Fritz Tänzler

Fritz Tänzler (born September 30, 1869 in Burgstädt ; † 1944 ) was a German association functionary. From 1904 to 1913 he was managing director of the headquarters of the German employers 'associations and then until 1926 of the Association of German Employers' Associations .

Life

He was the son of pastor F. Tänzler from Burgstädt and attended the boarding school of the Princely School in Grimma . He then studied law in Leipzig . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. He then completed the usual legal preparatory service and, after passing the assessor exam, worked for the city administrations in Leipzig and Chemnitz .

After the head office of German employers' associations was founded in 1904, Tänzler became the organization's managing director. In the first few years he promoted joining the new association. He also endeavored to organize the employers' associations uniformly. Not least as a result of Tänzler's efforts, the main office merged with the Association of German Employers' Associations in 1913.

Tänzler also took over the management of this merger. He held this position until 1926. Until the First World War , he rejected collective agreements with the trade unions. After the November Revolution, he accepted employee representation and collective bargaining agreements. Tänzler was one of the founders of the central working group for entrepreneurs and employees.

In addition to his actual association activity, Tänzler also emerged as an author of economic and socio-political publications. In the mid-1920s, he traveled to the United States to study and published a book about it. From 1909 he was the editor of the magazine “Der Employer.” During the Weimar Republic he belonged to the young conservative June Club .

Fonts

• The headquarters of German employers' associations , 1907
• Commercial entrepreneurship, its importance for the national economy and the state . 1909
• The general strike in Sweden , 1909
• English employment relationships , 1912
• International Social Policy , 1926
• From Working Life in America , 1927
• By possession to labor peace , 1928
• The German employers' associations , 1929

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achim Knips: German employers' associations of the iron and metal industry, 1888-1914 Stuttgart, 1994 p. 32
2. ↑ Berthold Petzinna: Education for the German lifestyle. Berlin, 2000 p. 123

literature

• Ludwig Heyde (Ed.): International concise dictionary of the trade union system . Vol. 2 Berlin, 1932 p. 1645. Electronic ed .: Bonn: FES Library, 2009