Heinz Dürrbeck

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Heinz Dürrbeck (born June 20, 1912 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt ; † November 21, 2001 in Budapest ) was a trade unionist and from 1954 to 1977 a managing director of IG Metall .

Life

Heinz Dürrbeck grew up in Hanover-Linden in a working-class district. After an apprenticeship, he then completed a degree in electrical engineering . After working in an AEG engineering office in Hanover , he managed to advance his career at AEG in Braunschweig . After 1945 he was involved in the works council and in IG Metall. He joined the main board of IG Metall in 1954 and was responsible for employee work and, from 1962 to 1972, also for trade union education. Under his responsibility z. B. realized the IG Metall education center in Sprockhövel ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), which until 2011 was the largest educational facility of the German trade unions. With the training company training coordinators - each operating at 100 employees should have an education chairman have - tried the Education Department under Heinz Dürrbeck the stewards work of the IG Metall to strengthen and simultaneously attacked thus in the latent conflict and tension between shop stewards, works councils and labor directors a . Heinz Dürrbeck belonged to the left wing of IG Metall under the chairmen Otto Brenner and Eugen Loderer .

Twice, in 1975 and 1994, he was hanged for intelligence work for the Ministry of State Security of the GDR indicted. In 1979 he escaped the first trial by fleeing to Italy and Hungary. The second case - in connection with the kidnapping of IG Metall editor Heinz Brandt in 1961 from West to East Berlin - was, like the first, discontinued without a main hearing.

His sister-in-law was the resistance fighter and member of the KPD state parliament, Herta Dürrbeck .

Publications

  • The golden cage - IG Metall on current questions from AT employees, information from IG Metall, Frankfurt 1976
  • Right instead of favor and grace - the employees today, their interests, etc. Problems, Frankfurt 1969
  • The responsibility of the technician in our high-tech world , presentation, Frankfurt 1967

literature

  • Edith Grosspietsch, Georg Benz (Ed.): Knowledge in order to act. A book of solidarity with Heinz Dürrbeck. Steidl, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 9783882436044 .
  • Stefan Müller: Heinz Dürrbeck - innovator with old goals. In: Bulletin of the Institute for Social Movements (the Ruhr University Bochum). Bochum, 35/2006, pp. 191-206.
  • Stefan Müller: trade unionist, socialist and education worker. Heinz Dürrbeck (1912-2001). Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0201-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WSI-Mitteilungen 9/2010 p. 494
  2. ^ Stefan Müller: trade unionist, socialist and educational worker. Heinz Dürrbeck (1912–2001) , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2010, p. 60
personal data
SURNAME Dürrbeck, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, executive board member of IG Metall (1953–1977)
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart-Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2001
Place of death Budapest