Gerhard Erdmann
Gerhard Erdmann (born January 31, 1896 in Thorn ; † July 16, 1974 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and association official.
Life
Family, world war, studies and managing director
As the son of the regional court director Theodor Erdmann and his wife Toni Windmüller, he attended the grammar schools in Thorn and Posen , where he graduated from high school. He participated as a war volunteer First World War . As a lieutenant in the reserve, he served in Field Artillery Regiment No. 20. After the war, he began studying law and political science in Breslau, Munich and Leipzig.
His doctorate as Dr. jur. He acquired a subject on criminal law in 1921. In the same year he took up a position on the management board of the Association of German Employers' Associations (VgDA). In 1927 he took over the position of managing director of the VgDA. In the following years he helped to set up the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung and unemployment insurance . He also contributed some steps to the development of social and labor law.
NSDAP and functions in the Nazi regime
In 1933 the Nazi government decreed that the VgDA should lose its independence. Erdmann joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2,489,199). When the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie (RDI) and the VgDA merged to form the Reichsstand der Deutschen Industrie (RStDI) on June 19, 1933 , he took over the management of the social economy department in this new institution. He also participated in the so-called Small Labor Convention of the German Labor Front (DAF), which oversaw the central offices of the DAF. He performed this function with Carl Köttgen and Roland Brauweiler , both of whom had previously belonged to the VgDA.
In June 1935 he was appointed general manager of the Reich Chamber of Commerce , and he held this position until 1945. In March 1935 there was a discussion about the position of the Organization of the Commercial Economy (OgW) on the DAF. A DAF economic office should act as a link between the two organizations. For this purpose, at the suggestion of the head of the Reich Chamber of Commerce , Ewald Hecker , Erdmann became head of the economic office. He took on this task from March 21, 1935 to May 9, 1945.
Eichholtz and Schumann cite a memo from Karl Albrecht , the managing director of the Precision Mechanics and Optics Economic Group, dated March 27, 1940, from a meeting of the Reichsgruppe Industrie (RI) at which the relationship between the RI and the Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions was discussed. In this note Erdmann was named as the head of the Munster Armaments Inspection .
Managing Director in the BDA
In the first half of 1949 he was appointed general manager of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA). In 1954 he took part in the conclusion of the Margarethenhof Agreement , which regulated a framework for arbitration in collective bargaining disputes between employers and trade unions. He was appointed extraordinary managing director of BDA in 1957. From 1963 he was a member of the executive committee of the BDA.
Since 1921 he was married to Hildegard Rauschning. In Cologne he last lived in Drosselstrasse. 3.
Memberships and offices
- Chairman of the Executive Board of the Federal Agency for Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance
- Board of Trustees of the German Industrial Institute Cologne
- Advisory board of the Carl Duisberg Society Cologne
- Board of the Union of International Relations, Brussels
- Rationalization Board of Trustees of the German Economy Frankfurt / Main
- Support group of the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne
- Economic Advisory Board of the Nordstern Society in Cologne
- Association committee of the German Employers' Association Cologne
Fonts
- The development of German social legislation. Collection of sources on cultural history , Berlin 1948.
- The Works Constitution Act of October 11, 1952 , Neuwied 1954.
- Economic Democracy and Codetermination. Your legal and state-political problems , Neuwied 1964.
- The German employers' associations in the socio-historical change of the time , Neuwied 1966.
Awards
- 1956: Large Federal Cross of Merit (BVK)
- 1961: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne
- 1967: BVK with a star
literature
- Hermann Teschemacher, Handbook of the Structure of the Commercial Economy , Volume III, Leipzig 1937
- Rüdiger Hachtmann , A colossus on feet of clay - The report of the auditor Karl Eicke on the German Labor Front from July 31, 1936 , Munich 2006
- Reinhard Giersch, German Labor Front , in: Dieter Fricke (Ed.), Lexicon of Party History, Volume 1, Leipzig 1983
- Dietrich Eichholtz, Wolfgang Schumann, Anatomie des Kriges , Berlin 1969
- Walter Habel, who is who? , Berlin 1970
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Erdmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Gerhard Erdmann (1949–1963) | Wolfgang Eichler (1963–1974) | Ernst-Gerhard Erdmann (1974–1989) | Fritz-Heinz Himmelreich (1989–1996) | Reinhard Göhner (1996–2016) | Steffen Kampeter (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erdmann, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1974 |
| Place of death | Cologne |