Franz Deus

Franz Deus (born February 14, 1901 in Düsseldorf , † March 18, 1970 in Essen ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

Deus, who came from a Düsseldorf civil servant family, studied philosophy and theology in Freiburg and Bonn from 1920 to 1925 after graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, as well as economics in Cologne and Münster. As a student he became a member of the KV connections K.St.V. Brisgovia Freiburg, Vandalia Bonn and Ravensberg Münster. He was initially a research assistant and in 1925 in Münster at the social and Caritas scientist Heinrich Weber with a socio-political work on the welfare measures to workers' children in the steel industry in Duisburg-Hamborn to Dr. rer.pol. PhD in political science. He was in-house counsel at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts and then in-house at the Cologne and Aachen Chambers of Crafts .

From 1945 he worked for the Christian-social movement in adult education and in 1948 became the first director of the DGB federal school Hans-Böckler-Schule of the German trade union federation in Hattingen . He also taught at the Dortmund Social Academy .

Deus was a member of the CDU and chairman of the working group for social policy. He was committed to Catholic social teaching. In 1952 he was in Bad Honnef, together with Joseph Höffner , Johannes B. Hirschmann SJ, Jakob David SJ, Franz Josef Wothe , Heinrich Tenhumberg , Alexander Stein and Albrecht Beckel, one of the founders of the AKSB working group for Catholic-social educational institutions . Among other things, Deus was a member of the supervisory board of Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG .

In 1964 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1964 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Deus remained a convinced KVer until his death, at the representative meeting of KV 1959 in Freiburg, he wanted to give the main lecture (topic: endangering or securing freedom through social structures?), But this lecture was canceled due to an acute illness of Deus .

Franz Deus was married to Johanna Bals since 1931.

Fonts

• Care for Hamborner city children by sending them to the countryside and in homes during the war and post-war period , 1926, dissertation
• The task of the trade unions in a community-based order In: Festschrift zum Katholikentag Bochum, 1949
• On the social situation of employees in Germany, ibid
• The new German trade union movement and the Christian (Catholic) social doctrine in: trade union monthly issues 1950, issue 1, pp. 13-17.
• Trade union and education in Lexicon of Pedagogy II 1953
• Trade unions and parliament , Cologne-Deutz Bund-Verlag, 1956
• Trade unions in the development of society , Cologne-Deutz: Bund-Verl., 1963
• 10 years of educational work in the federal schools of the DGB 1950 to 1960 , Düsseldorf Bundesvorstand d. German Trade union federation chief dept. Education, 1960
• Working meetings for employee representatives on supervisory boards: (summary report for the years 1958-1966) , Hans-Böckler-Schule, 1967

Honors

• 1963: Appointment as professor by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1963: Accolade as Knight of the Holy Sepulcher
• 1966: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Siegfried Koß: Franz Deus. In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 6th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 7). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 2000, ISBN 3-89498-097-4 , p. 22 f.
• Manfred Heinemann, Peter Chroust: From General Studies to University Reform , Akademie Verlag 1996

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Gabriel, Hermann-Josef Grosse Kracht: Joseph Höffner (1906-1987): Social doctrine and social policy: "The personal factor" , Verlag Ferd. Schöningh 2006, p. 22
2. ↑ Academic monthly sheets 1959 p. 279
3. ↑ Manfred Heinemann, Peter Chroust: "Oberaudorfer Talks" as a forum for trade union university policy, 1950-1967 , Akademie Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3050029013, page 6