Günter Stephan (trade unionist)

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Günter Stephan (born March 3, 1922 in Cologne ; † April 11, 2012 ) was a German trade unionist and from 1962 to 1982 a member of the DGB federal executive committee.

Life

Günter Stephan attended elementary school in Langenlonsheim and Diez an der Lahn . He then trained as a bookseller . After graduating in 1941, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and served in the Air Force during World War II . He became a prisoner of war.

After the war he worked as an official in Neuwied . He joined the trade union trade, banks and insurance (HBV), in which he had several functions, including a district committee member in Neuwied, youth leader and regional board member for Rhineland-Palatinate. For the DGB he was district secretary in Neuwied and he sat on the state employee committee. From 1958 to 1961 he was the DGB local committee chairman in Essen. In 1962 he was elected to the federal executive committee of the DGB, of which he was a member until 1982. There he was responsible for employee work. He was also a member of the ZDF supervisory board from 1970 to 1982 and made a significant contribution to the development of the public broadcasting system.

In 1967, at the beginning of the Greek military dictatorship , he was instrumental in rescuing a journalist and DGB member. He protested against the establishment of the dictatorship by sending back the commander of the Royal Phoenix Order , "a high order that the King of Greece had bestowed on him for his services to the Greek workers in the Federal Republic", with a sharp explanation.

In 1982 Stephan retired. Stephan last lived in Kaarst .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: http://familienangebote.genealogy.net/detailstod.php?ID=1518977&PID=522
  2. ↑ a b c Günter Stephan. Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on April 1, 2013 .
  3. ^ Günter Stephan: Union media policy - mandate and necessity . In: Union monthly journal . No. 10 , 1979, p. 589 ( fes.de [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Hadobu: freedom and democratic rights for Greece . In: Up: Youth magazine of the German Federation of Trade Unions . No. 6 , June 15, 1967, p. 2-3 .
  5. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stephan, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2012