Heinrich Wittkamp

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Heinrich Wittkamp (born March 3, 1903 in Schwelm ; † November 1, 1987 in Mannheim ) was a German trade unionist and politician.

Life

Wittkamp was the son of a locksmith. He trained as a carpenter, joined the Catholic youth movement in 1918 and joined the Christian trade union in 1920 . From 1925 to 1926 he completed his years of traveling as a carpenter and from 1927 to 1928 he studied at the Academy for Work in Frankfurt am Main. From 1928 he worked as a full-time secretary at the Central Association of Christian Woodworkers, first in Saarbrücken and from 1929 in the newly established Mannheim district office until it was occupied and closed by the SA in June 1933. After his release, Wittkamp worked for an insurance company. In 1934 Wittkamp was imprisoned for political reasons ; he was a member of a Catholic resistance group in Mannheim that had contacts with the Goerdeler group through August Kuhn . Other members of this group were: Anton Ullrich, Leopold Graf , Willi Huber and August Jung. In addition, he maintained close contacts with Anton Sabel and Anton Storch . From 1940 to 1945 Wittkamp did military service in the air raid police .

In 1945 Wittkamp was a founding member of the CDU in Mannheim. From 1945 to 1949 he was employed as a trade union secretary at the DGB . He was the district manager of the wood union in Rhineland-Palatinate and concluded the first collective agreements. He advocated the principle of the unified union. In 1947, Wittkamp traveled to Dresden on behalf of the union to negotiate with representatives of the FDGB . In May 1949 he was with two other union representatives at the invitation of the US military government as a guest in the USA and completed a training course at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. From 1946 to 1951 he was city councilor for the CDU in Mannheim. From 1949 to 1960 Wittkamp was managing director of the wood union. In 1960 he gave up this position because he saw his own advancement in the union prevented by the excess of Social Democrats. From 1956 to 1974 he sat for the CDU on the Mannheim city council, at the same time he was managing director of the CDU Mannheim from 1962 to 1969.

Heinrich Wittkamp was married and had two children.

Honors

In 1970 Heinrich Wittkamp received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on the ribbon .

In July 2014 Heinrich Wittkamp was honored as a resistance fighter by the city of Mannheim by naming a street.

Publications

  • A contribution to the elimination of unemployment. 1983. In: Documents on the history of the workers' movement in Mannheim: Now even more! Edition Quadrat, 1993, p. 482 f., ISBN 978-3923003471
  • Eighty years of critical citizenship in the 20th century. Memories from a Christian social perspective. Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3878041825 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Grebing, Hans Otto Hemmer, Gottfried Christmann: Das HolzArbeiterBuch: the history of woodworkers and their unions: "Woodworkers, closes the ranks" , Bund-Verlag GmbH, 1993, pp. 196, 201, 297
  2. ↑ NL Wittkamp, ​​Heinrich ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Transcript of the conversations held with Heinrich Wittkamp from September 25 to September 5, 1984, Mannheim City Archives  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtarchiv.mannheim.de
  3. ↑ Erich Matthias, Hermann Weber: Resistance against National Socialism in Mannheim, Edition Quadrat, 1984, p. 393 f.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty years of critical citizens in the 20th century. Memories , Mannheim, 1986, p. 101.
  5. ^ Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty years of critical citizens in the 20th century. Memories , Mannheim, 1986, pp. 61, 67, 79, 102.
  6. ^ Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty years of critical citizens in the 20th century. Memories , Mannheim, 1986, pp. 102, 108
  7. ^ Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty years of critical citizens in the 20th century. Memories , Mannheim, 1986, p. 179 ff.
  8. ↑ Doris von der Brelie-Lewien: Review of Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty Years of Critical Citizens in the 20th Century , in: International Scientific Correspondence on the History of the German Workers' Movement , 1987, Volume 23, p. 264
  9. ^ Heinrich Wittkamp: Eighty years of critical citizens in the 20th century. Memories , Mannheim, 1986, p. 158 ff.
  10. ↑ For Our Information, May 1949, Vol. I, no.20-21 , ILR School at Cornell University
  11. ^ Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , Kohlhammer, 1990, Volume 138, p. 163
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Brach: Mannheimer Gemeinderat 1945–1984 , City Archives Mannheim, Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1984, p. 133
  13. ↑ Mannheim honors resistance fighters: Memory of Fritz-Salm , Morgenweb , July 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Wittkamp, ​​Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1987
Place of death Mannheim