Werner Peplowski

Werner Peplowski (born January 4, 1944 in Dresden ) is a former German functionary of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) -. From 1985 to 1990 he was chairman of the central board of the industrial union (IG) printing and paper in the FDGB and president of the standing committee of the unions of the graphic industry.

Life

Peplowski, the son of a businessman, attended elementary and high school and graduated from high school. He completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and studied at the Pedagogical University of Potsdam (PH) with a diploma in biology and the basics of agricultural production. Peplowski was a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and from 1964 of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He did 18 months of military service as a border soldier in the National People's Army (NVA). In 1968 he became 1st secretary of the FDJ basic organization (GO) of the PH Potsdam. In 1972 he was awarded a Dr. paed. PhD. He then worked there for two years as a university lecturer and as deputy secretary of the SED university party leadership. After studying at the party university of the CPSU in Moscow in 1976/77, he was secretary of the SED university party leadership at the PH Potsdam until 1980. From 1980 to January 7, 1984 he acted as secretary for science, popular education and culture of the SED district leadership in Potsdam-Stadt (successor to Paul Holland). From January 1984 to March 1985 he was Secretary for Labor and Law in the Education Union. On March 19, 1985 he was elected chairman of the industrial union (IG) printing and paper and on March 27, 1985 he was co-opted as a member of the FDGB federal board.

In 1985 Peplowski became president of the "Standing Committee of the Trade Unions of the Graphic Industry", which had its seat in East Berlin . On the VI. At the International Consultative Conference of the Graphic Industry Trade Unions in Sofia on May 29, 1986, he was re-elected President of the Standing Committee.

In December 1989 he became chairman of the preparatory committee for the extraordinary FDGB congress in January 1990. Previously, he had asked then FDGB chairman Harry Tisch in a letter to resign. As a candidate for the new FDGB chairmanship, he lost to Helga Mausch on February 1, 1990 . At the extraordinary central delegates' conference in March 1990, he was confirmed as chairman of the IG Druck und Papier. He was then involved in the transfer of the GDR's printing and paper industry union to IG Medien heute ver.di in the Federal Republic and in the liquidation of the FDBG. After a period of unemployment, he found a job as a businessman and freelance sales representative near Cologne in 1991. Peplowski lives with his family in Potsdam again.

literature

• Andreas Herbst : Werner Peplowski . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Fonts

• Nothing remains hidden under the snow . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2016, ISBN 978-3-88372-148-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ 10th meeting of the FDGB federal executive committee . In: Grandstand from March 28, 1985.
2. ^ Declaration of peace from trade union conference . In: Neues Deutschland , May 30, 1986, p. 5.