Heinz Oskar Vetter

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Heinz-Oskar Vetter 1978

Heinz Oskar Vetter (* 21st October 1917 in Bochum , † 18 October 1990 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD , which on 21 May 1969 to 21 May 1982 as Chairman of the German Trade Union Federation officiated .

Life

His father, Oskar Vetter, had long been a leading member of the Baptist congregation in Bochum-Werne and an early member of the NSDAP . Heinz Oskar Vetter switched from Christian youth to the young people of the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1937 he became a young tribe leader. Before the Second World War , Vetter worked as a locksmith in the mining industry before taking his Abitur examination in 1939 . During the war he was a lieutenant in the Air Force . After a brief captivity, he returned to his original profession in 1946.

After attending the trade union academy for community economy from 1949 to 1951, he became a trade union secretary at IG Bergbau und Energie in 1952 . In 1960 he was promoted to the board of his union, of which he became vice chairman in 1964.

In 1969 the DGB finally elected Vetter as chairman of its federal executive committee. In addition, from 1974 to 1979 he was President of the European Trade Union Confederation in Brussels . In 1979 the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions , which is also based in Brussels, elected him as its vice-president. His successor as DGB chairman was Ernst Breit .

Heinz Oskar Vetter was chairman of the supervisory board of Neue Heimat and was involved in their affair.

In addition to his work as a trade unionist, Heinz Oskar Vetter was also active as a politician for the SPD, of which he had been a member since 1953. In 1979 he was elected to the European Parliament for the party , where he was a member of the Socialist Group for ten years.

Vetter was also a member of the Trilateral Commission .

Publications

  • Equal Rights or Class Struggle: Trade Union Policy for the Eighties / Heinz Oskar Vetter. Editorial design: Walter Fritze. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7663-0415-1 .
  • Heinz Oskar Vetter (Ed.): Humanization of work as a socio-political and trade union task . Minutes of the conference of the German Trade Union Confederation on May 16 and 17, 1974 in Munich. European Publishing House Frankfurt am Main 1974. ISBN 3-434-10068-7 .
  • Heinz Oskar Vetter (Ed.): Learning from history - shaping the future. Thirty years of the DGB . Minutes of the scientific conference on the history of the trade unions on October 12 and 13, 1979 in Munich. Bund-Verlag Cologne 1980.

literature

Honors

Web links

Commons : Heinz Oskar Vetter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ immanuelskirche-bochum.de
  2. ↑ From the youth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1980 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
  4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Heinz Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1990
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr