Franz Spliedt

Franz Spliedt (born January 18, 1877 in Hamburg ; † October 18, 1963 there ) was a German politician (SPD).

Live and act

Empire and Weimar Republic (1877 to 1933)

Spliedt attended elementary school in Hamburg from 1883 to 1891 . From 1891 to 1893 he completed an apprenticeship as an upholsterer. In the 1890s he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1901 to 1902 Spliedt lived in England. In 1905 he married. In the same year he became a full-time functionary of the upholsterers and saddlers' union, which he chaired in 1909. From 1916 Spliedt took part in the First World War as a reinforcement soldier , in which he was deployed on the Eastern Front.

In the 1920s Spliedt made a name for himself as one of the leading German social politicians. Among other things, he was involved in the creation of the law on job placement and unemployment insurance . In 1921 Spliedt came to the office of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In 1927 Spliedt became a member of the board of directors of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und Arbeitslosenversicherung , on whose administrative board he had been since 1922. In 1931 he became a member of the board of directors of the ADGB.

In the general election in July 1932 Spliedt was a candidate of the SPD for the constituency 4 (Potsdam I) in the Reichstag elected. After his mandate was confirmed in the November election of the same year, he was a member of the parliament of the Weimar Republic until the March 1933 elections.

National Socialist and Post-War Period (1933 to 1963)

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Spliedt lost his job and was temporarily detained.

In 1945 Spliedt was again a member of the SPD, which was newly founded after the war, and chairman of the administrative committee of the Free Trade Union Hamburg. He also sat on the Zone Advisory Board of the British Occupied Zone (BBZ). A year later, in 1946, he took over the chairmanship of the Hamburg trade union committee. In the same year he became a member of the Appointed Hamburg Citizenship and was a member of the union parliamentary group . He was no longer a member of the first freely elected citizenship in October 1946. He caused a greater stir with his “hunger appeal” to other countries, and in particular the United States, in which he referred to the catastrophic food situation in Germany and the moral and material decline of the German economy.

In the following years, Spliedt publicly emerged as a critic of East German denazification - whom he accused of accepting useful people classified as “guilty” in West Germany as “unencumbered” when they moved to the East - and of the land reform there . He also expressed a traditional understanding of women when he asked the British military government to ensure that women’s protection on the labor market is maintained so that women, as the “mother and sustainer of the German people [...] do not suffer any harm”.

From 1950 to 1952 Spliedt was editor of the magazine Welt der Arbeit , as well as chief editor of the union organ Der Bund . He was also a co-founder and partner of Bund-Verlag.

Awards

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• The DGB named a former youth home and educational institution in Lütjensee after Franz Spliedt.

Fonts

• The development of working conditions in the German upholstery industry , slea
• The problem of unemployment insurance in Germany , Berlin 1925.
• Law on job placement and unemployment insurance of July 16, 1927, amended by Article 4 of the law on health insurance for seafarers of December 16, 1927 (RGBl. I p. 337) and by the law on the continued application of transitional provisions in unemployment insurance and in the Crisis support of March 23, 1828 [rather 1928] (RGBl. I p. 109) and by law on special welfare in the event of customary unemployment of December 24, 1928 , 1928.
• The unemployment insurance for home workers and home workers , Berlin 1931.
• The care of the unemployed according to the latest legislation , Berlin 1932.
• Ordinance on short-time working support of October 30, 1928 in the version of the ordinance of November 5, 1930 , Berlin 1931.
• The unions. Development and successes. Your reconstruction after 1945 , Hamburg 1948.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The time of November 7, 1946.
2. ↑ Der Spiegel 17/1947, p. 4.
3. ↑ Klaus Jürgen Ruhl: Verordere Unterordnung , 1994, p. 38.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 183 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Karl Lauschke:  Spliedt, Franz Mathias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 730 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Franz Spliedt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Franz Spliedt in the files of the Reich Chancellery
• Literature by and about Franz Spliedt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Franz Spliedt in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .