Friedrich Sitzler

Friedrich Georg Sitzler (born August 10, 1881 in Tauberbischofsheim , † January 22, 1975 in Stuttgart ) was a German labor lawyer .

Career

Sitzler was born as the son of high school professor Jakob Sitzler . He studied law and economics at the universities in Strasbourg , Berlin , Heidelberg and Freiburg . During his studies he became a member of the old Strasbourg fraternity Alemannia Hamburg in 1902 .

After the state examination in law, he entered the higher administrative service of the state of Baden . From 1910 he was initially a laborer, from 1915 a permanent employee at the Reich Insurance Office . In 1917 he came to the Reich Office of the Interior , then to the Reich Ministry of Economics and the Reich Ministry of Labor in Berlin, where he served as ministerial director and head of the department for labor law, occupational safety and wage policy from 1921 to 1933. In 1933 he moved for a short time as head of division to the International Labor Office in Geneva, until the Germans left the organization in October 1933. From 1942 to 1945 he was head of the social department at Bleyle in Stuttgart. In addition, he wrote reports for the " Ergonomics Institute " of the DAF and kept in contact with older organizations of social policy that were active in business interests and that he knew from earlier.

In February 1947 he received an honorary professorship for labor law at the University of Heidelberg. At the same time, he taught labor law at the Mannheim Business School .

1952 to 1957 he was chairman of a corporatist society for social progress .

Sitzler has emerged with numerous publications on labor law and social policy. He was a co-founder and long-time editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht (1921–1933), a frequent contributor to the journal Soziale Praxis during the Nazi era (1936–1942), and the social practice department in the Blattei-Handbuch Rechts- und Wirtschaftspraxis.

Awards

• December 1951: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 181-183 ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Friedrich Sitzler , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/1952, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Karl Heinz Roth : Intelligence and Social Policy in the "Third Reich". A methodological-historical study using the example of the Ergonomic Institute of the German Labor Front. Reprint. de Gruyter, Berlin 1993 (2011) ISBN 3598111665

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Sitzler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Friedrich Sitzler  in the German Digital Library
• Friedrich Sitzler's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Reich Labor Ministry 1933–1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 470.
2. ↑ Roth, Intelligence and Social Policy, p. 39f.
3. ↑ Roth, Intelligence and Social Policy, p. 39
4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
5. ↑ p. 39ff. about Sitzler's role in the looting of the Paris branch of the IAA after the German invasion, together with the SD foreign . Readable online. Sitzler: In future, the focus of international social policy will be in the areas of economic community work, for us that means in continental Europe with the Greater German Reich as the center .