Karl Hauenschild

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Karl Hauenschild (born August 30, 1920 in Hanover , † February 28, 2006 in Hemmingen ) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD .

Life

Hauenschild did an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940. After his release from American captivity in 1945, he returned to Hanover and joined the SPD and the union there. In 1948 he prepared the founding congress of the chemical-paper-ceramic union in the British and American occupation zones. In 1969 he was elected federal chairman of IG Chemie as the successor to Wilhelm Gefeller . He was considered a representative of the concept of " social partnership ". At the Hamburg DGB Congress in 1975 he spoke out against the governmental investment control demanded by left-wing trade unionists . After the European elections in 1979 , he was a member of the 1st European Parliament for a few months until January 1980,  where he worked on the Agriculture Committee.

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  1. F. Deppe et al. a .: History of the German trade union movement . 2nd edition Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1978, p. 464
  2. ^ Trialogue , Bulletin of the Trilateral Commission, accessed on November 28, 2014