Eduard Backert

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Eduard Backert (born April 2, 1874 in Rottmar ; † February 3, 1960 ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

Backert attended elementary school and was then trained as a brewer . From 1890 to 1892 he went on a roll across Germany. Then he did his military service. In 1892 he joined the Central Association of Brewers in Weida . From 1900 he was Gauleiter of the association in Thuringia and board member of the local health insurance fund in Gera . He also joined the SPD . From 1904 he headed the Prussian eastern provinces. In 1907 he became the second chairman of the Central Association of German Brewery Workers and Related Professions, and in 1914 Chairman of the Association of Brewery and Mill Workers and Related Professions . From 1919 he was therefore a member of the federal executive committee of the General German Trade Union Federation . When the Association of Brewery and Mill Workers and Allied Professions merged with other unions to form the Association of Food and Beverage Workers , he became their first and only chairman.

When the union was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1933, he was taken into protective custody as a precaution . Until then, he was a board member of the Bank of Workers, Employees and Civil Servants . After his release he lived until 1945 unmolested by the Sturmabteilung and the Gestapo in Zepernick , where he also stored the works of his unions and thus saved them through the Nazi era. After the Second World War he worked as an arbitrator and helped build the food-enjoyment-restaurants union , to which he left his private library.

Works (selection)

  • Industriegewerkschaft Lebensmittel, Genuss, Gaststätten (Ed.): Handbook for the functionaries of the Industriegewerkschaft food, enjoyment and restaurants . Compiled by Eduard Backert. Berlin 1948.
  • Our symbols of solidarity and loyalty . Berlin: Association of Food and Beverage Workers, 1931.
  • Guidelines for the work in the local groups, districts and districts , Association of Food and Beverage Workers Berlin, 1928.
  • Finding the Effects of the American Alcohol Ban . Berlin: Reiss, 1926
  • My trip to America Berlin: Vorwärts Verlag 1926.
  • About world beer production . Zurich: Secretariat of the IUF 1926
  • Working hours, wages, payments in kind . Berlin 1924.
  • History of the brewery workers movement . Berlin 1916.
  • The health conditions in the breweries in Germany and the activities of the brewery workers' association in the hygienic area Berlin: Verlag der Brauerei- u. Mill workers 1915.
  • Guide to the handling of the statute and the business of the association (in questions and answers) . Association of Brewery and Mill Workers. Berlin 1915.
  • An extract from our collective agreements from July 1, 1914 Berlin 1914.
  • The free beer replacement in the breweries and related businesses in Berlin in 1913.
  • The development of our local cash registers and their services . Berlin 1913.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://150.ngg.net/selbsthilfe-und-gemeinwirtschaft/bank-fuer-gemeinwirtschaft/index.htm
  2. ↑ a b Eduard Backert. AdsD - Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Sources on the trade union history of the food, luxury food workers and innkeepers: an inventory of the predecessor organizations of the food-pleasure-restaurants union . Archive of Social Movements, Bonn 1984, p. VI – VII ( fes.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Backert, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottmar
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1960