Johannes Behre

Johannes Behre (born May 28, 1897 in Hamburg , † May 8, 1960 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Johannes Behre attended a primary school and from 1911 did an apprenticeship as a clerk . Also in 1911 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the Central Association of Employees (ZdA). He was Zolldeklarant in Hamburg until the First World War in 1916 drafted was. In 1918 he joined the SPD and became a co-founder and co-editor of the magazine “Junge Menschen”. From 1921 to 1926 Behre worked in agriculture and in 1924 also joined the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In 1926 he moved to Berlin and became a dock worker at BEHALA , where he was chairman of the works council in the Westhafen area from 1928 to 1930 . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 he was dismissed for his political activities. Behre was only able to find work in 1936, but in 1939 he was drafted again during World War II . Most recently he was sergeant major in the Wehrmacht until he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in April 1945 .

After the war, Behre returned to Berlin in November 1945 and worked again for BEHALA. He initially joined the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), but when the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) was founded in May 1948, he moved there. In the Berlin election in 1948 he was elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . In 1950, Behre was district manager of the union for public services, transport and traffic (ÖTV), today ver.di, in Berlin until his death . He suffered a heart attack at the May Day demonstration in 1960 and died a week later.

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. 66-67 (331 pages).

Web links

• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Archive of Social Democracy - Biography