Heinz Vietheer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinz Vietheer as speaker at a May Day rally in front of Kiel City Hall (1976)

Heinz Vietheer (born December 23, 1921 in Kiel ; † May 30, 1996 ) was a German trade union official and from 1965 to 1980 chairman of the HBV union.

Life

Vietheer, born in 1921 as the second son of the bricklayer Friedrich Vietheer and Emma Catharina Margretha Carlsson, grew up in Kiel-Friedrichsort . After finishing high school, Vietheer completed an apprenticeship in a law firm. After military service and imprisonment, he was an interpreter and later head of personnel in a company in Kiel. In 1947 he became state commissioner for social care in Schleswig-Holstein . He has been a union member since 1949 and has been a full-time member of the union movement since 1950: first as executive secretary of the trade union trade, banking and insurance , today ( ver.di ) in Kiel; since 1955 as regional chairman of the HBV Lower Saxony / Bremen union; since 1958 as head of department in the Lower Saxony district of the DGB , organization and administration department. In 1960 he became a member of the executive board of the DGB regional district of Lower Saxony / Bremen. In 1964 he took over the management of asset management at the DGB in Lower Saxony. On May 28, 1965, he succeeded Werner Ziemann as the first chairman of the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union (HBV). He officially left the union in 1980 for health reasons. During his tenure, the number of members of the HBV increased from 130,000 in 1965 to 340,000 in 1980. Günter Volkmar succeeded him as Chairman of the HBV . He then moved his residence from Düsseldorf to Otterndorf . From May 18, 1978 to May 18, 1983, Vietheer was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank .

Vietheer was a member of the SPD and was assigned to the “right wing” within the union.

Vietheer could not be recruited as an informant by the GDR's foreign intelligence service, although his friend Arthur Killat (SPD), who worked for the intelligence headquarters under the code name “Kegel”, tried to do so.

Vietheer's estate is 1.1 running meters long and is kept in the archive of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

Works

  • Heinz Vietheer, HBV: Year of Hope? Year of decision! In: The employee from January 1968, PDF.
  • Heinz Vietheer, HBV: consolidating democracy! In: The employee from July 1968, PDF.
  • Heinz Vietheer: HBV - union with great opportunities. In: Outlook from September 1974, PDF.

Web links

swell

  1. ^ Outlook, journal of the HBV trade union. Dec. 1975, p. 5.
  2. ^ Die Zeit, November 9, 1984, No. 46.
  3. ↑ a b Die Zeit, September 12, 1980, No. 38.
  4. ↑ a b Deutsche Bank annual reports from 1978 to 1983.
  5. ↑ The Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic, Department of Education and Research, Helmut Müller-Enbergs, "Rosenholz", a source review.
  6. ^ FES, estate of Heinz Vietheer.
personal data
SURNAME Vietheer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1996