Franz Josef Furtwängler

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Franz Josef Furtwängler (born June 12, 1894 in Vöhrenbach ; † July 23, 1965 ibid) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Franz Josef Furtwängler completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith after attending primary school. During his apprenticeship he joined the German Metalworkers' Union (DMV) in 1908 . Following his apprenticeship, Furtwängler continued his education as an autodidact and as a student at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris . Before the First World War , he traveled to Western Europe and - as a ship engineer - the coasts of Africa. After the end of the war, Furtwängler began studying at the Frankfurt Academy of Work .

In 1919 Furtwängler joined the SPD . From 1923 he worked as a foreign secretary at the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Berlin . In the course of this activity he became a close associate of the chairman Theodor Leipart . At the beginning of 1933, Furtwängler and a group of younger ADGB functionaries, including Lothar Erdmann , advocated rapprochement between the union movement and the NSDAP. In April 1933 he wrote the article "Reich Unity after 300 Years!" In which he praised Hitler's takeover. However, the Nazi Party did not respond to such offers, the trade union movement was smashed on May 2, 1933 Furtwängler May to October 1933, prison taken. He and his family emigrated to Hungary in 1934 and worked there as an oil engineer. In 1938 his work permit expired and he had to return to Germany. During the Second World War , Furtwängler had contacts with the Kreisau district . This relationship with the resistance group gave rise to his activity in the Foreign Office as an orientalist. The Independent Commission of Historians - Federal Foreign Office writes about this in its report:

“In addition to Albrecht von Kessel (1902–1976), the circle of friends and acquaintances around Haeften and Trott included the slightly older Franz Josef Furtwängler; the former foreign secretary on the board of the General German Trade Union Confederation worked in the information department from 1941. He introduced Trott to Julius Leber , the former SPD member of the Reichstag who was one of the key figures on July 20th . "

After the end of the Second World War, Furtwängler had been employed as a political assistant for newspaper and radio media from 1945. From 1946 to 1949 he was director of the reopened Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main and from 1955 to 1963 lecturer at the State Engineering School in Darmstadt. In addition, Furtwängler was elected as a non-judicial member of the State Court of Hesse . He was a representative of the trade unions in the German Council of the European Movement .

MP

Franz Josef Furtwängler was a member of the Hessian state parliament for the SPD from 1950 to 1954 . The Landtag elected him a member of the second Federal Assembly , which in 1954 re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President.

Publications

The Brahmin land in the spring light
  • Work and classes in the course of history. Publishing company of the ADGB, Berlin 1925.
  • Working India. His becoming and his struggle. Due to the trip to India of the German textile workers' delegation. Together with Karl Schrader. Publishing company of the ADGB, Berlin 1928.
  • India - the Brahmin country in the spring light. Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin, 1931.
  • Significance and future tasks of the labor movement. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1947.
  • Men I saw and knew. Auer, Hamburg 1951.
  • ÖTV. The story of a union. Union, Stuttgart 1955.
  • The unions. Your history and international impact. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1956.
  • Vöhrenbach, a Black Forest community in the industrial age. City of Vöhrenbach, Vöhrenbach 1961.

literature

  • Elisabeth Barooah, Nirode K. Barooah: Franz Josef-Furtwängler. A German Trade Union Internationalist's extraordinary engagement with India. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt / Germany 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-4308-5 .
  • Willy Buschak : Franz Josef Furtwängler: trade unionist, traveler to India, resistance fighter. A political biography. 1st edition. Klartext-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0387-6 .
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Johannes Hürter : Volume 1: A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 258 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Josef Furtwängler: The trade unions. Your history and international impact. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1956, p. 134.
  2. ^ Hermann Weber, Klaus Schönhoven, Klaus Tenfelde (eds.): The trade unions in the final phase of the republic 1930-1933. Cologne 1988, p. 52.
  3. ↑ Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes and others. Moshe Zimmermann (ed.): The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Blessing, Munich 2010, p. 301.
  4. ^ Furtwängler, Franz Josef . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 344 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Furtwängler, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Voehrenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1965
Place of death Voehrenbach