Erwin Essl

Erwin Essl (born January 9, 1910 in Gießen ; † September 9, 2001 in Munich ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Essl attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school and then did an apprenticeship as a machinist and the master's examination to become a master mechanic. He belonged to the German Metal Workers' Association and the Socialist Youth Workers , until 1933 he was their chairman in Schweinfurt . From 1935 to 1941 he worked in the export division of the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine factory in Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay . During World War II he was interned in England . In 1946 he became the authorized representative of IG Metall and chairman of the district committee of the DGB in Schweinfurt. In 1949 he rose to become district manager of IG Metall for the state of Bavaria, which he held until 1974. During this time he was also a city councilor in Schweinfurt. From 1954 to 1974 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . In the 1954 election he was elected via the Schwaben constituency list, after which he held a direct mandate in Munich. In the state parliament he advocated questions of economic and social policy as well as regional planning and spatial planning, and his commitment also created a chair for occupational medicine at the University of Erlangen and an academy for occupational medicine. In 1973 he founded the Bavarian Society for the Promotion of Relations between the USSR and the FRG .

Web links

• Erwin Essl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History