Hermann Beermann

Hermann Beermann as speaker at a May Day rally in Kiel's Ostseehalle (1968)

Hermann Beermann (born August 28, 1903 in Linden near Hanover, † August 18, 1973 in Neuss ) was a German model carpenter and union official .

Life

Hermann Beermann was born in the late founding period of the German Empire as the son of a working-class family in Linden , the then still independent industrial city near Hanover. After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a model maker in order to later complete further training at a mechanical engineering school.

After the First World War , the outbreak of which Beermann had only experienced as a child far from the war front, he joined the union of the German Woodworkers' Union as a youngster at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1919 , and also became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) at an early age .

After the SPD suffered a severe defeat in the local elections on May 2, 1924 in Hanover and almost 4% of those eligible to vote had elected the Völkisch-social bloc and thus, for example, Bernhard Rust as one of now three representatives of the “Völkische” in the senior citizens' council , Hermann Beermann joined the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK) in the middle of the so-called " Golden Twenties " .

After the seizure of power , Hermann Beermann went into resistance against National Socialism in 1933 , making illegal contacts in Switzerland and the Netherlands . After repeated raids , permanent shading and repeated arrests by the Gestapo , he was in 1938 of high treason accused and by the People's Court to two years in prison convicted. Afterwards he was under police supervision , but did not give up his resistance work despite these difficult conditions.

After the Second World War , which came to an end in Hanover after the invasion of American troops before the capitulation of the Third Reich , Hermann Beermann, alongside Louis Böcker and Albin Karl, with the approval of the British military government after 1945, played a major role in rebuilding the trade unions in Hanover acted first in the provisional board of the "General Union". He was also actively involved in building up the SPD in Lower Saxony and was a member of the district executive of the SPD district of Hanover.

From 1947 to 1956, Beermann initially chaired the DGB state district of Lower Saxony-Bremen .

At the same time, Hermann Beermann took over the chairmanship of the administrative board from 1953 and until 1967, and from 1957 that of the board of directors of the Federal Employment Agency .

From 1956 to 1969, Beermann was also a member of the DGB Federal Executive Committee, primarily responsible for social policy, while in 1962 he had already been elected Deputy Federal Chairman of the DGB.

In the meantime, Beermann had also been a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Economic Community (EEC) in Brussels since 1958 .

In addition, Hermann Beermann became a member of the Board of Directors of the International Labor Office in 1963 and was elected Vice-President of the International Labor Conference in 1968.

Hermann Beermann died in Neuss in 1973.

Fonts (selection)

• Hermann Beermann (responsible): Occupational safety. Speaker material. Publication on the occasion of the campaign against the accident in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen from January 1 to June 30, 1965 , 42 pages, Düsseldorf: German Federation of Trade Unions, Federal Executive, Social Policy Department
• Ludwig Rosenberg , Hermann Beermann, Waldemar Reuter: Dangers from emergency laws. Demonstration on the intended emergency laws on November 2, 1967 in Bonn , 23 pages, Düsseldorf: German Trade Union Federation, Federal Executive, 1967
• Hermann Beermann (responsible): Occupational medicine (= DGB memorandum on occupational health care for employees , vol. 1), 58 pages, [Düsseldorf]: German Trade Union Federation, 1969
• Hermann Beermann (Red.): Occupational safety. Cooperation between works councils and supervisory services , as of January 1969. Reprint for the officials of the Metalworkers Union for the Federal Republic of Germany, [Düsseldorf]: German Trade Union Federation, Federal Board , Dept. Social Policy, [1971]

literature

• Andreas Röpcke : Who's Who in Lower Saxony. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Vol. 55, 1983, p. 260
• Hartmann, Franz. In: Landesgeschichte im Landtag , ed. by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2007, p. 451

Archival material

An archive of and Hermann Beermann be found, for example,

• In the DGB archive in the archive of social democracy : So far, 1 running meter of files has not yet been fully indexed, including from Hermann's time as executive member of the federal board responsible for the (main) social policy department from 1956 to 1969 and occasionally from the time as DGB state district chairman , see also holdings of the DGB regional district Lower Saxony-Bremen (signature 5 / DGBJ )

Web links

• Hermann Beermann on the side of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Beermann, Hermann in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on February 19, 2008, last accessed on November 11, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Klaus Mlynek : Beermann, Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 44f.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Linden. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 406ff.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Compare Hermann Beermann on the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website , last accessed on November 11, 2016
5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: "Relative" Stabilization: 1924–1928 . 2.1: Political turning point: Fall of Leinerts, Wahl Menges , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994 , ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 430-433
6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 994f.
7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Böcker, Louis. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 60; online through google books