Hermann Grothe (trade unionist)

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Hermann Grothe (born November 25, 1860 in Halle an der Saale ; † December 1, 1940 in Erlangen ) was an important figure in the German trade union movement and in cooperative construction in the Rhineland .

The post office clerk Grothe was a key figure in the establishment of unions in the Deutsche Post division. In 1887 he founded a sociable association of postal assistants called "Für uns" at his place of work in Magdeburg . Due to his efforts to improve the working conditions of the post office officials, Grothe was subsequently transferred several times. However, he continued his union involvement and was a driving force behind the establishment of the Association of German Post Assistants on June 6, 1890 in Berlin. The Association of German Post Assistants was the first union of postal workers. The Deutsche Postverband (DPV) and today's successor union of the DPV, the DPV communications union (DPVKOM) developed from it.

In addition, Grothe founded the civil servants' housing associations in Ruhrort (1903) and Duisburg (1905), and the construction of the Wedau (1913) and Bissingheim settlements was largely his work. "He was a great son of Duisburg, he successfully fought the housing shortage in our city for almost 40 years," he was recognized in a publication from 1963.

In 1935 he was made an honorary member of the Institute for Cooperative Studies at the University of Frankfurt , and in 1936 he was made an honorary citizen of RWTH Aachen University . A street name in Duisburg still reminds of him today.

literature

Kurt Sons: Hermann Grothe. From post assistant of the Imperial German Reichspost to visionary of housing cooperative housing in Germany , Duisburg: Eigenverlag o. J. [2008] review

Web link

Reference to the book by Sons with portrait photo of Grothes

proof

  1. ↑ Festschrift 125 years DPVKOM , Bonn, June 2015, pp. 7–9. Retrieved online June 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ The official housing association was the predecessor of the housing cooperative Duisburg-Süd eG, see http://www.wogedu.de/index.php?id=77
  3. ↑ Hans Homann in the Duisburger Heimatkalender 1963, p. 97, quoted from Sons p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Grothe, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German post office worker and developer of cooperative construction
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1940
Place of death gain