Hermann Brandt (trade unionist)
Hermann Brandt (born August 2, 1922 in Bremen ; † January 28, 2018 in Hamburg ) was Chairman of the Board of the German Employees' Union (DAG) from 1967 to 1987 ( ver.di since 2001 ).
Life
Hermann Brandt completed a commercial apprenticeship with an overseas shipping company from 1938 to 1941. He was drafted into the Navy in the Second World War (1941-45), became a prisoner of war and, on his return, joined the newly founded German Employees' Union (DAG) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as a financial employee in Bremen in 1949 .
Hermann Brandt completed the second post-war course at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt / Main and in 1949 became the 27-year-old managing director of the DAG in Bremen.
From October 1956 until his appointment to Hamburg , he then headed the 'Commercial Employees' and 'Tariff Policy' departments in the Lower Saxony regional association management of the DAG in Hanover .
In 1960 he was elected to the DAG board at the Federal Congress in Karlsruhe. Specializing in the field of collective bargaining policy, Hermann Brandt became head of the 'collective bargaining and arbitration' department at the then DAG main board. In 1964 he became the deputy of the federal chairman Rolf Spaethen and head of the main department 'tariff policy'. In the collective bargaining disputes, Brandt proved to be a fair and knowledgeable negotiating partner.
The 9th Federal Congress of the DAG in Berlin in October 1967 elected Hermann Brandt with 219 of a total of 254 votes as Rolf Spaethen's successor as chairman.
During the long term of office of Hermann Brandt as chairman of the DAG, among other things, the 'Social Policy Program' passed in 1971, in which the DAG enabled qualified co-determination in the corporate constitution, the flexible age limit, a reform of education policy, wealth creation for the employee, reduction of working hours, demanded improved land and tenancy law and a reduction in press concentration.
From May 18, 1978 to May 18, 1983 Brandt was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank .
literature
- Who is who? The German Who is Who, published by Walter Habel, arani Verlags-GmbH, Berlin, 1970, p. 128.
- News of Hermann Brandt's death in the DAG forum
- Obituary for Hermann Brandt, ver.di-News No. 2 from Feb. 17, 2018 p. 8
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandt, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist, Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Employees' Union (DAG) (1967–1987) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 2018 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |