Heinrich Imbusch

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Heinrich Imbusch
Heinrich Imbusch, City of God (magazine) , 1928

Heinrich Imbusch (born September 1, 1878 in Osterfeld , † January 16, 1945 in Essen ) was a German trade union leader and politician of the Center Party .

biography

Heinrich Imbusch was born as the son of the day laborer Johann Heinrich Imbusch and his wife Gertrud. Born Brüner. His older brother was the future union official and member of the Prussian House of Representatives , Hermann Imbusch . Because of the same first letter of their first names, the brothers were later confused again and again in public. In 1881 the family moved to Frintrop on the Brüner'schen Kotten . While attending primary school , religious instruction by the pastor of St. Josef , Peter Schlenter (1846–1908), had a formative influence on the Imbusch brothers.

After finishing school, Heinrich Imbusch worked underground from 1892 , initially as a groom. In 1897 he joined the Christian Miners' Union with his brother . Most recently he was a picker at Christian Levin colliery . One year after his brother, he took part in a training course at the Central Office of the People's Association for Catholic Germany in Mönchengladbach in 1904 , which was headed by Heinrich Brauns and who he knew from his time as vicar in Borbeck . In the years that followed, Imbusch and his brother also advised foreign miners' associations on union issues. In 1905 he became editor of the Christian miner's newspaper Der Bergknappe ; during the First World War he was used as a military man in Belgium for six months .

From 1919 to 1933 he was first chairman of the union of Christian miners and member of the board of the general association of Christian unions . Imbusch headed the Christian-oriented German trade union federation from 1929 to 1933 . From 1927 to 1933 he was a member of the board of the Prussian Center Party.

During the Ruhr uprising, Imbusch took part in the negotiations for the Bielefeld Agreement on March 23 and 24, 1920, as a representative of the Christian Miners' Trade Union , which he also signed.

Heinrich Imbusch is referred to as one of the fathers of the Reichsknappschaftsgesetz and the Knappschaftsnovelle of 1926. From 1919 to 1925 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council and deputy chairman of the Reich Coal Council .

After the trade unions were banned, he fled to the Netherlands in mid-May 1933 and then to the Saar region at the end of May 1933 , which was then under the administration of the League of Nations . He founded the Neue Saarpost there with Johannes Hoffmann , which was involved in the voting campaign against the reintegration of the Saarland into Germany. The SA tried to kidnap him to Germany. The attempt failed, but Imbusch was seriously injured. In 1935 he fled to Luxembourg and from there in 1940 via southern France to Belgium . After his family was expelled from Belgium in 1941, Imbusch New Year returned to Germany in 1942 and was hidden by friends in Essen until the end of the war. He died a few months before the end of the war in the basement of the Elisabeth Hospital in Essen of pneumonia and exhaustion. At first he was buried anonymously, but after the end of the war he was exhumed and buried in the Essen Park Cemetery.

MP

Since 1903 the Imbusch brothers have been involved in the municipal council elections in Borbeck; In 1907 Hermann was elected for the Catholic Center Party and was a member of the municipal council until 1909. Heinrich was elected to the Essen city ​​council in 1919 , to which he belonged until 1924. As a member of the Center Party, he became a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 and from 1920 to November 1933 a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Westphalia-South.

Honors

Heinrich Imbusch House in Koenigswinter

Publications

  • Employment relationship and workers' organization in German mining. A historical account , 1908 (reprinted 1980).
  • The German miners' union , 1910.
  • On the situation of workers in state mining on the Saar , 1910.
  • The basic position of the union of Christian miners in Germany , 1911.
  • The Saar miners' movement 1912/13 , 1913.
  • Young workers in the mining industry , 1916.
  • Mining workers , 1917.
  • 25 years of the union of Christian miners , Essen 1919.
  • The Imbusch brothers. In: 25 Years of the Christian Trade Union Movement , 1899-1924. Festschrift, Christian trade union publisher Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1924, pp. 194–204.

literature

  • Hans Spethmann : The Red Army on the Ruhr and Rhine. 3. Edition. Hobbing, Berlin 1932.
  • Under the great ban from Hitler: Heinrich Imbusch, the Christian trade unionist who remained loyal to his cause. In: Neuer Vorwärts , No. 219 of August 22, 1937, p. 2.
  • Dieter Schuster:  Imbusch, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 144 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Michael Schäfer: Heinrich Imbusch. Christian union leader and resistance fighter. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34669-3 .
  • Andreas Koerner: Heinrich Imbusch. In: Borbecker Contributions, 8th JG, No. 1/1992 of the Kultur-Historisches Verein Borbeck from April 16, 1992 (see above).
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. A biographical documentation. 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, No. 689, pp. 225-227.
  • Heinrich Imbusch and the German miners' movement. Festschrift, Bochum 1996.
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical association for the city and monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 167 .
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 99f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heinrich Imbusch: The Imbusch brothers. In: 25 Years of the Christian Trade Union Movement 1899–1924. Festschrift, Christian trade union publisher Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1924, p. 194.
  2. a b c Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 167 .
  3. Johannes van Acken : Festschrift for the golden jubilation of the Catholic. Miners and workers' association St. Lambert zu Gladbeck iW , Gladbeck 1921, p. 18.
  4. Hans Spethmann: The Red Army on the Ruhr and Rhine. 3. Edition. Hobbing, Berlin 1932, pp. 101–117, especially pp. 112 and 114.