Otto König (trade unionist)

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Otto König (* 1945 ) is a German trade union official . He worked from 1980 to 2010 First Authorized Representative of IG Metall office Gevelsberg - Hattingen and member of the board of the industrial union.

Life

König completed his training as a telecommunications fitter at Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL) in Mannheim and during this time he joined the metal industry union. In 1970 he became chairman of the works council at Telefonbau u. Normal time in Neustadt / Wstr. In 1971 he moved from the Palatinate to the Ruhr area and worked full-time in Sprockhövel in the IG Metall education center . There he trained youth representatives, works councils and shop stewards as a pedagogical employee until 1980, and in 1980 he became the first authorized representative of IG Metall Hattingen.

This position, which was characterized by protracted labor disputes during which Hattingen alone lost more than 10,000 employees in the metal industry and unemployment threatened to rise to 20%, he also held from 2000 to 2010 in the merged Gevelsberg-Hattingen office . When the Mönninghoff machine factory in Hattingen was to be closed, he tried to secure the 791 jobs there with the company officials of IG Metall, for which purpose the "Hattinger Model" was developed with external consultants from the IPM Group around the former EvoBus managing director Wolfgang Diez. With Adi Ostertag and Hartmut Schulz, he published in 1985: "Our example could set a precedent!" The "Hattinger Model" .

In May 1983 the continued existence of Mönninghoff was secured for the first time, since January 1984 they continued to work without pay, and the company was occupied from January 31 to March 1. After the banks postponed their decision, Mönninghoff was initially to continue production until February 1984. This was followed by a state guarantee of 21 million marks. When the banks refused loan installments and the company was occupied, König hoped, with unpaid production going on, that “the BfG as a union bank” could be persuaded to pre-finance the upcoming wages, but bankruptcy proceedings opened on February 21. König announced a meeting "in a small circle" in order to get the city of Hattingen to buy up land and buildings in order to bring them into the rescue company. In fact, it brought in 2 million marks. Ultimately, however, the rescue attempt failed at Dresdner Bank . The month-long commitment to Mönninghoff was cited as the reason for König's re-election as the first representative of IG Metall, who received 112 out of 131 votes.

From autumn 1986 to the end of 1987 König was involved in the struggle to keep the Henrichshütte in Hattingen. For the first time in post-war history, there should be mass layoffs in the steel industry. The steel workers fought for over twelve months, orientated by their IG Metall and supported by the citizens' committee Hattingen muss Leben and a women's and youth initiative, first to maintain the 4,700 jobs and later to create replacement jobs. The ironworkers put the Thyssen group and politicians in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the federal government under pressure with their demonstrations, rallies, vigils, car corsairs, human chains and a village of resistance . After the decision to close down by the Thyssen AG supervisory board, the steel workers unveiled the foundation stone for the creation of an employment company . The current form of transfer companies developed from this model . The resistance of the steel workers and an entire city prevented the layoff of 2,900 people.

In the 1990s, König and the works councils, supported by Hartmut Schulz, Bernd Lauenroth and Alfons Eilers, took part in the struggle to secure mining suppliers such as Muckenhaupt GmbH in Hattingen as well as Hausherr & Söhne, Hauhinco GmbH, Turmag GmbH and G. Düsterloh GmbH in Sprockhövel , as well as the escalator manufacturer KONE in Hattingen (2005), the textile label manufacturer Avery Dennison in Sprockhövel (2009) and O&K Antriebstechnik in Hattingen (2009). The jobs in drive technology could be saved.

König was a member of the advisory board of IG Metall, an honorary member of the 36-person executive committee of IG Metall and a member of the DGB federal committee. At the Dorma company in Ennepetal , he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board.

After leaving the company in September 2010, Clarissa Bader was elected to the position of first authorized representative of the IG Metall branch in Gevelsberg-Hattingen. Today, König is co-editor of the monthly magazine Sozialismus and regularly writes articles for the forum trade unions. He works as a publicist.

Publications (selection)

  • Band of solidarity. Resistance, alternative concepts, perspectives; IG Metall administration office Gevelsberg-Hattingen 1945–2010 , VSA Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89965-541-4
  • Co-determination needs advice , status and perspectives of work-oriented advice, Graewis Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815769-0-0
  • With Richard Detje: »One is affected. We are all meant “Clean energy and unclean methods at the wind turbine manufacturer Enercon , in: Zeitschrift Sozialismus 12 (2014). ( online , PDF)
  • The steel cities have to live , in: Elke Hannack, Bernhard Jirku, Holger Menze (eds.): Unemployed people in action. Forms of action, framework conditions, cultural diversity in the past and present , VSA-Verlag, 2009, pp. 79–89.
  • With Sybille Stamm, Michael Wendl (Ed.): Erosion or Renewal? Crisis and reform of the collective agreement. VSA Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-87975-705-4
  • With Robert Laube, Egon Stratmann: The end of the steel age. The closure of the Henrichshütte Hattingen , Klartext, 1997.
  • With Waltraud Bierwirth: Melting points. Steel, crisis and resistance in the area , plain text, 1988. ISBN 978-3-88474-331-7
  • With Adi Ostertag , Hartmut Schulz: "Our example could set an example!" The "Hattinger Model". Struggle for existence on the Ruhr. Bund-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0924-2
  • "This company is occupied" - Mönninghoff GmbH in Hattingen , in: 125 years IG Metall, part 12, 23 August 2016.
  • Mönninghoff in Hattingen: Why and how we fought this labor dispute , in: Gerd Lobodda, Gerhard Richter (Ed.) Answers to late capitalism, selected concepts, campaigns, models in business, industry and region. IMU Institute, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-924003-09-2

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Hiege: Otto König: Metaller mit Kampfherz , in: Westdeutsche Zeitung , September 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Workers occupy "their company" , in: Vorwärts, February 16, 1984.
  3. ↑ See Herbert Klemisch, Kerstin Sack, Christoph Ehrsam: Takeover by workforces - a current inventory. Study on behalf of the Hans Böckler Foundation , July 2010 ISSN  1619-1633 , pp. 18–24 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 instructions and then remove this note. , PDF). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boeckler.de
  4. ↑ Historically: January 30 years ago. Occupation at Mönninghoff , Sprockhövel Education Center, January 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Banks refuse loan installments , in: Westfälische Rundschau, January 18, 1984.
  6. ↑ Workforce now works without wages , in: Westfälischer Anzeiger, February 14, 1984.
  7. ^ Carnations for the occupiers: Citizens encourage workers , in: Westfälische Rundschau, February 6, 1984.
  8. ↑ 800 Mönninghoff workers on the street - bankruptcy opened yesterday , in: Ruhr-Nachrichten, February 22, 1984.
  9. ↑ All of Mönninghoff continues to fight. “Solidarity gives us strength” , in: Westfälische Rundschau, February 27, 1984.
  10. ↑ Two million marks approved for Mönninghoff , in: Westfälische Rundschau, April 7, 1984; Mönninghoff saved? , in: Welt der Arbeit, April 19, 1984.
  11. ↑ "In the Düsseldorf Ministry of Economics, the financing concept for a continuation company failed yesterday due to the attitude of Dresdner Bank, which surprisingly withdrew its approval of an agreement reached last Friday." ( Rescue failed for Mönninghoff , in: Westfälische Rundschau, May 9, 1984).
  12. ↑ Otto König remains at the helm , in: Westfälische Rundschau, March 26, 1984.
  13. ↑ A city becomes unemployed. The steel company is driving Hattingen into ruin by closing its operations , in: Die Zeit , March 6, 1987.
  14. ↑ Even in the church they distributed yellow notes. in: Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 4, 1987.
  15. ^ Hour of Tears , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 26, 1987.
  16. ↑ Otto Koenig: Thirty years ago today: Employment company “Foundation stone unveiled” | IG Metall Gevelsberg - Hattingen. In: igmetall-en.de. August 18, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Otto Koenig: "Will they use pit ponies again in the future?" - Muckenhaupt GmbH in Hattingen | IG Metall Gevelsberg - Hattingen. In: www.igmetall-en.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Cf. KONE Hattingen "People are more important than profits", in: "Band der Solidarität", Resistance, Alternative Concepts, The IG Metall administration office Gevelsberg-Hattingen 1945-2010, VSA-Verlag Hamburg 2012, pp. 432–449
  19. ↑ See O&K Antriebstechnik Hattingen: “Sciopero” strike, in: “Band der Solidarität”, resistance, alternative concepts, IG Metall administration office Gevelsberg-Hattingen 1945-2010, VSA-Verlag Hamburg 2012, pp. 432–449
  20. ^ IG Metall: But a new building , in: Westdeutsche Zeitung , May 15, 2007.
  21. ↑ http://www.sozialismus.de/metanavigation/das_projekt
personal data
SURNAME King, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official (IG Metall)
DATE OF BIRTH 1945