Joachim Gragt

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Joachim Gragt (born April 9, 1920 in Hamburg ; † October 9, 1973 ibid) was a German trade union official .

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Joachim Gragt's father was a wealthy, medium-sized entrepreneur and scrap dealer. Gragt graduated from secondary school and, from 1937, commercial training in a travel agency in his hometown. During the time of National Socialism , Grager, who was considered independent and non-conformist, was able to stay away from the influence of National Socialist youth groups. He joined the Bündische Jugend in 1935 and then worked underground for the banned SPD . After the Reichskristallnacht (Reichskristallnacht) he was arrested for preparing for high treason and for violating the treachery law . From November 1938 he spent six months in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison for these reasons . He then worked as a commercial clerk in his father's company. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service in 1940 and later assigned to a probation unit with which he fought partisans in Yugoslavia and Russia.

After the end of the war, Grübers led a vaudeville troupe. He then worked as an inspector in an insurance depot and a social department of a committee of former Polish prisoners. In March 1946 he switched to the public service and worked for the youth and later for the economic authorities in Hamburg-Altona . Most recently he headed the economic and regulatory office in Altona. When he switched to the public service, Gragger joined the Hamburg organization of the komba union , which he headed from 1955. From 1961 he also acted as chairman of the Hamburg regional group of the DBB . In order to be able to carry out this task, the Hamburg Senate took a leave of absence in 1967. From then on, the DBB paid his salary as compensation for the lost public-sector remuneration.

Gragt was seen as a militant trade unionist who spoke sharply and clearly in public. After the Hamburg Senate had passed the “ East Travel Decree” in 1964, which forbade publicly employed people to travel to the GDR and other Eastern Bloc countries , Gragger, who saw this as incompatible with the legally guaranteed freedom of movement, vigorously opposed it. With great personal commitment he advocated constitutional regulations in staff representation law and in 1972 called provisions in which the responsibility of the executive was not clearly recognizable, a "bastard of co-determination". 1972 was one of the founding members of the German-Polish Society Hamburg .

Gragt, who had serious health problems from 1966 and for this reason repeatedly went to the cure, but without improvement, died in October 1973 in his hometown.

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SURNAME GrAGES, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1973
Place of death Hamburg