Martin Kannegiesser
Martin Kannegiesser (born November 10, 1941 in Posen , then in Reichsgau Wartheland , now Poland ) is a German association official and entrepreneur . He is honorary president of the total metal employers 'association and was previously negotiator of the metal employers' association in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Kannegiesser is the owner of the medium-sized mechanical engineering company Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH . Until 1992 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the federal board of the CDU SME Association .
biography
Martin Kannegiesser was born on November 10, 1941 as the son of Herbert Kannegiesser and his wife Irma in Posen in what was then Reichsgau Wartheland. His father was an engineer at the Posen-Kreising plant (today Krzesiny) of Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau GmbH during the National Socialist era . After fleeing from the Russian army, the family ended up in East Westphalia-Lippe . In 1948 Herbert Kannegiesser founded a machine factory in Vlotho .
Martin Kannegiesser passed the Abitur at the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Bad Oeynhausen and then studied business administration and economics at the University of Cologne . In addition to his studies, he was responsible for sales promotion, advertising, trade fair business and overseeing foreign representations in his father's company . In 1965 he completed his studies with a degree in business administration and in 1966 became sales manager in his parents' company. In 1968 he took over the management from his sick father and, after his death in 1974, succeeded him as the owner. In 2014, 100 percent of the Kannegiesser company was transferred to a family foundation, and Martin Kannegiesser will initially remain the company's managing director.
Kannegiesser is married and has one daughter.
Association political activity
In 1968 Kannegiesser began to work in party and association politics. Since 1974 he has been a member of the CDU's SME Association.
- 1975 Chairman of the Herford District Metal Employers' Association
- 1983 Chairman of the Herford employers' association
- 1988 Chairman of the vocational training center in the Herford district
- 1994 negotiator for the Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1996 chairman of this association
In 1997, Kannegiesser was elected Vice President of the Gesamtmetall employers' association. In this role he succeeded in negotiating with the trade unions in spring 2000 to prevent strikes. This success earned him great recognition in the employers' camp. On September 8, 2000 he succeeded Werner Stumpfe as President of Gesamtmetall.
In 2003, Kannegiesser got into tough collective bargaining disputes with IG Metall under the leadership of Klaus Zwickel , which led to a strike in the metal industry in the new federal states in June 2003 . In defending against the demand for the introduction of a 35-hour week according to the collective agreement in the new federal states, Kannegiesser achieved a great success against the unions in 2003.
Kannegiesser described the collective agreement with which Gesamtmetall and IG Metall negotiate wages and working conditions for the entire industry as indispensable, but wanted to "open up" it in order to give companies the opportunity to "supplement it sensibly" (Kannegiesser). The aim is to compensate for differences within the entire industry and to be able to react to “special business situations”. “Within certain bandwidths” (Kannegiesser), company management and works councils should be able to decide for themselves how they wanted to regulate, for example, “working hours and allocated pay”. The trade unions described this objective as “holes in the collective agreement” and “operationalization” and rejected it. In March 2004, Kannegiesser achieved his goal in negotiations with IG Metall: the opening of the area-wide collective bargaining agreement with company-related supplementary collective bargaining agreements with which collective bargaining standards can be deviated from (“Pforzheim Agreement”). After the first experiences with the practice of this agreement, Kannegießer spoke positively to the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the area collective agreement, which he described as a “model for the future”.
Since September 24, 2010, Kannegiesser has been the President of the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-Based Industries , CEEMET. In 2012, Kannegiesser was replaced as President of Gesamtmetall by Rainer Dulger .
Kannegiesser is one of the main initiators and curator of the New Social Market Economy initiative financed by the employers' association Gesamtmetall .
Awards
In 1989, Martin Kannegiesser was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his work as chairman of the vocational training center in the Herford district . In 2001 he received the Cross of Merit, 1st Class, and in 2010 the Great Cross of Merit for "his strong commitment to social partnership in our society" (so the laudation).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography Martin Kannegiesser ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Neue Westfälische: Kannegiesser brings companies into family foundation
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 20, 2006.
- ↑ New President of CEEMET: Martin Kannegiesser ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , European Movement Germany
Web links
- Martin Kannegiesser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kannegiesser, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, President of the employers' association Gesamtmetall |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |