Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 10 Pfennig

Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Edition 1987 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four commemorative postage stamps depicting deserving personalities of the German workers' movement. No special First Day Cover Special cancellation from March 24 to May 23, 1987 Clara Zetkin She was born on 5 July 1857 as the daughter of a village school teacher in Wiederau (Saxony). From 1874 to 1878 she attended the teacher seminar led by the leading women's rights activist Auguste Schmidt in Leipzig. After that she worked as an educator. She joined the Social Democracy in 1878. From 1882 she was in Zurich and Paris, where she supported the illegal shipment of the newspaper "The Social Democrat" to Germany. She played a major role in the organizational preparation for the Founding Congress of the Second International in Paris in 1889, and she spoke at the congress on the proletarian women's movement, whose founder and leader was Clara Zetkin. In 1891 she returned to Germany. She directed the socialist women's magazine "Die Gleichheit" from 1892 to 1917. From 1895 to 1917 she was a member of the Control Commission and from 1906 to 1917 the Education Committee of the German Social Democracy. It consistently opposed revisionism and supported the antimilitarist struggle of Karl Liebknecht. At the First International Conference of Socialist Women in Stuttgart in 1907 she was elected secretary of the International Women's Secretariat. The II International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1910 supported their proposal to hold an International Women's Day each year. She was incarcerated in 1915 for her active political struggle and her anti-war efforts. After unleashing the First World War, she became an associate of the magazine "Die Internationale" and co-founder of the Spartacist group. She joined in 1917 with the Spartacist group of the USPD. In 1919 she joined the KPD and was from 1919 to 1924 a member of the Central and Political Bureau and from 1927 to 1929 a member of the Thälmann Central Committee. Since 1920 she was a member of parliament in the Reichstag. She had a close friendship with W. I. Lenin. She was an uninterrupted member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and its Presidium and led from 1921 to 1925 the journal "The Communist Women's International" and since 1924 the International Women's Secretariat at the ECCI. Active she worked in the International Labor Assistance and was 1924/25 together with Wilhelm Pieck Chairwoman of the Red Aid Germany and then chairwoman of the International Red Aid. On August 30, 1932, she opened the newly elected Reichstag as an old-age president and in her speech called for a fight against fascism. Clara Zetkin died on 20 June 1933 after a serious illness in Arkhangelskoye near Moscow,