Bruno Gleitze

Bruno Gleitze (born August 4, 1903 in Berlin ; † November 17, 1980 there ) was a German economist, university professor and politician of the SPD . The Gleitze plan is a concept named after him for employee participation in production assets.

Life

Bruno Gleitze was the son of a Berlin carpenter. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship in local government from 1917 to 1919. In 1923, in close cooperation with Kurt Löwenstein , the then city councilor for public education in Berlin-Neukölln, and Fritz Karsen, he organized the first high school graduate course at what would later become the Karl Marx School (Berlin-Neukölln) , which he himself completed with the Abitur.

He joined the SPD in 1919 and was elected chairman of the Berlin youth workers in the same year . With the compulsory unification he became a member of the SED , but became a member of the SPD again after moving to the West.

One of the first students to receive a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation was to study economics and political science in Berlin. He graduated in economics in 1930. As a student, he took on a leading role in the socialist student body. In 1932 he was elected chairman of the Student Socialist International . After the NSDAP came to power, he was briefly imprisoned in Plötzensee . After that, he remained unemployed for a long time and lived with his newly founded family on unemployment benefits (Alfu). It was not until the end of 1935 that he became a company statistician at AEG in Berlin; he was employed there when he received his doctorate in 1941 .

After the Second World War he was from 1946 to 1948 a lecturer at the Humboldt University , including as the founding dean of the new Faculty of Economics, and headed for the Soviet occupation zone competent German Central Statistical . In 1948 he moved to West Berlin and from 1949 worked at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin-Dahlem. From 1956 to 1968 he headed the Economic Institute of the German Trade Union Confederation, of which he had been a member of the management since 1954. He was also a member of the research advisory board for questions relating to the reunification of Germany . In addition, from 1966 to 1967 he was briefly Minister for Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Transport for North Rhine-Westphalia. Gleitze dealt intensively with questions of inter-company wealth creation. In 1957 he designed his model, the so-called Gleitze-Plan, in which employees should be involved in the formation of capital in companies through statutory regulations . According to Gleitze, all large companies should cede at least ten percent of their gross profits to an inter-company so-called social capital fund.

Honors

• 1967: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Friedrich Lenz (Ed.): Contributions to economic and social organization. Festschrift for Bruno Gleitze on the occasion of his 65th birthday on August 4, 1968. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968, DNB 456061371 .
• Karl Christian Thalheim: Bruno Gleitze as an economic and cultural researcher. As a celebration on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-428-04283-2 .

• Bodo B. Gemper (Ed.): Stability in Change. Economy and politics under the dictates of evolution. Festschrift for Bruno Gleitze on his 75th birthday. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1978, ISBN 3-428-04302-2 .

• Bruno Gleitze: Social capital and social funds as means of wealth policy. (= WWI study. No. 1). Cologne-Deutz 1968, DNB 456761446 .
• Bruno Gleitze: Social capital from participation in the completed wealth creation of large companies. In: Employee participation in profits - International conference of the Dortmund Social Academy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1965, DNB 451165292 , pp. 53-57.
• Hildegard Wiegmann: Broader spread of wealth. Plans - Possibilities - Limits . (PDF; 6 MB). In: Yearbook of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. Vol. 2, Münster 1961, pp. 147-229

See also

Cabinet Kühn I

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Gleitze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paradise of the rich . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1969, p. 38 ff . ( online ).
• Cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Henriette Hättich (Ed.): Democracy needs democrats. Student funding as a socio-political task. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Student Support Department, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-89892-850-2 . (Available on the Internet under: Democracy needs democrats )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henriette Hättich (Ed.): Democracy needs democrats. 2015, p. 18.
2. ↑ Ingrid Neumain: Class fighter on the ministerial chair, Die Zeit, December 30, 1966
3. ↑ Bruno Gleitze's biography at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung