Johannes Sassenbach

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Johannes Sassenbach

Johannes Sassenbach (born October 12, 1866 in Breun / Rhineland ; † November 19, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German saddlery journeyman , trade union leader , social attaché of the German Empire in Rome , author and publisher .

Life

Sassenbach, who was born in the Bergisches Land , only attended a two-class dwarf school, but continued to educate himself through self-study. He was an apprentice saddler, journeyman saddler and craftsman. The years of traveling as a saddlery journeyman, which took him to southern France and Italy, aroused his social commitment as well as his interest in other countries, their cultures and languages. From 1891 to 1895 he was a board member of the Berlin Sattler Cooperative. In 1897 he co-founded the first Berlin cabaret. From June 1902 to July 1919 he was a member of the General Commission of the German Trade Unions .

From January 1906 to May 1915 he was a city ​​councilor in Berlin . Then he was elected to the first social democratic (unpaid) city council in Berlin and in all of Prussia, which he remained until September 1920.

From April 1906 to August 1921 he was secretary of the International Union of Saddlers and Related Professionals . From July 1919 to June 1923 he was an assessor on the board of the General German Trade Union Federation .

From January 1920 to January 1923 he was chairman of the Volkshochschule Groß-Berlin .

In January 1923 he moved to Amsterdam , where he served from February 1923 to 1927 as secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). From 1927 to January 1931 he was General Secretary of the ITUC. In May 1931 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he was arrested on May 7, 1934 for "acts of public defiance". This was followed by charges of “suspicion in preparation for high treason” with subsequent pre-trial detention from May 15, 1934.

His estate is managed by the Johannes Sassenbach Gesellschaft e. V. managed.

literature

  • Johann Sassenbach . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 260-261.
  • Sassenbach, Johann . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. Continued by Eugen Kuri . Second volume. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 1062
  • Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 21f
  • Gerhard Beier : Sassenbach, Johann . In: Manfred Asendorf / Rolf von Bockel (ed.): Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997 ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 543-544
  • Daniela Münkel :  Sassenbach, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 442 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jacques Schwarz, Johann Sassenbach (1866 - 1940) , in: Günter Benser and Michael Schneider (eds.), Preserve - Spread - Enlighten: Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking workers' movement , Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 2009, p. 282 –286 ( PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME Sassenbach, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sassenbach, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Breun , Rhineland, Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1940
Place of death Frankfurt am Main , Germany