German Occupational Safety Museum
The German Occupational Safety and Health Museum was an authority of the German Reich directly subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Labor , which was the successor to the permanent exhibition for the workers' welfare and was specifically intended to serve as a place of learning for maintaining safety and in particular health at work. The seat of the museum was Berlin-Charlottenburg , Fraunhoferstraße 11-12. In 1939 the name was changed to the Reich Office for Occupational Safety and Health . After the building complex had been largely destroyed and burned out in November 1943, the work of the authority, which moved to Soest in 1944, came to a standstill at the end of the Second World War.
history
The forerunner was the "Permanent Exhibition for Workers' Welfare " founded in 1903, the administration building of which was designed by Johann Hückels . The exhibition had to be closed when the First World War broke out in late summer 1914. In the Weimar Republic , the occupational safety exhibition did not reopen until the middle of 1922. In accordance with the new taste of the day, it was renamed the German Occupational Safety Museum in 1927 .
The German Occupational Safety and Health Museum was re-established on April 1, 1930 as a Reich authority. The establishment was connected with the simultaneous abolition of the remaining administration of the Reich Labor Administration. On July 1, 1930, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and the German Reich Labor Minister Adam Stegerwald issued the ordinance on the establishment of a Reich authority, the German Occupational Safety Museum in Berlin.
The museum had a permanent exhibition on occupational safety and security in the home, leisure and, above all, in school. The premises of the museum were also used as a venue and, during the war, as a training center for air raid protection.
The Higher Government Councilor Paul Bertheau became the director of the German Occupational Safety and Health Museum . Engineer Friedrich Ludwig (1872–1945) was a member of the advisory board of the Occupational Safety and Health Museum.
The museum employees included the resistance fighters Elisabeth Schumacher and Erika Countess von Brockdorff , who were executed in 1942 and 1943 respectively .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 22 of July 5, 1930, p. 193.