Manfred Schell (union official)

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Manfred Schell (born February 12, 1943 in Aachen ) is a former German trade union official and politician ( CDU ). From 1989 to May 2008 he was federal chairman of the Union of German Locomotive Drivers (GDL), from 1989 to May 2010 he was also President of the Autonomous Engine Drivers' Unions of Europe. From July 1993 to November 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Career in railway operations

The son of a locomotive driver began training as a machine fitter in a private company on April 1, 1957 . On April 1, 1958, he moved to what was then the Deutsche Bundesbahn , where he was taken over on April 1, 1960. He worked as a pipe blower, cleaning the soot from the pipes of the steam locomotives, then as a stoker, and later cleaning the cattle cars. Between July 1, 1963 and December 31, 1964, he did basic military service . On August 1, 1964, he was appointed reserve engine driver candidate, and from January 1, 1965, he worked as a stoker and fitter for the Federal Railroad. After being appointed reserve locomotive driver in May 1967, positions as locomotive driver (from April 1, 1969) and senior locomotive driver (from July 1, 1971) followed. On October 1, 1978, he was promoted to chief engine driver. He has been a locomotive operations inspector since 1987, with an allowance from 1990 ( grade A 9z ). He joined as a federal civil servant in accordance with § 41 (1) Federal Civil Service Act after the age of sixty-fifth birthday in late February 2008 in the retirement .

Union work

After joining the GDL on May 1, 1970, he took over the position of secretary and deputy chairman (1972) and chairman (1973) in the Aachen local group in 1971 . On November 1st, 1973 he was appointed full-time GDL employee in Frankfurt am Main. From November 1, 1974, he headed the GDL head office in Frankfurt . On April 1, 1983, he was appointed deputy federal chairman of the GDL after the previous chairman Alois Zehnder had to resign from his position for health reasons and the three-person executive board had to be filled. In 1984, Schell was confirmed as deputy federal chairman by the general assembly of the GDL.

From May 9, 1989 Schell was federal chairman of the union. Schell was the fourteenth chairman of the organization founded in 1867 and the fifth chairman of the GDL since the end of World War II. At the unification general assembly on January 29, 1991 he was elected federal chairman of the reunited GDL. Since 1989 he has been President of the Autonomous Train Drivers 'Unions of Europe, an association of train drivers' unions from 16 European countries. From 1981 to 2008 he was also a member of the federal board of the DBB Beamtenbund and Tarifunion . From 1991 he also acted as its spokesman.

In January 1990, Schell founded the East GDL, the first free trade union in the GDR. According to its own information, the GDL organized around ninety percent of the locomotive drivers in what was then the GDR within nine months with around 15,000 people.

On November 24, 2000, he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his commitment to trade union and educational work.

On May 6, 2008, his previous deputy, Claus Weselsky, was elected to succeed Schell as GDL chairman . At the same time, Schell was unanimously elected Federal Honorary Chairman of the GDL by the 191 delegates. He is the second former GDL leader to hold this honorary position in post-war history.

Schell held his position as chairman of the Autonomous Engine Drivers Unions of Europe until May 22, 2010. He was succeeded by Jésus Garcia Fraile . Schell was unanimously elected honorary president of the ALE at the same congress. He is invited to all future ALE meetings and has the right to speak at these.

According to his own statements, the highlights of his time as a board member of the GDL included the German reunification, with the establishment of the GDL in a unified Germany, and the agreement of an independent collective agreement for train drivers for Deutsche Bahn.

In October 2008 he was awarded the media prize by the Association of the Foreign Press in Germany for his cooperative handling of the media in the 2007/2008 collective bargaining conflict.

Schell resigned the honorary chairmanship of the GDL in the spring after the GDL main board relieved the GDL vice chairman Sven Grünwoldt from his position on April 15, 2013 after disputes over a private loan. In 2013 he founded the Initiative for Democracy and the Rule of Law in the GDL together with other former long-term employees .

According to a newspaper report from mid-November 2014, the GDL local group in Aachen, to which Schell belongs, should decide on November 25, 2014 whether Schell's membership should be withdrawn. According to Schell, three of the four board members present at the meeting voted against his exclusion. The GDL local group Aachen contradicted this representation. On the agenda of the November 25, 2014 meeting, there was no application to terminate membership. On September 1, 2015, Schell was excluded from the GDL due to allegedly “outstanding membership fees”. A lawsuit for the GDL to pay contributions against Schell was finally dismissed in May 2016.

politics

Schell joined the CDU in 1971 and in 1972 in its CDA workers' association . Between 1981 and 1983 he was a member of the state board of the CDA Hessen. For the 1990 federal election he ran as a direct candidate for the CDU in the constituency of Halle-Altstadt. From July 22, 1993, Schell was a member of the 12th German Bundestag . He moved into parliament for Harald Schreiber , who had resigned his direct mandate on June 30, 1993 due to his Stasi past , via the state list of Saxony-Anhalt .

As the only CDU member of the Bundestag out of 558 members, he voted against the railway reform on December 2, 1993 . Besides him, only 12 MPs from the PDS and SPD refused to vote for the legislative package.

Schell's mandate ended in the 1994 federal election on November 10, 1994.

Private life

Manfred Schell has been married since 1976 and has two children.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Manfred Schell: The locomotive pulls the train . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86789-059-5 , p. 215 f.
  2. ^ Markus Feldenkirchen: Manfred, the engine driver . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 2007, p. 32-33 ( Online - July 30, 2007 ).
  3. ↑ a b GDL Magazin Ahead: An era is coming to an end . Issue No. 4, 2008, ISSN  1438-0099 , p. 8.
  4. ↑ a b Manfred Schell: The positives far outweighed it . In: ahead . No. 4, 2008, ISSN  1438-0099 , p. 3.
  5. ↑ The unpretentious vain. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 4, 2008
  6. ↑ Poltergeist Schell leaves the driver's cab . In: Die Welt , May 6, 2008
  7. ↑ Jésus Fraile is the new ALE President . In: ahead , Volume 62 (2010) Issue 6 (June), p. 18, ISSN  1438-0099 .
  8. ↑ Manfred Schell elected honorary president . In: ahead , Volume 62 (2010) Issue 6 (June), pp. 18 f., ISSN  1438-0099 .
  9. ↑ Nikolaus Doll: Mud battle with the train drivers . In: The world . April 26, 2013, ISSN  0173-8437 , p. 11 (similar version online ).
  10. ↑ Matthias Breitlinger "This labor dispute harms the GDL" . Time online , October 24, 2014.
  11. ↑ Nikolaus Doll: The GDL wants to get rid of its ex-chairman . Welt online , November 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Carsten Brönstrup: GDL boss Claus Weselsky fails when his predecessor Manfred Schell is kicked out . Der Tagesspiegel online, November 27, 2014.
  13. ^ Union of German Locomotive Drivers, Local Group Aachen (Ed.): Manfred Schell is kicked out ?! GDL local group Aachen did not vote on termination of membership . Press release from November 27, 2014.
  14. ^ Union of German Locomotive Drivers (ed.): GDL quickly excludes other former officials . Press release from August 31, 2015.
  15. ↑ Marc Oliver Ram: "Special contributions" of the GDL. (No longer available online.) In: http://rechtsanwalt-ram.com/ . May 24, 2016, archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rechtsanwalt-ram.com
  16. ↑ Schell (2009), p. 123
  17. ↑ Schell (2009), p. 143
  18. ↑ German Bundestag plenary proceedings 12/196 (PDF file, 9.5 MB), December 2, 1993, p 16986
  19. ^ German Bundestag, Verwaltung WD 3, ZI 5: List of all members of the German Bundestag (1949–1998) (PDF, 1.2 MB) pp. 187, 199, ISSN  0344-9130
  20. ↑ Schell (2009), p. 83
personal data
SURNAME Schell, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen