Hermann Buschmann (trade unionist)

Hermann Buschmann (born November 6, 1886 in Styrum , † October 7, 1979 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German miner and trade unionist . From 1919 to 1922 he was a member of the Gladbeck city council and from 1922 to 1933 chairman of the German Werkmeister Association (DWV).

education and profession

Born as the son of the miner Heinrich Buschmann and his wife Gertraud, née Springmann, Hermann Buschmann acquired the license to do one-year voluntary service after graduating from high school , but immediately began training in mining and attended the mining school in Bochum , one of the most modern educational institutions for technical mine workers. He completed his training with a certificate of employment as a manager, married his fiancée Alma Dettring (1889–1978) in Bochum on August 15, 1912, and moved to Gladbeck . There he had been employed on the state Möllerschächten since October 1912 , where he made it to the Reviersteiger .

Political and trade union engagement

On March 2, 1919, Hermann Buschmann was elected as a candidate for the German Democratic Party (DDP) in the Gladbeck municipal council, which became a city ​​council six months later after it was granted city rights . He was a member of this body until April 1922. Early on, he also volunteered in the German Werkmeister Association (DWV) and was elected to the general works council of the state mines in the Recklinghausen district. The parliamentary assembly of the DWV in Erfurt in spring 1922 elected him in addition to August Leonhardt as one of the two chairmen, and the parliamentary assembly in Würzburg in the summer of 1924 elected him as sole chairman. Buschmann also represented his association as a board member in the General Independent Employees' Association (AfA) and as an employee representative in the Provisional Reich Economic Council . In 1922, Reich Minister of Transport Wilhelm Groener had appointed him to the very influential Prussian State Railway Council. As chairman of the German Werkmeister Association, Buschmann also served as chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Werkmeister-Sparbank AG and of the DWV's occupational health insurance. His commitment can also be demonstrated in the international white-collar movement, because as chairman of the “Werkmeister” section he was a member of the board of the International Association of Private Employees based in Amsterdam. After the National Socialists came to power and the trade unions were broken up, Hermann Buschmann was temporarily arrested in 1933 and then remained unemployed for seven years. After the Second World War he found a job as head of the food and economic office of the city of Königswinter and became politically active again. On April 20, 1947, he ran for the SPD in the first state election in the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia, but missed entry into parliament.

Publications (selection)

• The foreman in business and the modern trade union movement. Lecture by the former chairman of the German foremen's association, Hermann Buschmann, in the Lübeck trade union building on August 27, 1949, printed as a brochure, Lübeck, 1949.

literature

• Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: With passion for our city. The women and men of the first Gladbeck city council , Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8107-0308-8 , pp. 104-107.