Johanna Töpfer

Johanna Töpfer (née Schrocko; 3 April 1929 – 7 January 1990), was an East German politician and Deputy Director of the FDGB.

Töpfer was born in Schneidemühl (Posen-West Prussia; today Piła, Poland) and started to work as a Waggon cleaner for the Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) in 1945.

She became a secretary in the cadre-department of the Reichsbahn administration in Leipzig and was educated at the teacher seminary at Dresden in 1951/52 with a correspondence course at the University of Berlin passing a graduation as Diplom-Wirtschaftlerin in 1955.

Since 1952 Töpfer worked as a teacher and received her doctorate at the "Academy of Sociology at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)".

[1] Töpfer was a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) since 1945 and of the SED since 1949.