Alfred Klose (trade unionist)

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Alfred Klose (born February 2, 1934 in Zwickau ; † March 25, 2019 ) was a German trade union official . He was the head of the DGB federal school Springe .

Life

Alfred Klose visiting the June 2016 exhibition in the Ahrensbök concentration camp memorial

Alfred Klose, who was born in Saxony before the Second World War, began his professional career in the post-war period as a miner in the Ruhr area and joined IG Bergbau in 1948 . Soon he changed his underground job to jobs as a welder on construction sites, switched to IG Metall in 1960 and was soon elected to the works council of the mineral oil construction company . He took his first trade union qualification measures from 1968.

In 1971, Klose began his work in the Lower Saxony state capital at IG Metall Hannover, for which he worked full-time for 25 years. At first he took over the youth work. In the aftermath of the 1968 movement , the student and peace movement and the Red Dot campaign , he worked with company youth groups from Kabelmetal , Hanomag , Volkswagen AG , Telefunken and Leichtmetall . In the trade union education system and as a trade union secretary, Klose wanted to "improve the life of dependent employees [...], not only in the company, but also in society." As a result, he soon headed the DGB federal school in Springe run by the German trade union federation .

Klose was involved in the solidarity movement for Chile and the Chileans in exile in Hanover, in solidarity with Greece, he supported the Bremen International Peace School , the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - the Association of Antifascists , the Faust cultural center and the "Stadt-Land- Solidarity". He was a co-founder of the Wendland Cooperative eG purchasing cooperative, the Friends of Cabaret Association in Lower Saxony and the archive of the history workshop in the Linden leisure center . He was also active in social movements and, as a networker, supported the magazine Ossietzky , groups such as “Agitprop Hannover”, the intercultural association Kargah, Attac and the Rote Hilfe . He sang in the DGB Choir Hanover, which he co-founded, and worked as an editor for the radio station Radio Flora . Alfred Klose was a hobby beekeeper and was honored with the Hans Böckler Medal.

When asked whether one could change the world with songs, Alfred Klose's credo was:

Quote

"You can't change it directly, but you can inspire it ..."

- Call instead of obituary, Linden-Limmer district magazine from 9.5.2019

The deceased was buried on April 6, 2019 in the Deister forest , where the first authorized representative of IG Metall Hannover, Dirk Schulze, gave the funeral speech.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , supplement family advertisements from April 6, 2019, p. 3
  2. ^ A b c d Dirk Schulze: Funeral speech for Alfred Klose, April 6, 2019, Ruheforst Deister (PDF), igmetall-hannover.de , last accessed on April 12, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Obituary for Alfred Klose on the website dielinke-hannover.de from March 28, 2019, last accessed on April 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Our colleague Alfred Klose has passed away , IG Metall Hannover, April 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Menja Holtz: Admission, Integration and Return of Migrants: The Chilean Exile in Hanover 1973-94. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-89821-440-7 , pp. 40-44, 126f., 150
  6. ^ Funeral speech by Heinz-Dieter Braun
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist and head of the DGB Federal School Springe
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2019