Ernst Scharnowski
Ernst Scharnowski (born December 5, 1896 in Preußisch Eylau , † March 9, 1985 in Berlin ( West )) was a German politician ( SPD ). In the third electoral term (1957 to 1961) he was a member of the German Bundestag elected via the Berlin state list .
Life
Scharnowski, son of a farm laborer, was a trained locksmith . After working in this profession, he served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 .
In 1918 Scharnowski joined the SPD . From 1922 to 1933 he was secretary in the German Agricultural Workers' Association and in the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in the districts of East Prussia , Pomerania and Saxony . Initially unemployed in the time of National Socialism from 1933 onwards, Scharnowski went into business for himself with a haulage company in 1936 and 1937 and then worked until 1944 as an authorized signatory of a fishing net company in Szczecin . Scharnowski was arrested six times and served in the Wehrmacht in 1944/45 during World War II .
In 1945 Scharnowski became a city councilor in Szczecin. He left Szczecin in 1945 after being detained several times by the Soviet and Polish secret police . In Genthin he became a member of the SPD again, then, as a result of the forced unification of his party with the KPD in April 1946, the SED . From 1945 to 1948 he was district administrator in the district of Jerichow in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ). From here he fled to West Berlin in 1948 after being warned by a communist that he should be arrested . The reason was Scharnowski's opposition to the forced union with the KPD. From 1948 he worked as a works council secretary of the Berlin regional association of the SPD and city council in Berlin-Neukölln .
In May 1948, at the beginning of the division of Berlin , Scharnowski was one of the founders of the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO), the SPD-affiliated split from the SED-dominated Berlin Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). Scharnowski was its chairman from 1949 to 1960 and, after the UGO was dissolved in the DGB, the state chairman of the DGB in Berlin. He also published the monthly Free Word from 1949 .
From 1948 to 1950, Scharnowski was a member of the Berlin city council during the second electoral term . From 1950 to 1960 he was a member of the state executive committee of the Berlin SPD. On the occasion of the federal election in 1957 , the state list of the SPD nominated him as a representative for Berlin. Once elected to the German Bundestag, Scharnowski was a full member of the Labor Committee and was also a deputy member of the Social Policy Committee. Among other things, he was involved in a phased plan that provided for the introduction of the 40-hour week . After his time as a member of the Bundestag, he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives in the SPD faction from 1963 to 1967 in the fourth electoral term .
In May 1974 Scharnowski was co-founder and chairman of the Bund Free Germany (BFD), a West Berlin regional party made up of avowed opponents of the New Ostpolitik , especially from the right wing of the SPD and the CDU . The BFD failed in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 1975 due to the 5 percent hurdle and dissolved by January 1977.
media
literature
- 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. 229 (331 pages).
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 728.
- Ernst Scharnowski , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1975 of May 12, 1975, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Handbook of the German Bundestag, Material No. 127 of the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag from April 1998, p. 186 , ISSN 0344-9130 (PDF; 1.20 MB)
- Political appreciation on the website of the SPD Berlin
- Report on his resignation as Berlin state chairman of the DGB: Scharnowski. Salty liver , in: Der Spiegel , 4/1960, January 20, 1960.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salty liver . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1960 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharnowski, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prussian Eylau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1985 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |