page_title: Vertragsarbeiter
hierarchical_section_title: Vertragsarbeiter
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Weißenfels, Auszubildener aus Namibia ADN-ZB Lehmann 21.1.85 Bez. Halle: Junge Namibianer in der Ausbildung-Zu den jungen Namibianern, die derzeit als Schuhmacher in der Schuhfabrik "Banner des Friedens" Weißenfels ausgebildet werden, gehört auch der 20jährige Leonhard Kandume. Erfahrene Lehrmeister, wie Irmagard Gaebel, vermitteln praktische Fertigkeiten. Nach Abschluß der Lehre kehren die Facharbeiter in ihre Heimat zurück, wo sie ihren erlernten Beruf ausüben werden.
context_page_description: Vetragsarbeiter were foreign workers and trainees who worked in GDR. They were living in the countries long-term, without integration intention as guest workers. However, this did not include employees of foreign companies, foreign students in the GDR, as well as members of Soviet armed forces and their families, refugees or foreign trainees. Contract workers also worked in economically more advanced Comecon-countries such as Czechoslovakia and the People's Republic of Hungary.
  Contract workers were brought in to reinforce understaffed areas of work, such as light industry or the consumer goods industry. The respective conditions, length of stay, rights and number of contract workers were negotiated individually with the respective government. The duration of the residence permit varied between two and six years depending on the origin. A permanent stay, however, was not provided for by contract or by law. The move of family members was excluded. At the end of the contractual period, contract workers usually had to leave the countries and return to their home country.
context_section_description: Vetragsarbeiter (Contract workers) were foreign workers and trainees who worked in GDR. They were living in the countries long-term, without integration intention as guest workers. However, this did not include employees of foreign companies, foreign students in the GDR, as well as members of Soviet armed forces and their families, refugees or foreign trainees. Contract workers also worked in economically more advanced Comecon-countries such as Czechoslovakia and the People's Republic of Hungary.
  Contract workers were brought in to reinforce understaffed areas of work, such as light industry or the consumer goods industry. The respective conditions, length of stay, rights and number of contract workers were negotiated individually with the respective government (by a so-called state contract). The duration of the residence permit varied between two and six years depending on the origin. A permanent stay, however, was not provided for by contract or by law. The move of family members was excluded. At the end of the contractual period, contract workers usually had to leave the countries and return to their home country. In the GDR, the contract workers lived during their stay in separate dormitories, mostly set up by GDR businesses and clearly separated from the local population.
caption: Cordwainer Traini from Namibia at Schuhkombinat Weißenfels 1985
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