Erwin Ferlemann

Erwin Ferlemann (born March 16, 1930 in Wuppertal ; † September 24, 2000 in Waiblingen ) was a German trade unionist.

Life

He first did an apprenticeship as an export merchant and then a second apprenticeship as a chemograph . During this apprenticeship he became a member of the IG Druck trade union. From 1954 he worked as a color lithographer. In 1960 Ferlemann became a member of the SPD .

From 1969 he was department head for economics and technology at the main board of the IG Druck und Papier . In 1976 he became deputy chairman of the board. From October 1983 he became chairman. In April 1989 the IG Druck und Papier and the art union merged to become IG Medien , of which Ferlemann remained chairman until October 1992.

Ferlemann was a member of the working group literature in the world of work . He took part in the federal delegates' conference of the Association of German Writers (VS) from March 31 to April 1, 1984 in Saarbrücken . In the run-up to this, Ferlemann had spoken of a “fifth column” in relation to opposition East German authors who had involuntarily moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic . In a debate about what, in their opinion, the VS attitude towards socialist dictatorships too compliant , Günter Grass , Heinrich Böll and Jürgen Fuchs argued against the then VS chairman Bernt Engelmann and asked Ferlemann to apologize in vain.

literature

Erwin Ferlemann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/2001 of December 25, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

↑ See the Biermann expatriation and the writers. A German-German case. Minutes of the first meeting of the history commission of the Association of German Writers (VS). Science and Politics, Cologne 1994, p. 230.
↑ Cf. Carsten Gansel , Renate Chotjewitz (Ed.): Verfeindete loner. Writers argue about politics and morals . Structure, Berlin 1994 (Structure paperback 8023), pp. 343–353.

personal data
SURNAME	Ferlemann, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 2000
Place of death	Waiblingen

[1] See the Biermann expatriation and the writers. A German-German case. Minutes of the first meeting of the history commission of the Association of German Writers (VS). Science and Politics, Cologne 1994, p. 230.

[2] Cf. Carsten Gansel , Renate Chotjewitz (Ed.): Verfeindete loner. Writers argue about politics and morals . Structure, Berlin 1994 (Structure paperback 8023), pp. 343–353.