Karl Richardt

Karl Richardt (born October 17, 1904 in Ottenhausen , Weißensee district , † April 30, 1970 ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ). He was chairman of the central board of the Post and Telecommunications Industry Union.

Life

Richart, the son of a gardener, attended elementary school and worked as a worker. From 1921 to 1928 he was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers' Union of Germany . From 1928 he was employed by the Reichspost in Erfurt . In the same year he moved to the General Association of Public Enterprises and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was dismissed. From 1938 to 1945 he was employed by the precision engineering works in Erfurt. Here he was doing illegal work.

In 1945 Richardt rejoined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

Richardt joined the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB) in 1945 and was an employee of the FDGB state board of Thuringia from November 1945 . He was actively involved in the establishment of the Thuringian regional association of the IG Post and Telecommunications Industry and was its chairman from 1946 to October 1951. In 1951/52 he attended a course at the university of the trade unions in Bernau near Berlin . From the end of 1952 he was department head and member of the secretariat of the central board of IG Post and Telecommunications. From 1953/54 to 1955 he acted as chairman of the central board of IG Post and Telecommunications. From 1955 to 1967 he was an employee of the federal executive committee of the FDGB and of the union's own publishing house Tribüne .

literature

• Andreas Herbst : Richardt, Karl . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .