Erich Lübbe

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Erich Lübbe

Erich Lübbe (born November 22, 1891 in Berlin ; † February 15, 1977 there ) was a German trade unionist, socialist politician and resistance fighter against the National Socialist regime .

Life

Lübbe attended elementary school in Berlin and began an apprenticeship as an electrician, which he broke off. From February 1909 he successfully completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. After completing his apprenticeship, he first worked as a trained lathe operator in the “Wollenberg” sewing machine factory. Between 1916 and 1919 he studied mechanical engineering and worked for a screw and car manufacturer. In April 1915, Lübbe entered military service during the First World War. In August of the same year he was postponed from military service because he was more likely to be needed in production as a qualified metal worker. He then worked for the Siemens group as an electrician and lathe operator.

Already in June 1910 Lübbe had joined the free trade union German Metal Workers' Association (DMV), in which he took over functions a year later. Later he belonged to the local DMV administration in Berlin. In 1917 or 1918 he became a member of the USPD . In 1922 he switched to the SPD . Since 1921 Luebbe was with Siemens & Halske Chairman of the Central Works Council . He was also a member of the main board of the DMV between 1930 and 1933. At the same time, he took on several functions in connection with the works council work of the DMV, including in the works council advisory board.

As a successor, Lübbe became a member of the Reichstag in November 1932 . In the March elections in 1933 he won another seat in the Reichstag. In the vote on the Enabling Act , Lübbe was one of the SPD MPs who voted "no".

After the beginning of National Socialist rule , Lübbe lost his position as works council chairman at the end of March 1933. Lübbe was affected by house searches and police surveillance. Nevertheless, he joined the illegal group around Max Urich . After his arrest, Lübbe, together with Otto Eichler and Erich Bührig, took on a leading position in the illegal metal trade union work against the Nazi regime. From the spring of 1935 Lübbe worked as a radio technician in the Heliowattwerke-Elektrizitäts-AG in Berlin-Charlottenburg. As part of the special war campaign , he was arrested at his workplace on September 1, 1939. He was then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He remained in custody in the concentration camp until the end of the Nazi regime and was sent on a so-called death march in April 1945. He was finally freed in the Belower Forest and returned to Berlin on the footpath.

After the end of National Socialism, Lübbe took part in the political and union rebuilding. Among other things, he was involved in the rebuilding of the party in Berlin as secretary of the district executive committee of the SPD. From October 1945 he was also the main secretary of the central committee of the SPD . At the same time, Lübbe was a co-founder of IG Metall in the FDGB and a member of its board. In 1946 Lübbe took part in the forced union with the KPD to form the SED and was a member of the Berlin city council from the end of October 1946 . Lübbe became a city councilor and head of the city's operations. He was also a member of the SED state committee in Berlin. At the end of November 1948 he resigned from all party offices and resigned from the SED. He moved to West Berlin , where he had had another apartment for years. In 1951 he rejoined the SPD.

Between 1951 and 1954 Lübbe was head of the co-determination department of the DGB federal board . After that he was managing director of the “Mitbestigung” foundation, a predecessor organization of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, until 1961.

His estate is in the archive of social democracy .

literature

  • Ingrid Fricke: Erich Lübbe (1891-1977) , In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the assistance of Marion Goers: Functionaries of the German Metal Workers' Association in the Nazi State. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - resistance - emigration. Volume 1). Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-059-2 , pp. 407-415.
  • Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 176 (331 pages).
  • Ditmar Staffelt : The Reconstruction of Berlin Social Democracy 1945/46 and the Unity Question - a contribution to the post-war history of the lower and middle organizational structures of the SPD , Verlag Peter Lang 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9176-0 , p. 432.
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century . Marburg 2000, p. 210.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Luebbe, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (USPD, SPD, SED), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1977
Place of death Berlin