Christian Fette
Christian Fette (born February 1, 1895 in Bremen , † October 26, 1971 in Much ) was chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) and a member of the SPD .
Life
Fette, the son of a master shoemaker, learned the profession of typesetter from 1909 to 1913 . In 1913 he became a member of the Association of German Book Printers and joined the SPD. Participation in a celebration on May 1st led to his dismissal from the training company. He was a soldier during the First World War . In 1920 he became chairman of the Association of German Book Printers in Bremen. In 1931 he went to Duisburg and became a full-time trade unionist.
From 1931 to 1933 he was the deputy head of the Association of German Book Printers in the Rhineland and Westphalia. During the Nazi regime he was arrested several times, was under police supervision and was unemployed for several years; finally he was employed as a machine setter at the publishing house of the Kölnische Zeitung .
Immediately after the Second World War, Fette took part in the rebuilding of the trade unions in the western zones . Between 1946 and 1948 he was chairman of the printing and graphics union in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1948 to 1951 he headed the IG Druck und Papier .
On June 22, 1951, after the death of Hans Böckler , Fette became the new DGB chairman, not least because of the recommendation of his late friend Böckler. Already one year after taking office, on October 17, 1952, Fette had to vacate his chair - mainly because he advocated rearming and military and economic ties to the West for the Federal Republic founded in 1949 . In doing so, he supported Konrad Adenauer's policy . This position brought Fette into opposition to the SPD and those union officials who opposed rearmament. He also intended to affiliate the police union as a separate union with the DGB. As a result, ÖTV Fette rejected his renewed candidacy for chairman. It also failed because of the large number of delegates from IG Metall and ÖTV. His own IG Druck und Papier and other smaller unions were outnumbered.
From 1953 to 1958 he was an employee of the press office of the " Neue Heimat " and then retired.
Web links
- Biography in the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich.Ebert Foundation
- Christian Fette at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Hans Böckler (1949–1951) | Christian Fette (1951–1952) | Walter Freitag (1952–1956) | Willi Richter (1956–1962) | Ludwig Rosenberg (1962–1969) | Heinz Oskar Vetter (1969–1982) | Ernst Breit (1982–1990) | Heinz-Werner Meyer (1990–1994) | Dieter Schulte (1994–2002) | Michael Sommer (2002–2014) | Reiner Hoffmann (2014–)
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| SURNAME | Fette, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist, chairman of the DGB, politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1971 |
| Place of death | Much , Siegkreis |