Rainer Einenkel

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Rainer Einenkel (born May 20, 1954 in Thum , Zschopau district , GDR ) was Chairman of the Works Council of the Opel plant in Bochum until January 12, 2015 and a member of the Adam Opel AG Supervisory Board until March 31, 2015 .

Life

Einenkel was born in Thum near Zschopau in Saxony. In 1961 his family came to the Ruhr area a month before the Wall was built . His father was a committed trade unionist . Einenkel senior worked in the new plant in 1962, where the first Opel Kadetts rolled off the assembly line. In 1972, 18-year-old Einenkel became one of more than 20,000 Opel employees at the time. He began an apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician. In 1973 the trainees elected him to the youth and trainee representative in Bochum . Father and son went to shift together until 1990. Since 1988 he has been one of the elected exempt works councils. He was later deputy chairman of the works council . In 2004 he was elected by the works council as chairman of the works council at the Bochum plant. In the works council, 23 of 37 works council members elected him as works council chairman.

Einenkel became known beyond the boundaries of the company through the discussion about the closure of the Bochum Opel plant since 2004. In connection with the fight against the plant closure, Einenkel was a guest at various talk shows.

Einenkel was a member of the DKP until 1988 .

Rainer Einenkel is married and has three children.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Against soft politics
  2. ^ Radical cure at Opel. “We're not excluding anything”. ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 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. In: The star. October 14, 2004, accessed November 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  3. ^ Off for Opel in Bochum - the tragedy of Rainer Einenkel. , WAZ, derwesten.de, April 17, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Kirsten Ludowig: Rainer Einenkel - The tragic hero appears again. In: Handelsblatt. handelsblatt.com, March 9, 2010, accessed November 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Einenkel, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, chairman of the works council of the Opel plant in Bochum
DATE OF BIRTH May 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Thum , Zschopau district , GDR