Horst Grunenberg (politician)

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Horst Grunenberg (born November 19, 1928 in Schmolsin , Pomerania, † December 14, 2006 in Bremerhaven ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1972 to 1990 he was a directly elected member of the Bundestag constituency of Bremen-Nord - Bremerhaven .

biography

Grunenberg was forced to do military service as a student at a secondary school in 1945 and was briefly imprisoned. In 1945/46 he worked in a carpentry shop. From 1946 he completed an apprenticeship as a butcher and finished it in 1948 with the journeyman's examination. In 1948/49 he was employed in coal mining. From 1950 to 1954 he worked as a fish filler and from 1955 as an electric welder in Bremerhaven.

As a shop steward of IG Metall at the Seebeck shipyard , he campaigned in 1958 to support the manifesto of the 18 Göttingen scientists and the committee on the fight against atomic death . From 1959 to 1975 he was a member of the works council . From 1971 he was released from work as a wage expert for the works council. From 1965 to 1973 he was the head of the IG Metall shop steward at the Seebeck shipyard. From 1973 he was deputy chairman of the SPD operating group Seebeckwerft. From 1970 to 1973 he was deputy chairman of the SPD company organization in Bremerhaven and a member of the state board of the AfA. From 1971 to 1973 he was chairman of the SPD local association Alt-Lehe and a member of the SPD sub-district executive committee in Bremerhaven.

Grunenberg belonged to the Seeheimer Kreis of the SPD and was for a long time a member of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag, in which he campaigned for an export-oriented shipping industry in order to promote the domestic shipyards. Another focus of his political work was regional funding. His initiative led to the establishment of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven.

From 1985 he was a member of the executive committee of the German Fisheries Association. He was also a member of the Marine Economy Commission at the Federal Ministry of Economics. He received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Grunenberg was married and had three children.

literature

  • Handbook of the German Bundestag 11th electoral term

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Müller: Works council work at Seebeckwerft 1948–1961 ( Memento from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Homepage of the city of Bremerhaven )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bremerhaven.de
  3. ↑ Why Bremerhaven? , AWI homepage, accessed on January 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Grunenberg, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmolsin , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2006
Place of death Bremerhaven