Michael Rott

Michael Rott (born March 14, 1898 in Bonn ; † April 19, 1947 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and trade union official.

Life

Rott learned the bakery trade and from 1919 was organized in the Association of Food and Beverage Industrial Workers . From 1920 he was a full-time trade union secretary for the association. From 1921 he switched to the railway workers' union (GdE). For this Christian trade union , which should not be confused with the later GdED and also not with the Austrian GdE , he worked as a trade union secretary in the Rhine-Main area until mid-1933. At the same time, Rott was a member of the board of the regional civil servants' association in Westphalia and the Rhineland as the civil servant secretary.

In connection with the dissolution of the Christian trade unions after the National Socialists came to power, Rott was dismissed in mid-1933. He refused to join the NSDAP . Even if Rott apparently did not take an active role in the resistance against the Nazi regime, he maintained connections to Jakob Kaiser and the circle around Wilhelm Leuschner . According to his own statements, he worked closely with Johannes Albers and Andreas Hermes during this time .

After the end of the Second World War, Rott took an active part in the union and political rebuilding in Bonn. He was a founding member of the CDU . From August to June 1946, Rott was second chairman of the Democratic Union of Bonn. From March 1946 he became a member of the Zone Committee of the Unions in the British Zone of Occupation . From July 1946 to April 1947 he took on several union functions at the regional level; Among other things, he was the second chairman of the public services, transport and traffic union (ÖTV) in two districts of the North Rhine-Province .

In addition, Rott was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in the second term from December 19, 1946 until his death . One day before the first state election , he died in a traffic accident in which the ÖTV union officials Franz Sinzig and Walter Benninghaus were also killed.

literature

• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 276-277, 377, 631-632 (short biography).

Web links

• Michael Rott at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia