Hermann Schlimme (politician)
Hermann Schlimme (born September 14, 1882 in Langensalza , † November 10, 1955 in East Berlin ) was a German politician . He was a co-founder of the FDGB and sat on its federal board from 1952.
Life
Schlimme was born into a working class family. After attending elementary school , he went on a hike in 1896 and learned to be a turner by 1903. During this time he first joined the German Woodworkers' Association in 1899 . From 1904 to 1907 Schlimme worked as a trade laborer. In 1906 he joined the German Transport Workers' Association and the SPD. In 1907 Schlimme got a job as an office clerk and bookkeeper, which he held until 1911. During this time he was already volunteering for the party and trade union. In 1911, Schlimme became the full-time district manager of the German Transport Workers' Association in Halle . He carried out this activity until 1921. It was interrupted from 1915 to 1918 by participating in the First World War.
In the course of the turmoil at the end of the war, Schlimme became a member of the USPD in 1918 , but after a short time he rejoined the SPD. In 1920 he took an active part as a trade unionist in the suppression of the Kapp putsch in Berlin. In 1922 and 1923 Schlimme graduated from the Technical School for Administration in Berlin. After his studies he became the personal secretary of Theodor Leipart , the then chairman of the ADGB. In addition, he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council . As an employee of Leipart, who was also the editor of the journal Die Arbeit , Schlimme also published articles in this trade union journal . In 1931 he was promoted to secretary on the ADGB federal executive board, where he remained until the unions were dissolved in 1933.
After the ban, Schlimme was initially a member of the Reich leadership for the reconstruction of free trade unions, but in May 1933 he was temporarily detained. After his release, he earned his living as a grocer and bookseller for specialist literature. At the same time, until he was arrested again on January 20, 1937, he took over the illegal activity as a representative of the board of directors of the International Trade Union Confederation . After his arrest, Schlimme was sentenced to three years in prison on December 8, 1937 by the Berlin Higher Regional Court for preparing for high treason . He served this sentence until 1940 in the Brandenburg-Görden and Amberg penitentiaries. After his release, he worked as an accountant in the Karl Geyer laboratory factory in Berlin until the end of the war. Schlimme was planned by the unionists among the conspirators in the attack on July 20, 1944 in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet as head of the personnel issues and organization department in a unified union in the event of a successful coup.
After the end of the Second World War, Hermann Schlimme was one of the few well-known Social Democrats who had survived and were immediately available in the Soviet occupation zone. He was one of the 14 members of the central committee of the SPD , which was constituted on June 15, 1945 in Berlin. Shortly afterwards, on June 17, 1945, the Preparatory Trade Union Committee for Greater Berlin, which was constituted on June 13, 1945, published the call for the formation of free trade unions. As a representative of the former free trade unions, Schlimme was one of the signatories of the appeal. In 1946 he was one of the participants in the founding party congress of the SED . At the same time Schlimme became the second chairman of the FDGB board for Greater Berlin, which he remained until 1951. In this function and later until his death he was a member of the FDGB federal executive committee and the party executive committee, later the central committee of the SED. Initially a member of the city council of Greater Berlin from 1946 to 1948, Schlimme was a member of the German People's Council in 1948, and later of the People's Chamber until his death. There he represented the FDGB.
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His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .
Schlimmes son Hermann Schlimme junior was for many years General Director of VEB Kombinat Deutrans .
Award
- June 15, 1953 Karl Marx Order
- May 6, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
Honors
The following institutions were named after Hermann Schlimme:
- VEB machine tool factory Hermann Schlimme , Berlin-Treptow , Bouchéstrasse
- VEB Steremat Hermann Schlimme , Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Storkower Strasse
- Headquarters of the FDGB district executive committee in Berlin ( Hermann-Schlimme-Haus ), Berlin-Mitte , Wallstrasse
- 13. Polytechnische Oberschule , Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Syringenweg
- Holiday camp of the VEB foundry and mechanical engineering Berlin-Lichtenberg, Ortkrug
- FDGB holiday home, Saalburg
literature
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 233 (331 pages).
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Andreas Herbst: Schlimme (sen.), Hermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Schlimme in the catalog of the German National Library
- The urn graves in the curtain wall: R – Z. In: Sozialistenfriedhof.de , Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde (with an entry for the bad)
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany, June 16, 1953
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bad, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD, USPD, SED), MdV, co-founder of the FDGB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langensalza |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1955 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |