Johannes Albers

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Johannes Albers (born March 8, 1890 in Munich-Gladbach ; † March 8, 1963 in Cologne ) was a German politician ( German Center Party , CDU ).

Life and work

Albers was a typesetter by profession. Since 1919 he was union secretary at the Christian unions in Cologne. After the unions were broken up, he worked as a social security employee until 1944. As a member of the Cologne Circle and through his contacts to Bernhard Letterhaus , Albers was involved in the Catholic resistance against National Socialism . In custody since October 1944, he was sentenced by the People's Court in April 1945 to three years in prison for high treason. After the Second World War , he helped found the DGB .

politics

In the Weimar Republic , Albers belonged to the center , which he represented on the Cologne city council from 1924 to 1933. In 1933 he was one of Cologne's city councilors who resigned from their mandate. Unlike some of his colleagues in the Center, he did not try to eke out a political and miserable existence for a short time. During the National Socialist era, Albers belonged to the resistance group around the Ketteler House in Cologne. From the mid-30s, members of the Catholic labor movement, Christian trade unionists and former central politicians met there. There were connections to the trade unionists of July 20, especially to Jakob Kaiser , and to the Kreisau Circle through Father Alfred Delp . In 1945 he took part in the founding of the Cologne CDU , of which he became the local and district chairman and for which he also belonged to the city council (until 1948). He was also deputy chairman of the CDU regional association for the Rhineland . In October 1946 he took over the management of the program commission of the Rhenish CDU together with the banker Robert Pferdmenges . Albers was a leading representative of the trade union wing of the CDU and co-founder of the CDU social committees , of which he was federal chairman from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1958 to 1963.

From 1946 to 1950 Albers was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1949 to 1957 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1949/50 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for reconstruction and housing. Since January 31, 1951 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

The Christian Social Policy Foundation named the Johannes-Albers-Bildungsforum gGmbH, founded in October 2016, after the social politician. For the institution of political youth and adult education, his political heritage is an impetus for his own educational work, in which one can a. deals with socio-political issues from the employee's perspective.

literature

  • Ludwig Rosenberg , Bernhard Tacke : The way to the unified union . Edited by the DGB Federal Board. Printing: satz + druck gmbh, Düsseldorf 1977
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 9-10.
  • Vera Bücker: The Cologne Circle and its conception for a Germany after Hitler , in Historisch-Politische-Mitteilungen 2 (1995), pp. 49-82.
  • Winfried Herbers: The Loss of Hegemony. The Cologne CDU 1945/46 - 1964 (Düsseldorf: Research and Sources on Contemporary History, Vol. 42, 2003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Herbers: Johannes Albers. In: Günther Buch et al. (Ed.), Christian Democrats against Hitler (Freiburg: Herder, 2004), p. 72, ISBN 3-451-20805-9
  2. ↑ Stefan Noethen: Christian Socialism in the Hour of Reorganization 1945. In: Geschichte im Westen , 11 (1996), pp. 48–71.
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich-Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1963
Place of death Cologne