From the very beginning, the GDR's state security took on the task of successfully suppressing and expropriating the population. The conspiratorial recruitment of unofficial collaborators, including in the ranks of the general partners (shareholders of companies with state participation) and above all in the block parties, began in the 1950s and ensured the suppression of any resistance. The documents from the Stasi document archive are presented and categorised.
The example of the family business Möbelhaus Moritz Lippmann reveals the ideologically motivated criminalisation of entrepreneurship. It also provides an insight into the 1972 expropriation campaign using the example of the family business Armaturenfabrik Lindner & Co Rabenstein.
Tour
Moritz Lippmann furniture store, shop window Mühlenstraße 34/36
Afterwards: continuation of the event in the seminar room of the municipal swimming pool
Introductory lecture
Holger Bartsch, cultural capital pastor
Criminalisation and repression of entrepreneurs as reflected in the documents of the Stasi document archive up to the expropriation campaign of 1972
Interview with
Günter Lippmann (grandson of Moritz Lippmann)
Adrian Lippmann (great-grandson of Moritz Lippmann)
Panel discussion
Stefan Lindner, Armaturenfabrik Lindner & Co. Rabenstein, from 1972 VEB Armaturenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt, from 1991 Lindner Armaturen GmbH
Katrin Göthel and Karen Friedemann (great-granddaughters of Moritz Lippmann)
Dr Sebastian Liebold, historian, consultant for international relations IHK Chemnitz
Holger Bartsch
Stephan Tischendorf, Moderator - Evangelisches Forum Chemnitz
