Georg Ringenberg

Georg Ringenberg (born October 30, 1926 in Dortmund ; † February 20, 2009 in Lingen (Ems) ) was a German manager and association official.

Life

Ringberg studied at RWTH Aachen Mechanical and Industrial Engineering . After taking the diploma exam, he was a research assistant at the chair for ergonomics and an employee at the Research Institute for Rationalization at RWTH Aachen University. In 1957 he received his doctorate in engineering. After a staff position at Rheinstahl in Essen, he became head of the central business administration department of Buderus AG in Wetzlar in 1960 . With the main task of restructuring the foundry areas, he was appointed deputy member of the board in 1967 and was responsible for the workforce and technical business administration departments. In 1971 he was appointed a full member of the Group's executive board. He was a member of the Buderus board as Labor Director and Chief Human Resources Officer until his retirement in 1986.

Association work

• At the IHK Wetzlar , Ringenberg had been a member of the general assembly from 1970, from 1972 as vice-president, from 1982 to 1986 as president of the chamber.
• From 1969 onwards he was a board member at the Institute for Applied Work Science in Düsseldorf .
• In the meeting of representatives of the South German Iron and Steel Employers' Liability Insurance Association, he alternately chaired the representatives of the employers.
• Ringenberg was active in collective bargaining and social policy at state and federal level. From 1970 to 1986 he was responsible for collective bargaining policy in the Central Hesse district group of the Association of Metal and Electrical Companies Hesse. In 1986 he was named an honorary member of the board. He was a member of the board of the Hessenmetall regional association in Frankfurt am Main , a member of the Hessian collective bargaining commission and chairman of the performance wage committee of both Gesamtmetall and the Federation of German Employers' Associations . In this role he negotiated the first collective wage agreement on piece wages in Germany. He was a board member and later Vice President of Gesamtmetall and a board member of BDA. For many years he was the head of collective bargaining for employers in Hessen . So he represented the country u. a. 1984 in the dispute over the 35-hour week .

When he retired in 1986, he resigned from all positions.

Web links

• Obituary of the IHK-Lahn-Dill The local economy says goodbye to Dr. Georg Ringenberg , p. 67
• In Der Spiegel 36/1973: IG Metall - a battered dinosaur