Herbert Ehrenberg

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Herbert Ehrenberg, 1981

Herbert Ehrenberg (born December 21, 1926 in Collnischken , Goldap district / East Prussia ; † February 20, 2018 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1976 to 1982 he was Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs .

education and profession

Herbert Ehrenberg, a farmer's son, visited the East Prussian Goldap the School for Boys . In 1943 he was called up for military service. Presumably he joined the NSDAP on April 20, 1944 . After brief captivity in 1945, he initially worked as a farm worker in Lower Saxony and from 1947 to 1951 as a police officer in Bremen .

Herbert Ehrenberg next to Holger Börner in 1973 at the Federal Congress of Young Socialists

In 1952 he made up his Abitur ( gifted test ) and began studying social sciences at the University of Work, Politics and Economics in the university village in Wilhelmshaven- Rüstersiel, which he continued from 1953 to 1955 in Göttingen . He graduated in 1955 with a degree in economics and in 1958 with a doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. with work Expansive wage policy , a means of income distribution . From 1956 he was assistant to the management in a business enterprise in Bremen and then initially second, most recently as managing director of a medium-sized industrial company in Goslar .

In 1961 he became a lecturer at the higher technical school of the workers' welfare for social work in Düsseldorf . In 1963 he became head of the economic department at the main board of IG Bau-Steine-Erden under the then chairman Georg Leber . Here he was significantly involved in the development of the income policy concept "Wealth formation in employee hands". During the time of the grand coalition ( Kiesinger cabinet ), he moved to the Federal Ministry of Economics as a sub-department head for structural policy . After the change of government (→ Brandt I Cabinet ) he became Ministerial Director of the Finance / Economy / Taxes department in the Federal Chancellery in 1969 .

Political party

In 1949 Ehrenberg became a member of the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV). Since 1955 he was a member of the SPD . Since the mid-1960s he was a member of the Economic Policy Committee in the SPD party executive board, and he was also a member of the extended executive board of the Society for Social Progress. In 1973 he became a member of the district executive committee. From 1975 to 1984 he was a member of the SPD federal executive committee and since 1984 a member of the party council.

Ehrenberg was one of the founders of the conservative Seeheimer Kreis within the SPD. In 1985 he was involved in the creation of the Kurt Schumacher Society . In 2009, Ehrenberg changed wings by co-founding the left-wing working group of social democrats in the SPD (AGSS). As a reason for this, he stated that the SPD policy had changed to the right and that, with his previous positions, he was now comparatively left-wing .

MP

From 1972 to 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1974 to 1976 he was one of the deputy chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group .

Ehrenberg was always directly elected member of the constituency of Wilhelmshaven , most recently he received 48.1% of the vote in the 1987 federal election .

Public offices

From 1972 to 1976 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs .

After the federal election in 1976 , on December 16, 1976, he was appointed Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the federal government led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . With the government reshuffle shortly before the end of the social-liberal coalition , Ehrenberg left the cabinet on April 29, 1982. The health and pension financing for self-employed artists and publicists that has existed since 1983 through the artist's social security contribution is largely due to Ehrenberg and Dieter Lattmann .

Awards and honors

Works

  • Expansive wage policy , a means of distributing income . Goettingen 1958.
  • Union income policy in the social market economy . In: Contributions to economic and social organization. Festschrift for Bruno Gleitze . Berlin 1968.
  • Property Policy for the Seventies . Stuttgart / Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Between Marx and the market - contours of an infrastructure-oriented and distributive economic policy . dtv, 1976, ISBN 3-423-01133-5
  • Active wage policy. Viktor Agartz and union wage policy in the 1950s and 1960s . In: Reinhard Bispinck, Thorsten Schulten, Peeter Raane (eds.): Economic democracy and expansive wage policy . On the topicality of Viktor Agartz . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-282-6 . Pp. 66-81.

See also

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Web links

Commons : Herbert Ehrenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Answer of the Federal Government to the major question from MPs Jan Korte, Sevim Dağdelen, Ulla Jelpke, other MPs and the Die Linke parliamentary group. - Printed matter 17/4126 -: dealing with the Nazi past . German Bundestag, 17th electoral term, December 14, 2011, printed matter 17/8134, p. 13 (pdf; 922 kB).
  2. Hans Apel: We are making a new attempt. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 26, 1985, archived from the original on July 27, 2014 ; accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  3. Lutz Kinkel, Hans Peter Schütz: SPD wing fighting: How socialists want to save the socialists. In: Stern . March 28, 2009, accessed February 27, 2018 . Ralf Wurzbacher: "We are a programmatic provocation": "Working group of social democrats in the SPD" founded. A conversation with Wolfgang Denia. In: young world . April 4, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2018 .
  4. On the death of Herbert Ehrenberg. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  5. ^ Volker Thomas: Unique in Europe - The Artists' Social Fund . Goethe-Institut , September 2008, archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; accessed on February 27, 2018 .