Board of Trustees "Emergency of Democracy"

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The board of trustees "Emergency of Democracy" was an "association of representatives of students , science, culture, trade unions and churches", which opposed the plans planned in the Federal Republic since the mid / late 1950s and until 1968 (gradually ) passed - initially 'simple', then also constitution-amending - emergency laws :

Congress 1966 in Frankfurt am Main

“The board of trustees 'Emergency of Democracy', founded in August 1966, had its seat in the house of IG Metall in Frankfurt, which supported the board of trustees financially [...]. The congress [... which the Board of Trustees [organized] on October 30, 1966 [...] was the culmination and end point of the unified protest movement by students, academics and trade unionists [against the emergency laws]. "

The closing speech at the congress was given by the legal scholar Helmut Ridder , who, among other things , had become known for an expert opinion on the constitutional position of the unions . Ridder was also chairman of the working committee of the board of trustees “Emergency of Democracy” .

Demonstration in Bonn 1968

Demonstration on May 11, 1968 as part of a star march on the then capital Bonn against the planned emergency laws

"The Kuratorium 'Emergency of Democracy' and the 'Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament' protest [on May 11, 1968 as part of a star march in Bonn] against the planned emergency laws of the grand coalition."

Secretary: Helmut Schauer (SDS / IG Metall)

The secretary of the board of trustees was Helmut Schauer ; on the website 1000dokumente.de - for which the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is responsible - states:

“The trade unions used the intellectual capacities of lawyers like Wolfgang Abendroth , Heinrich Hannover and Juergen Seifert to build up a well-founded argument against the emergency laws; and the intellectuals appreciated the trade unions as a financial and organizational force as well as an influencing factor in the SPD parliamentary group. So it was no coincidence that Helmut Schauer, the chairman of the SDS and secretary of the 'Emergency of Democracy' board of trustees, finally became an employee of IG Metall in 1966, which provided him with office space and assistants for the campaign against the emergency laws. "

Historical classification

The board of trustees was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition at the time.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bpb.de/politik/verbindungen-aktuell/269874/notstandsgesetze (last accessed on April 7, 2020 at 12:24 a.m.).
  2. ↑ Norm data: GND 1041540620 ; VIAF: 305177394 ; see. wikidata: Q89653819 .
  3. ↑ Michael Schneider, The conflict about the emergency laws , in: trade union monthly books 8/1986, 482 - 494 (490).
  4. ↑ On the constitutional position of the trade unions in the welfare state according to the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany . Legal opinion on the question of the constitutionality of the judgment of the Federal Labor Court of October 31, 1958 [see 1 (guiding principles) and 2 (full text)], G. Fischer: Stuttgart, 1960 (cf. http://d-nb.info/454032625 ).
  5. ^ "Speech by Helmut Ridders at the final rally of the 'Emergency of Democracy' congress in 1966 in Frankfurt aM" < Joachim Perels , Against the transformation of power into law . On the death of Helmut Ridder (1919–2007), in: Kritische Justiz 2007, 196 - 198 ( https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0023-4834-2007-2-196/wider-die-umwandlung -von-macht-in-right-to-death-von-helmut-ridder-1919-2007-volume-40-2007-booklet-2 ) [196]>.
  6. ^ "As chairman of the working committee of the 'Kuratorium Notstand der Demokratie', Prof. Dr. Helmut Ridder gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in Bonn on October 24, 1967, on the current status of the fight against emergency legislation, [...] ”. ( Sheets for German and international politics < https://www.blaetter.de/sites/default/files/downloads/zurueck/zurueckgeblaettert_200711_1.pdf >, p. 1139).
  7. ↑ https://www.hdg.de/lemo/haben/objekt/druckgut-aufruf-gegen-notstandsgesetze.html (last accessed on April 7, 2020; 0:05). See wikidata on the star march : Q89749152 .
  8. ↑ https://www.1000dokumente.de/index.html?c=dokument_de&dokument=0018_not&object=context&l=de (last accessed on April 7, 2020 at 12:14 a.m.).
  9. ↑ “Over 40,000 people set out on a star march to demonstrate against the planned emergency laws. The board of trustees called for the 'Emergency of Democracy' - an association of representatives of students, science, culture, trade unions and churches. The protest against the emergency laws in the spring of 1968 became the unifying bond between the student movement and the trade unions and was part of the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO). ( https://www.bpb.de/politik/grund-aktuell/269874/notstandsgesetze [last accessed on April 7th, 2020; 9:03 am]) "
  10. ↑ ZDB entry: https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/974841-6 .