Ludwig Rosenberg

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Ludwig Rosenberg (1975)

Ludwig Rosenberg (born June 29, 1903 in Charlottenburg , † October 23, 1977 in Düsseldorf ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

The son of a Jewish cloth merchant family grew up in a middle-class family and had a higher education. His life was linked to the labor movement at an early stage. At the age of eighteen, Ludwig Rosenberg joined the Republican Youth Association . At the age of twenty he became a member of the SPD and was active in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In 1925 he also became a member of the white-collar union. From 1928 he worked as a full-time functionary in the trade union federation of employees (GdA). In 1933, Rosenberg fled to London from the National Socialists. There he made contact with prominent trade union representatives in exile, such as the founder of the national group of German trade unionists in Great Britain, Hans Gottfurcht . From 1941 Rosenberg worked in the International Department of the British Foreign Office.

After his return from emigration, he was immediately available for union rebuilding. In his speeches at the federal congresses of the DGB in 1956 and 1959, as head of the DGB's economics department, he set the course for economic policy. He advocated recognition of the market economy and market regulation with the help of an active economic policy. At the international level, he contributed his expertise to the Economic and Social Committee of the European Community . He was president of this committee (1960–1962) until he was elected DGB chairman in 1962.

Rosenberg has been a member of the federal executive committee since the DGB was founded in 1949. On October 27, 1962, an employee took over the office of chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation for the first time. On May 21, 1969, he was replaced by Heinz Oskar Vetter. From 1963 until his retirement in 1969 he was also Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).

Honors

In 1963 Rosenberg was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1976 he received the Freiherr vom Stein Prize . In Berlin-Charlottenburg , since June 29, 2003, the 100th birthday of Ludwig Rosenberg, a stainless steel plaque on the house at Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 103 has been commemorating him. In Hamburg-Bergedorf, the Ludwig-Rosenberg-Ring is named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A walk through the neighborhood on September 11th, 2004 from Stuttgarter Platz to Charlottenburg Palace. In: Website of the city of Berlin
  2. ↑ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life. Munich, Saur 1980, p. 612.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Rosenberg memorial plaque. In: Website of the city of Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, chairman of the DGB
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1977
Place of death Dusseldorf