Ernst Breit
Ernst Breit (born August 20, 1924 in Rickelshof , Dithmarschen , † February 22, 2013 in Bonn ) was a German trade union official . From May 21, 1982 to May 23, 1990 he was chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB).
Life
After attending secondary school, Breit initially worked in the postal service and was a trainee postal inspector in 1941. He served as a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner of war . In August 1945 he returned to the postal service as an unscheduled inspector at the Heide post office. Immediately after the end of the war, he helped rebuild the trade union movement and was a member of a predecessor association of the German Postal Union (DPG), which was founded nationwide in 1949 .
Already in his first years of service, Ernst Breit turned to the interests of employee representatives . From 1948 to 1956 he was a works council in Holstein . In 1956, Ernst Breit became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and also the District Staff Council of the Oberpostdirektion Kiel . From 1959 to 1971 he was chairman of the main staff council of the Federal Post Office.
In 1971 he was elected chairman of the Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (merged into ver.di in 2001 ) and was later confirmed in this office until he took over the chairmanship of the German trade union federation in 1982 as the successor to Heinz-Oskar Vetter , which he held until he reached the age limit. Ernst Breit took over the office of DGB chairman in a difficult situation for the trade unions - at that time the DGB was burdened by the affair about the new home . In 1990 he handed over the office to Heinz-Werner Meyer .
Even in his retirement, Ernst Breit remained connected to the DGB. So he opened the trade union congress in 2002.
He died on February 22, 2013 at the age of 88.
Private
His daughter Ursula (* 1951) is married to Thilo Sarrazin .
Honors
- 1990: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Ernst Breit , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1990 of October 15, 1990, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Breit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Breit in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 1, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
- Tabular curriculum vitae on www.dgb.de
- "I'd rather have told an unpleasant truth than to lie" , Ernst Breit in conversation with Rainer Burchardt , interview of 31 January 2013, the scope of the series witnesses talking of Germany radio ( mp3 , 19.9 MB, 44 min.)
- “Balance with a sense of proportion”, conversations with Ernst Breit. Edited by Hans-Otto Hemmer, Hans-Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ernst Breit. Key points of trade union policy in the eighties, p. 329 (PDF; 163 kB) trade union monthly bulletins 6'82. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b Former DGB boss Ernst Breit is dead . Süddeutsche.de / dpa / mahu / jasch. February 23, 2013. Accessed February 23, 2013.
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Former DGB boss Breit died. In: tagesschau.de. February 23, 2013, archived from the original on February 26, 2013 ; accessed on February 23, 2013 .
- ↑ The Ulla File . Martin Spiewak, ZEIT ONLINE GmbH. October 4, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
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–)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broad, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), chairman of the DGB (1982–1990) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rickelshof , Dithmarschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 2013 |
| Place of death | Bonn |