Franz Rosenbruch

Franz Rosenbruch (born June 28, 1898 in Braunschweig ; † February 20, 1958 ibid) was a German politician ( SPD ), trade union official and member of the Appointed Braunschweig Parliament .

Rosenbruch attended elementary school. Then he learned the lathe trade . In 1916 he joined the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). In November 1916 he was drafted for military service in the First World War. From the end of 1918 to 1924 Rosenbruch worked as a foreman in a Braunschweig factory until he moved to Büssing AG in the same location in 1924 . Rosenbruch was employed there until 1933. He was chairman of the DMV shop stewards and works council in this company .

After the National Socialists came to power, Rosenbruch was elected to the Landtag of the Free State of Braunschweig in the spring of 1933. As an opponent of the Nazi regime, he was quickly targeted by the persecutors. At the end of March 1933 took members of the Sturmabteilung of the NSDAP Rosenbruch firm and abused him severely. After his release from prison, Rosenbruch first went into hiding in Hanover. Only a few weeks later he emigrated to the Netherlands . But at the end of 1934 he returned to Braunschweig, where he worked again as a foreman and foreman at Büssing AG until 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War , Rosenbruch was particularly active in rebuilding the trade unions in Braunschweig in 1945/46. He took the position that the individual "economic groups" should develop into autonomous industrial unions as quickly as possible. Soon afterwards he took over the chairmanship of the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel district committee for the German Trade Union Federation (DGB).

Rosenbruch held numerous honorary positions, including a. as Vice President of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From February 21, 1946 to November 21, 1946 he was a member of the Appointed Braunschweig Landtag.

literature

• Siegfried Mielke , Swen Steinberg: Franz Rosenbruch (1898–1958) , In: Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz (Ed.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrated metal trade unionists in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 731-738.
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996.
• Bernhard Kiekenap : Karl and Wilhelm: Braunschweig nach 1848 , Volume 3, Verlag Appelhans, 2004, ISBN 3937664076 , page 391.
• Portrait of Franz Rosenbruch, In: "World of Work", Lower Saxony-Bremen edition, February 28, 1958.
• Holdings of the open archive of the Schillerstraße Memorial in Braunschweig, online