Guntram Schneider

Guntram Schneider (2014)

Guntram Schneider (born July 2, 1951 in Isselhorst ; † January 3, 2020 in Dortmund ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist . He was DGB state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2006 to 2010 and state labor minister from 2010 to 2015.

Life

After attending elementary school from 1957 to 1965 , he was trained as a toolmaker from 1965 to 1968 . On April 1, 1965, he joined IG Metall . In his profession he worked until 1973 and during this time he was already involved as a company youth representative and works council member . In 1974 he qualified for a full-time job in the union by attending the folk high school in Springe . Then he was youth secretary of the DGB circle Bielefeld and head of the DGB branch in Halle (Westphalia) until 1976 .

In 1976 he became head of the youth department at the DGB regional district of North Rhine-Westphalia. He then worked from 1979 to 1982 as the office manager of the DGB state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia. He then moved to the DGB federal board, where from 1982 to 1985 he held the position of head of department in the field of technology policy and foreign employees.

In 1985 he was appointed chairman of the local DGB group in Dortmund . In 1990 he moved to the management board of IG Metall in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked as secretary in particular to the then IG Metall chairman Franz Steinkühler . From 1995 to 2006 he was the first authorized representative of the IG Metall administrative office in Münster , before he was elected DGB state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2006.

Guntram Schneider had been a member of the SPD since May 1, 1971. Further memberships existed with the SJD Die Falken , the Friends of Nature , the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the Fritz Hüser Society and the Foreign Society of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From September 18, 2006 until his appointment as minister, he was a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council . Schneider was chairman of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Turkish Studies and Integration Research .

At an electoral congress of the SPD sub-district of Bielefeld on December 5, 2008, Schneider was nominated as a constituency candidate (first vote ). On September 27, 2009 he lost 34.5% of the first votes in the fight for the direct mandate of the CDU candidate Lena Strothmann , who was able to unite 36.3% of the first votes in the constituency 133 Bielefeld. In the absence of successful coverage through the SPD's North Rhine-Westphalian state list, he did not enter the German Bundestag .

With a large majority of 88 percent of the delegate's votes, Guntram Schneider was confirmed as DGB state chairman on February 6, 2010 at the DGB regional conference in North Rhine-Westphalia in Hamm . Schneider announced that the focus of his work would be the greening of industrial production.

On July 15, 2010 Guntram Schneider was appointed Minister for Labor, Integration and Social Affairs in the Kraft I cabinet by Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft . As a result, he resigned the chairmanship of the DGB district association.

In May 2012 Schneider was elected as a direct candidate for the Dortmund IV state electoral district in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . On June 21, 2012, he was again appointed Minister for Labor, Integration and Social Affairs in the Kraft II cabinet. On October 1, 2015, he resigned from the ministerial office at his own request. He no longer ran for the state election in 2017.

Schneider lived in Dortmund. He was married to the artist Alma Stefanescu-Schneider, who was born in Sibiu , Romania in 1948 and who died in Dortmund in January 2013.

Awards

On November 25, 2014 Schneider was awarded the Georg Schulhoff Prize by the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts in Düsseldorf . The award ceremony honored his services to the promotion of vocational training. The Association for the Promotion of Vocational Education and Training - the Georg Schulhoff Prize Foundation, located at the Chamber of Crafts, referred to Schneider's long-standing commitment to the dual training system in general and, in particular, to the transition system developed and introduced by the Ministry during his term of office School into the profession "No qualification without connection".

Web links

Commons : Guntram Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Guntram Schneider at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
• Guntram Schneider's website ( Memento from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• February 2, 2009: Guntram Schneider at the 2009 Science Symposium: "Learn longer together"
• March 6, 2010: 6th CDU NRW Future Congress in Neuss: Laudation by Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers on the occasion of the award of the Future and Innovation Prize to Guntram Schneider, Horst Werner Meier Hunke, Wolfgang Schulhoff and Paul Bauwens-Adenauer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guntram Schneider: Ex-NRW labor minister died at the age of 68. In: Neue Westfälische , January 4, 2020. Accessed January 4, 2020.
2. ^ Former Labor Minister Guntram Schneider has died. In: Aachener Zeitung , January 4, 2020. Accessed January 4, 2020.
3. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Hüser Society, 2020 / I, p. 2
4. ↑ Board of Trustees of the ZfTI ( Memento from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/guntram-schneider-bleibt-dgb-landesvorsitzender-1.65469 ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive.today ) Rheinische Post February 8, 2010: Guntram Schneider remains DGB - State Chairman.
6. ^ Election results North Rhine-Westphalia 2012 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Prime Minister Kraft presents three personnel changes in the NRW state government. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia, September 21, 2015, accessed on October 1, 2015 . 
8. ^ SPD-NRW biography Guntram Schneider
9. ^ The West April 8, 2010: Portrait: DGB boss Schneider is considered an advocate for workers' rights.
10. ↑ Guntram Schneider awarded the Georg Schulhoff Prize