Horst Hornung (trade unionist)

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Horst Hornung (born July 8, 1926 in Dortmund ; † September 17, 1982 ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and politician . He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Hornung, the son of a working-class family, attended elementary school . Between 1940 and 1943 he completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal fitter and then worked in the profession.

From 1945 to 1947 he was retrained as a roofer and worked as a roofer until 1949. From 1949 to 1959 he worked as a body plumber at the Eisenach automobile plant . In 1955 he joined the FDGB and in 1960 the SED . From 1959 to 1976 he was shift supervisor and foreman at VEB Röhrenwerk or VEB Mikroelektronik "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen . Hornung was from 1961 to 1967 member of the company union management (BGL) and from 1967 to 1971 chairman of a department union management. From 1971 he was again a member of the BGL, from 1976 first as deputy, then as chairman of the BGL in the VEB Microelectronics "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen.

Hornung had been a member of the Mühlhausen district board of IG Metall in the FDGB since 1970 . 1971/72 he attended the district school for Marxism-Leninism. Since 1976 he has been a member of the secretariat of the Mühlhausen district executive of IG Metall. Hornung qualified as a master in mechanical engineering.

In 1971 he was elected to the People's Chamber for the Erfurt district , constituency 36 . In 1976 and 1981 he was re-elected and remained a member of the People's Chamber until his death in 1982. As a member of the FDGB parliamentary group, he was there from 1974 to 1976 a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Policy and from 1976 a member of the Committee on Popular Education.

Hornung died at the age of 56.

Awards

literature

  • Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 7th legislative term . Berlin, Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1977, p. 324.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candidates for election to the People's Chamber. In: Neues Deutschland from October 23, 1971.
  2. ^ Obituary notice from VEB Mikroelektronik "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen. In: Neues Deutschland , September 25, 1982, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Hornung, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist (FDGB), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1982