David Stetter

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David Stetter (born February 17, 1882 in Wain , † September 17, 1963 in Stuttgart ) was a German trade unionist , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ). From 1948 to 1952 he was Minister of Labor for the State of Württemberg-Baden .

Life and work

David Stetter was born on February 17, 1882 as the son of a shoemaker in Wain. After attending elementary school, he first worked as a shepherd boy in the Allgäu , switched to a farm as a farmhand in 1896 and worked as a house and horse servant in Haslach and Cannstatt in 1901/02 . From 1902 to 1904 he did military service with the 119th Infantry Regiment in Ludwigsburg . He then took up work as a telegraph worker until he got a job as an auxiliary mechanic at the municipal gas works in Stuttgart in 1906. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the war he was used on the Western Front.

Stetter joined the union of community and state workers in 1906, was a shop steward from 1906 to 1912 and then became a full-time union secretary. From 1920 he was a member of the trade union board in Berlin and in 1922 played a key role in founding the General German Association of Officials (ADB). After the National Socialists came to power, he was released for political reasons and briefly held in " protective custody " from July to September 1933 . In the following years he worked as the owner of a book and magazine trade in Stuttgart. He was arrested again in 1938 and briefly taken to the Welzheim protective custody camp. From 1943 to 1945 he worked as an agricultural worker in Upper Swabia . In 1944 he was conscripted to do fortification work in Alsace .

After the Second World War , Stetter took part in the reconstruction of the trade unions in Württemberg and was a member of the Stuttgart Trade Union Federation. From October 1945 he was head of the labor and social policy department in the Ministry of Economics of the State of Württemberg-Baden and in December 1945 received a position as ministerial director in the local labor ministry. In January 1949 he became an honorary member of the main board of the public services, transport and traffic union (ÖTV). He was also President of the Württemberg Singers Association from 1945 to 1950. From 1952 to 1959 he was chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mensch und Arbeit and subsequently its honorary chairman until his death. David Stetter died on September 17, 1963 in Stuttgart.

His brothers Georg Stetter and Johannes Stetter were trade unionists and politicians.

politics

Stetter joined the SPD in 1906 and was a member of the Stuttgart City Council from 1913 to 1920. In 1946 he was a member of the Constituent State Assembly of Württemberg-Baden . After the previous Labor Minister Rudolf Kohl ( KPD ) was dismissed, on July 24, 1948, in his role as ministerial director in the labor ministry, Stetter became the executive labor minister in the all-party government of the state of Württemberg-Baden, led by Prime Minister Reinhold Maier . After the state election on November 19, 1950 and the subsequent formation of a coalition of DVP and SPD, he was confirmed as Minister of Labor on January 11, 1951. During his tenure, he was primarily involved in the design of the severely disabled and dismissal protection laws. Due to the formation of the "Southwest State" of Baden-Württemberg , he left the state government on April 25, 1952.

Honors

literature

  • Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1952 from December 8, 1952

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personal data
SURNAME Stetter, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, administrative officer and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wain
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1963
Place of death Stuttgart