDJ set up special youth brigades . Premiums were paid for services invoiced, which were regularly used for brigade trips.
School classes or pioneer groups often had sponsorship relationships with sponsor brigades .
See also
literature
- Jörg Roesler: The production brigades in industry in the GDR. Center of the world of work? , in: Hartmut Kaelble ; Jürgen Kocka ; Hartmut Zwahr (ed.): Social history of the GDR, Stuttgart, 1994, pp. 144–170.
- Jörg Roesler: The brigades, the foreman, the plant management and the plan. Work regime and working atmosphere in the state-owned enterprises of the GDR, in: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Volume II / 2009.