Hans Saalfeld

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Hans Saalfeld (born June 3, 1928 in Hamburg ; † October 28, 2019 in Hamburg) was a German trade unionist , chairman of the DGB Hamburg from 1969 to 1988 and a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

family

Hans Saalfeld comes from a Hamburg working-class family with close ties to social democracy and the trade union movement. He is already in the third generation of the SPD, the trade union and the citizenship. His father Hermann Saalfeld also worked as a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , which was actively involved in the fight against opponents of the republic from right and left during the time of the Weimar Republic . Hermann Saalfeld was also arrested several times during the Nazi regime. His uncle Rudolf Saalfeld was known as an industrial union metal representative in Hamburg. The family suffered severe political reprisals during the National Socialist regime.

Life

After completing primary school, Hans Saalfeld did an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at Heidenreich & Harbeck in Hamburg. In 1944/45 he was called up for military service and was taken prisoner. After his dismissal, he could no longer find work in the metal industry because the industry was completely depressed. So he went to the former GEG as a tradesman and in the same year became a member of the union and the SPD. For their youth organization Die Falken , he worked as a volunteer youth group leader. The GEG colleagues elected him chairman of the general works council and the union sent him to the GEG supervisory board .

Next to former mayor Herbert Weichmann at an SPD state party conference in Hamburg

Hans Saalfeld received further training in national and economic policy seminars and also in the social policy area. This was followed in 1956 by attending the International Cooperative School in Vienna . In 1961 the SPD regional organization sent him as a deputy to the Food and Agriculture Authority. In 1960 he was elected chairman of the NGG union in Hamburg . In 1969 he was promoted to chairman of the Hamburg district of the German trade union federation and held the office until 1988. He moved into the Hamburg parliament in May 1966 and worked there for a total of 25 years, including six years as deputy parliamentary group leader of his party and twelve years as vice-president of parliament.

I see the most important political task of all democratic forces as the preservation of libertarian rights , as his speech on his 75th birthday is quoted: Those who have never lost freedom will never be able to gauge how difficult it is to regain them.

Katja Karger , chairwoman of the DGB Hamburg on his 90th birthday: “We wish Hans, as a long-term and esteemed union colleague, all the best on his 90th birthday. He can look back on a long and meritorious life. Student protests , apprentice uprisings , the German autumn and the RAF , technical upheavals, new home , dying shipyards , mass unemployment , 35-hour week - many topics that are still known and present today - all fell into his tenure. Hans has been particularly committed to one topic: the Bildungsurlaubsgesetz. With this important law, Hamburg was the first federal state to introduce the right to paid educational leave in 1974. "

Publications

  • Bundled strength - the interrelationship of unified trade union and party politics after 1945 in: IG Metall Verwaltungsstelle Hamburg (Hrsg.): "Don't wait for others, now tackle yourself", VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 1995, pp. 11–34.

Memberships

In his capacity as DGB chairman:

Furthermore:

Supervisory board mandates:

  • Norddeutsche Werbefernsehen GmbH
  • AGEKA plumber's cooperative

Honors

He was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal by the Hamburg Senate on October 5, 1993 for lasting services to Hamburg acquired through public work .

literature

  • Handbook of the Hamburg citizenship 11th electoral term. Editor: Hinnerk Fock .
  • Publication DGB Hamburg of 26 May 2003 Hans Saalfeld one of the original 75 is .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Saalfeld passed away. Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, October 29, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 . Xavier Wasner: Obituary. Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, November 11, 2019, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Saalfeld, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2019
Place of death Hamburg