Reiner Hoffmann

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Reiner Hoffmann (2018)
Reiner Hoffmann (r.) In conversation with the former DGB federal chairman Michael Sommer and Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze at the SPD federal party conference on April 22, 2018 in Wiesbaden

Reiner Hoffmann (born May 30, 1955 in Wuppertal ) is a German trade union official . Since May 2014 he has been chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB).

Life

Hoffmann is the son of a bricklayer ; his mother worked as a cleaning lady . After elementary school and business school, he attended the technical college for economics. He did his community service in the surgical department of a municipal hospital in Wuppertal. In 1972 he joined the SPD and the IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik ( IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie , IG BCE since 1997 ).

At Hoechst AG he worked as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. After doing community service at the Wuppertal Clinic , he studied at the University of Wuppertal , graduating in 1982 with a degree in economics . After working as an assistant at the Economic and Social Committee (WSA) of the European Community in Brussels and as a research assistant at the Department of Economics at the University of Wuppertal, he worked at the Hans Böckler Foundation from 1984 and was head of the research funding department there until 1994.

From October 1994 to May 2003 he was Director of the European Trade Union Institute (EGI), then until 2003 Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). From 2009 he was head of the North Rhine district of IG BCE. In October 2013 he was elected a member of the executive board of the DGB and took up this position in February 2014 as the successor to Claus Matecki . On January 15, 2014, the chairmen of the eight member unions of the DGB officially nominated him for the position at the head of the trade union federation. In May 2014 he was elected by the DGB Federal Congress. He received 93.1 percent of the delegate votes. Hoffmann succeeded Michael Sommer . In 2017, together with Kerstin Jürgens and Christina Hoffmann, he created the volume Work transforming! Food for thought issued by the “Work of the Future” commission . In May 2018, the 62-year-old was confirmed in office by the DGB Federal Congress in Berlin with a majority of 76.3 percent (289 delegates for, 90 delegates against).

Hoffmann sits on the supervisory boards of several companies, including Bayer AG . He is a widower and has two grown children.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Völpel, Barbara Dribbusch: "I say very clearly: Avarice is not cool" In: the daily newspaper , May 12, 2014, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Tillmann Bendikowski: Help: Why we are there for others. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-10313-5 , p. 244.
  3. ^ A question with Reiner Hoffmann. In: insight 1/2014. January 20, 2014, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 20th Parliament of Labor: Reiner Hoffmann elected as the new DGB Federal Chairman. German Trade Union Federation, May 12, 2014, archived from the original on May 13, 2014 ; accessed on May 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Maximilian Plück: Hoffmann elected DGB boss with 93.1 percent. In: RP Online . May 12, 2015, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  6. ^ Federal Congress: DGB chairman Hoffmann confirmed. In: ARD Tagesschau . May 14, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Vita Reiner Hoffmann. German Trade Union Confederation, May 13, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal