Josef Schilling

This article deals with the trade unionist Josef Schilling. For other people see Joseph Schilling .

Josef Schilling (born February 21, 1892 in Brilon ; † June 6, 1957 in Munich ) was a German builder and trade unionist.

After attending elementary and vocational school, Schilling learned the trade of building craftsman and received technical training. After a seven-year phase in military and war service, he worked full-time in the Christian trade unions from 1920 , while on the side he received further training, now in the areas of administrative and social law. In 1925 he became district manager of the Christian trade union in Bavaria, which he held until his dismissal in 1933. In 1935 he started as a self-employed sales representative, in 1942 he switched to the air defense medical service . In 1945 he was a co-founder of the Bavarian Trade Union Federation, which became the Bavarian State District of the DGB the following year . In 1946 Schilling became deputy director and in 1951 director of the labor office in Munich. In 1946 he was a member of the advisory state committee, the pre-parliament. At the end of 1947 he was appointed to the newly founded Bavarian Senate , in which he represented the trade union group until his death.

Web links

• Josef Schilling in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History