Adolf Ostertag

Adolf "Adi" Ostertag (born July 22, 1939 in Penzendorf ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and a former member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Ostertag was born in Middle Franconia in 1939 . After attending primary school, he began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in 1953 . He then worked in this profession until he studied at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics in 1964 . He refused to do military service and from 1967 worked as a union secretary at IG Metall .

politics

Ostertag joined IG Metall when he began his training, where he was also involved. He was active as a youth representative and in the works council and even became chairman of the works council. In 1968 he joined the SPD and in 1970 became a board member of the Young Socialists in southern Hesse, which he remained until 1971. A year later he became chairman of the working group for employee issues in Sprockhövel , and from 1978 he was active in changing party functions. However, he stayed in Sprockhövel and in 1971 became the educational director of the IG Metall education center , which he remained until he moved into the German Bundestag. From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD and obtained a direct mandate in the constituency of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I in each election . The main focus of interest in the Bundestag was social policy. In 1996 he became chairman of the SPD state group North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag, two years later he became a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive and social policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Publications (selection)

• (Ed.): Labor directors report from practice , Bund-Verlag, 1981.
• with Otto König, Hartmut Schulz: "Our example could set an example!" The "Hattinger Model" struggle for existence on the Ruhr. Bund-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0924-2 .

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag

Remarks

1. ↑ To this end, 29 meetings took place up to October 18, 1985 alone, including in the Frankfurter Rundschau (March 11 and 29, 1985), on radio (WDR 1) on March 14, on WDR television (March 18), in the Daily newspaper from August 5, 1985.