Marius Tofte

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Marius Tofte (born December 20, 1894 in Flensburg , † June 19, 1969 in Preetz ) was a German trade unionist .

Life

Marius Tofte completed an apprenticeship as a gardener. After returning as a soldier from the First World War , he first joined the KPD and then switched to the SPD . In 1923 Tofte took over the management of the German Agricultural Workers' Association in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . In the Weimar Republic , the economic and legal situation of agricultural workers had not improved significantly compared to the situation in the German Empire : In Prussian Schleswig-Holstein, despite a technical modernization of agriculture, there were still manor districts with patriarchal structures. Nevertheless, Tofte had significant successes in the conclusion of collective agreements and in building housing for the families of the farm workers. During his activity as a union district leader, the manor districts were dissolved from 1928 onwards.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists and the prohibition of trade unions Marius Tofte was 1933 and 1934 several times by the Gestapo arrested and interned in the concentration camp Glückstadt. After his release due to illness, the couple Marius and Anna Tofte ran a vegetable stand at the weekly market in Kiel , which was held on the parade ground . Immediately after the end of the Second World War , Tofte began building the trade union movement in rural areas in 1945. Until 1965 he was chairman of the horticulture, agriculture and forestry union in the Nordmark district. In this capacity, Tofte was a member of the general assembly of the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Agriculture . In the Schleswig-Holstein regional association of the SPD, Tofte was one of the supporters of the Godesberg program decided on November 15, 1959 .

The Tofte couple lived on Langenbeckstrasse in the Schreventeich district of Kiel .

publication

  • Farm workers through the ages. In: farmers and farm workers. Schaper, Hanover 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Rehbein : The life of a farm worker. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1911.
personal data
SURNAME Tofte, Marius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1969
Place of death Preetz