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 envelope Special cancellation from 24 January to 23 March Friedrich Ebert Born on September 12, 1894 in Bremen, son of the Social Democratic functionary and later Reich President of the Weimar Republic Friedrich Ebert. After attending elementary school and middle school teaching as a book printer. 1909 Entry into the socialist youth movement. 1913 member of the SPD and the federation of German book printers. 1914 Participation in protest actions of the Young Socialists against the granting of war credits by the Social Democratic Reichstag faction. From 1919 worked journalistically at social-democratic correspondent offices and newspapers, among them from 1920 to 1923 as an editor of "Vorwärts" and from 1925 to 1933 as editor-in-chief of the "Brandenburger Zeitung". 1925-1933 member of the district executive committee of the SPD Brandenburg border mark and chairman of the SPD sub-district Brandenburg Westhavelland-Zauch / Belzig. As chairman of the SPD faction in the Brandenburg city parliament, as head of the town council and as a member of the Reichstag from 1928 to 1933 and as a member of the Prussian Council of State in 1933, he gained parliamentary experience, especially in local politics. With the establishment of the fascist dictatorship from July to December 1933 incarcerated in the concentration camps Oranienburg, Börgermoor-Ems and Lichtenburg. 1934 connection to illegally fighting anti-fascist resistance groups, including to the led by the KPD Uhrig organization. After the liberation of the German people from Hitler fascism chairman of the district executive committee of the SPD in the province Mark Brandenburg. Since the unification of the KPD and SPD into the SED member of the party executive committee and since 1947 member of the central secretariat of the SED. 1946 to 1948 one of the two parity elected chairman of the state executive committee of the SED Brandenburg. 1946 to 1949 Chairman of the Consultative Assembly at the Provincial Government of Brandenburg and as President of the Brandenburg State Parliament leader in the construction and consolidation of the new anti-fascist-democratic administrative organs involved. 1948 Member of the German People's Council. On the 1st party conference of the SED 1949 election as a member of the Politburo of the party executive committee and 1950 of the central committee of the SED. 1948 Election to the Lord Mayor of the Democratic Magistrate of Greater Berlin. 1949 member and from 1950 to 1963 deputy of the president of the people chamber. Since 1971 Chairman of the SED faction in the highest representative body of the GDR. 1950 to 1958 President of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship. 1950 Member of the National Council and the Presidium of the National Front of the GDR. 1957 to 1964 President of the German Cities and Towns Day of the GDR. 1960-1971 member and since 1971 deputy chairman of the State Council of the GDR. He made a significant contribution to the founding and development of the SED, to the establishment and strengthening of the first German workers and peasants state and to the development of Berlin, the capital of the GDR. Friedrich Ebert died on December 4, 1979 in Berlin.