Rehberger (Berlin)
The Rehberger were a group of emergency workers from various professions who, on behalf of the Berlin magistrate, had been doing earthworks in Germany in the Rehberge north of Berlin for a daily wage since 1847 and during the revolution of 1848/1849 .
The approximately 600 to 700 Rehberger played a role in various street demonstrations in Berlin in which they appeared with red flags. The Rehbergers had only very vague political ideas and usually only demanded narrowly limited social improvements such as a reduction in working hours, an increase in their daily earnings or, in individual cases, the liberation of arrested colleagues. Nevertheless, they can exemplify the resistance against the spreading bourgeois work ethic.
Other working groups in Berlin that appeared as one in 1848 were:
- the canal workers from Plötzensee
- the earthworkers from the Berlin-Spandau Canal and from the Köpenicker Feld
- the mechanical engineers and iron foundries of the Borsig factories
Individual evidence
- ^ Rüdiger Hachtman: Berlin 1848. A political and social history of the revolution. Bonn 1997. p. 448.
- ↑ Norbert Batnik and Frieda Bordon: The Rehberger. Subculture of the Berlin earthworkers around 1830, in: Bergmann / Janssen / Klein (ed.): Autonomie im Arbeitserkampf, contributions to the fight against the factory society, Hamburg / Munich 1978, p. 73ff.