Background
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.
economist politician member of the Volkskammer
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.
In 1955 she became the deputy director of the FDGB-schools of Beesenstedt and Grünheide. She worked as a lecturer and later Professor at the FDGB-college "Fritz Heckert". Töpfer committed suicide on 7 January 1990.
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)".
Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany]
Töpfer was a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) since 1945 and of the SED since 1949. Töpfer was a member of the executive board of the FDGB in 1956-1959 and a member of the FDGB-presidium in 1968-1989. In 1971 she also became a member of the Central Committee of the SED (until 1989) and in 1976 a member of the East German Parliament "Volkskammer".