Gustav Pietsch

Gustav Pietsch (born August 22, 1891 in Berlin ; † February 9, 1956 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Gustav Pietsch was the son of a railroad worker. He attended elementary school and trained as a locksmith . He joined the German Metalworkers' Association in 1907 and the SPD in 1909. He then did an apprenticeship with the Prussian State Railways . He was a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 Pietsch became secretary of the German Railway Workers' Association (DEV), the later unified association of railway workers in Germany (EdED), for which he headed the youth department at the main board from 1925. At the same time he was editor of the magazine "Der Eisenbahner" from 1919/20.

In connection with the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Pietsch was dismissed for political reasons in 1933. According to his own statements, he was also exposed to a series of reprisals by the Nazi regime and was unemployed until 1936. From 1936 to 1945 he worked as a technical businessman.

After the Second World War , Pietsch worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , where he worked in the "Railway Social Insurance Fund". At first he was a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), but was disciplined in July 1948 for political reasons. Therefore, Pietsch became a co-founder of the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO), of which he was a federal executive. In 1949 he took part in the founding of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in London . From 1950 Pietsch was the full-time 2nd chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) in the Berlin district.

In the Berlin election in 1948 , Pietsch was elected to the district assembly in the Wedding district. But in February 1949 he moved up to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin , since Erna Wiechert continued to be district councilor in Wedding. In January 1952 Pietsch moved for the late Peter Rosenzweig in the Berlin House of Representatives after, but in December 1953 resigned from Pietsch from the Parliament. His successor was then Erich Dieter .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 210 (331 pages).
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , p. 612 f. (Short biography).

Web links

• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, FDGB-Lexikon - biography