Max Traeger

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Max Heinrich Johannes Traeger (born June 9, 1887 in Hamburg , † January 10, 1960 in Hamburg) was a German trade unionist . He was a founding member and first chairman of the Education and Science Union .

Life

During the Weimar Republic, Traeger was a teacher and headmaster at the Borgesch School in Hamburg. From 1927 to 1933 he was a member of the Hamburg Guarantee, first in the faction of the German Democratic Party, from 1930 onwards in the faction of the German State Party . When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was deposed and, according to the GEW, subjected to a professional ban . The alleged professional ban during the Nazi regime and his role in the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB), which he joined on May 1, 1933, is controversial today . Through his work as a functionary in the NSLB, to which he belonged until its dissolution, he is viewed from a historical point of view as burdened with NSL.

After the Second World War he became an active member of the FDP and in 1945 senior senate councilor in the management of school welfare: he helped to provide school children with food and clothing, organized emergency housing for teachers and built rest homes on the North and Baltic Seas.

In the post-war years, as chairman of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic Schools and Education System, he played a leading role in founding the Education and Science Union (GEW) and helped to transfer it to the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). He was then the first chairman of the GEW from 1947 to 1952. After Bernhard Plewe succeeded him in office for six years , he headed the GEW from 1958 until his death in 1960.

Honors and nominations

Max Traeger was the holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit . A GEW foundation and a primary school in Hamburg were named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Erkelenz : Ten Years of the German Republic , 1928, p. 566 ( excerpt online )
  2. ↑ a b Obituaries . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 10 . Hamburg January 13, 1960, p. 5 ( Abendblatt.de ( memento of October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the web archive [PDF]).
  3. ↑ see information from the GND authority file under DNB, catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Hans-Peter de Lorent : Albert Mansfeld: "simple, but pedantically correct" (part 1) . In: hlz - magazine of the GEW Hamburg . No. 7–8 , 2008, pp. 46–50 ( hlz.gew.he-hosting.de [PDF]). hlz.gew.he-hosting.de ( Memento from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Micha Brumlik , Benjamin Ortmeyer : Max Traeger - no role model: Person, function and action in the NS teacher association and the history of the GEW. Beltz publishing group, Weinheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3770-8
  6. ↑ Guido Sprügel: Follower or not? In the GEW there is a dispute about Max Traeger, the namesake of the union's own foundation, and his behavior during the Nazi era. Jürgen Amendt: A turning point. About the Max Traeger debate. Lena Tietgen: Controversy hardly noticed in the media. Lena Tietgen: Max Traeger Foundation. All articles in Neues Deutschland , March 31/1. April 2018, p. 24.
  7. ↑ Who was actually Max-Traeger? Max-Traeger-Schule, accessed on October 26, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Max Traeger Foundation. gew.de , archived from the original on November 9, 2014 ; Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Werner Grevecke: The way of the GEW in the DGB after 1945 - most important stages. Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Traeger, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traeger, Max Heinrich Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1960
Place of death Hamburg