Martin Wolf (Works Council)

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Martin Wolf (born April 3, 1917 in the Ore Mountains ; † October 26, 2010 ) was a German works council. From 1957 until his retirement in 1981, he was Bertelsmann General Works Council Chairman and from 1972 to 1981 Group Works Council Chairman of Bertelsmann AG .

Life

Wolf worked as a school principal in Halle (Saale) before he moved with his family from the GDR to the Federal Republic in 1954 and settled in Gütersloh . There he joined Bertelsmann in 1955, where he worked in the Hollerith department, which was responsible for electronic data entry and the creation and dispatch of invoices. In March 1957, his colleagues suggested him as a works council and he was immediately elected chairman. At his instigation, the works councils of the individual Bertelsmann group subsidiaries elected a general works council for the first time in April 1957 and Wolf took over the chairmanship. After founding Bertelsmann AG in 1972, he became the first group works council chairman and was and in this function a member of the company's supervisory board.

He gave numerous impulses for its development. In 1960, on his initiative, BKK C. Bertelsmann Verlag was founded for the administration and other commercial operations of Bertelsmann. He was also involved in founding the vocational college and in introducing profit sharing for employees. As a close confidante of Reinhard Mohn , he laid the foundations of the corporate culture that is still alive today .

In 1972 he was honored with the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment . In 1979, Wolf expressed himself critical of the overloading of the workforce due to the fact that Bertelsmann did not increase its workforce accordingly, despite increased expansion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former general and group works council chairman Martin Wolf is dead. , Bertelsmann AG press release
  2. ↑ History of Bertelsmann BKK ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.bertelsmann-bkk.de
  3. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  4. ↑ Too much size, reason to fear? in: Der Spiegel 7/1981 of February 9, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German works council
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2010