Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1984 - 10 Pfennig

Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers' Movement, Edition 1984 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes three commemorative postage stamps depicting deserving personalities of the German labor movement. No special First Day Cover Special cancellation from January 24 to March 23 Albert Norden Born on December 4, 1904, the son of an academic in Myslowitz, district of Katowice (now VR Poland). 1911-1920 Realgymnasium in Elberfeld, then teaching as a carpenter. 1919 Entry into the Free Socialist Youth of Germany. 1920 Member of the KPD and the German Timber Workers Association. In the same year cooperation in the newspaper "Red Tribune", the organ of the KPD for the subdistricts Elberfeld-Barmen and Hagen. 1923-1928 editor and editor-in-chief of newspapers of the KPD and from 1928 regular participation as a German correspondent at the "International Press Correspondence" (Berlin), the information organ of the Communist International. 1928-1933 first editor, later deputy editor-in-chief of the central organ of the KPD "The Red Flag". 1933 Emigration on behalf of the party to Denmark. Collaboration on the "Brown Book on the Reichstag fire and Hitler terror". Between 1935 and 1939 he worked as editor in chief of the newspaper "Weltfront gegen imperialistische Krieg und Faschismus" published by Henri Barbusse in Paris and as secretary of the Action Committee of German Oppositionists, headed by Heinrich Mann. From 1939 to 1941 imprisoned in several French concentration camps. Interned in 1941 on the way to emigration to Mexico in the then British Trinidad, later detained in the US and prevented from traveling further. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in the USA on anti-fascist and democratic newspapers and magazines in the sense of the anti-fascist movement "Free Germany" and the collection of old Hitler opponents. 1946 as a result of a protest campaign against the refusal of departure for progressive German emigrants from the USA and after receipt of a Soviet visa return over the USSR to Germany. 1947-1948 Press Officer of the German Economic Commission. From 1948 to 1949 editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper "Deutschand's Voice", the organ of the People's Congress Movement for Unity and Just Peace. 1949-1952 head of the Department of Press in the Office of Information of the Government of the GDR. State Secretary and Secretary of the Committee for German Unity in the Government of the GDR from 1954 to 1955. In 1955 Mitgied and at the same time secretary of the Central Committee of the SED. 1958-1981 member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. 1958 election as a member of the World Peace Council and his office. 1958 to 1981 Member of the People's Chamber. 1976-1981 member of the State Council of the GDR. 1980 election to one of the Vice Presidents of the World Peace Council. He earned lasting service in the world peace movement, the development of the National Front of the GDR to a socialist popular movement and the emergence of socialist journalism in the GDR. Albert Norden died on May 30, 1982 in Berlin.