Hans Preiss (trade unionist)

Hans Preiss (born May 31, 1927 , † April 30, 2005 ) was a German trade union official and publicist.

Preiss joined the public services, transport and traffic union in 1949 and was a member of the works council from 1951 to 1959. In 1957/1958 he studied at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main, then he worked as an assistant until 1960. From 1960 to 1962 he was a policy officer in the Hessian Ministry of Labor , then until 1964 employee and education secretary at the German Trade Union Federation in Wiesbaden. In 1964 he moved to the management board of IG Metall in Frankfurt am Main. From 1965 to 1968 he taught at the IG-Metall-Bildungsstätte Lohr . From 1970 to 1972 he was Otto Brenner’s personal advisor and then until his retirement in 1989 he was a managing director of IG Metall. Preiss was responsible for setting the course for trade union education. In 1975 he and Eugen Loderer signed a cooperation agreement with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum for IG-Metall - in his words not a love marriage, but a marriage of convenience, but a lasting one. From the IG Metall educational work, which was shaped by Preiss, u. a. the later federal chairman of the party Die Linke , Klaus Ernst .

Honors

Honorary Senator of the Ruhr University Bochum.

Fonts (selection)

Qualifying instead of firing, Hamburg 1986
Against war and violence - for peace, international understanding, international solidarity, Hanover 1983
From economic crisis to political catastrophe? Berlin 1983
Employees, Frankfurt a. M. 1970
Foreign trade, Frankfurt a. M. 1968
Wage-price spiral? Legend and Reality (with Karl-Fred Zander), Frankfurt a. M. 1963

In addition, numerous articles and guest contributions.