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Gustav Schiefer (born July 17, 1876 in Fautspach ; † May 19, 1956 in Munich ) was a German trade union leader and city councilor ( SPD ). From 1947 until his death he was a member of the Bavarian Senate and from 1947 to 1953 its 1st Vice President.

Career

Schiefer was born as the son of Maria Schiefer. From 11 to 14 years of age he attended elementary school, interrupted by a six-month activity as a brickworker, with which he contributed to the maintenance of the family. Between 1890 and 1894 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, which lasted three and a half years because the family could not pay the tuition fee. Subsequently, his years of traveling took him as a journeyman through Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. After his return he did his military service from 1897 to 1899.

As early as 1894 he joined the woodworkers' association of the trade union movement, to which he remained closely connected throughout his life. From 1900 he worked in the field of social policy, initially as an employee at the Main Association of German Health Insurance Funds . In 1908 he was one of the co-founders of the Münchner Ortskrankenkasse and in 1911 got a job at the Munich Trade Union Association. There he was responsible for the elections of the self-governing bodies within the framework of the Reich Insurance Code (RVO) throughout Bavaria. The participation as a soldier in the First World War interrupted his professional career. After the end of the war, in 1918, he took over the management of the Munich local committee of the General German Trade Union Confederation (ADGB) as executive chairman and, after the November Revolution , was briefly the third secretary of the Provisional National Council of the Munich Soviet Republic . He was later elected chairman of the Munich Trade Union House Association. Schiefer continued to be politically active within the SPD and entered the Munich city council in 1924 .

The " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 led to a sharp turning point in Schiefer's career. He was dismissed as ADGB managing director and lost his seat on the city council. As a result, he was active at the side of Wilhelm Leuschner and Jakob Kaiser in the resistance against National Socialism . After his imprisonment, he was imprisoned in Stadelheim prison and in Dachau concentration camp .

From May 1945 he was reinstated as chairman of the general local health insurance fund in Munich , as chairman of the regional association of general local health insurance funds in Bavaria and as a board member of the local health insurance fund associations in Germany. From 1950 to 1953 he was deputy state chairman of the DGB state district of Bavaria .

He was a member of the appointed and later elected Munich City Council from 1945 to 1952 and was a member of the state constituent assembly from July 1946 . When the Bavarian Senate was constituted on December 4, 1947, he was appointed its 1st Vice President. He held this office until December 31, 1953. He was a member of the Senate until his death in June 1956.

Honors

literature

  • Marion Maurer: Schiefer, Gustav. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 674 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Ritter von Klimesch (ed.): Heads of politics, economy, art and science. Augsburg, Naumann 1953

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personal data
SURNAME Schiefer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German union leader and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Fautspach
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1956
Place of death Munich