Day of the activists
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The day of the activists was committed on October 13 day of action in the GDR , were awarded to the employee awards for excellence.
The day was celebrated for the first time in 1949 by decision of the federal executive committee of the FDGB . The day was intended to commemorate a high-performance shift of the miner Adolf Hennecke , who had met his daily norm of 387% in a planned action at the Karl Liebknecht hard coal works on October 13, 1948 and was declared a “role model for a new approach to work”. The SED historiography saw it more generally:
"In Adolf Hennecke's act of activism and the increasingly rapid development of the activist movement, the historical role of the working class as the creator of a new social order, as the leader of the people to a better life, found its visible expression"
On October 13, 1949, the FDGB honored 25,000 activists in the factories and institutions of the GDR. The award of activist certificates was associated with a bonus and a badge - in continuation of economic development, first as an activist of the two-year plan , then an activist of the five-year plan , activist of the seven-year plan (see the certificate shown) and finally an activist of socialist work .
Order activist of socialist work
Activist Certificate and Badge, 1961
Individual evidence
- ↑ October 13th Activist Day . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 7, 1949, p. 1.
- ↑ Outline of the history of the German labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965, p. 328.
- ^ History of the German Labor Movement , Volume 7, From 1949 to 1955. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1966, p. 37.