Otto Sprenger
Otto Sprenger (born March 4, 1917 in Harburg , † February 9, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German trade unionist .
Life
In the early 1950s, Sprenger worked as a student at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). Politically organized in the SPD , he was elected as the successor to Helmut Schmidt as chairman of the Hamburg group of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). After completing his studies in philosophy, he was archive manager at NDR. In this capacity he was also a co-founder and first chairman of the international association of television archives FIAT / IFTA. He remained chairman from 1977 until October 1982. Elected honorary chairman of the Rundfunk-Fernseh-Film-Union (RFFU), he played a major role in the creation of exemplary collective bargaining systems in public broadcasting, especially in the NDR. A number of regulations he helped shape have remained the foundation of applicable collective bargaining law to this day.
Otto Sprenger played a key role in founding the Artists' Social Fund, which gives freelance journalists and artists access to benefits from the statutory pension and health insurance. From 1973 to 1980 he was national chairman of the art union , and in 1985 he founded the Otto Sprenger Foundation with his own fortune. This sponsors talented directors with 10,000 euros every year.
Web links
Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Dorothea and Martha Sprenger Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprenger, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2006 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |