Heinrich Picker

Heinrich Picker (born October 24, 1883 in Rhede , † after 1950) was a German trade unionist . After the Second World War , Picker was temporarily active in leading bodies of the FDGB in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Career

After attending elementary school, Picker learned a trade in the textile industry , in which he then worked. In 1899, at the age of 16, he became a member of the Central Association of Christian Textile Workers . From 1911 Picker worked as a secretary in the Christian trade union, after the end of the First World War from 1919 as district manager. In 1924 he was elected the Saxon state chairman of the Christian trade unions . This made Picker one of the most influential trade unionists in Saxony. Before the party was banned by the National Socialists , Picker joined the Center Party in 1933at. Nothing is known about his activities during the time of National Socialism.

After the end of the war, Picker was one of the members of the preparatory trade union committee for Saxony in Dresden, and subsequently, as a CDU representative, he was briefly 3rd chairman of the FDGB regional association in Saxony. He joined the Christian party in 1945, making Picker one of the few notable CDU representatives in the FDGB. Until June 1950 he was a member of the FDGB regional executive committee in Saxony in phases, from March 1948 to September 1950 he was also a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB. Because of his functions in the union, Picker was also elected to parliamentary functions. First, after the state elections in October 1946, with the mandate of the CDU, he became a member of the Saxon state parliament , to which he belonged in the first electoral period until 1950. In March 1948 he was elected as a member of the 1st German People's Council, this time with the mandate of the FDGB, which was approved as a member of the People's Council. As a result, Picker also belonged to the 2nd German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber . Nothing is known about his further career after 1950.

literature

• Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (eds.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6