Richard Horn (trade unionist)

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Richard Horn (born October 10, 1890 in Leipzig , † February 12, 1947 ) was a German technician , union official and second chairman of the FDGB in Thuringia .

Life

Horn came from a family of craftsmen in Leipzig . His father was a lithographer . After attending primary school, he learned the trade of a tool fitter and then worked as a technician. From 1910 to 1912 he did military service in the imperial army and from 1914 to 1918 took part in the First World War. After the end of the war and the November Revolution, he worked again as a technician for a year and in 1920 he became the full-time secretary of the Association of Technical Employees and Officials (BUTAB) in Frankfurt am Main .

After the NSDAP came to power , he lost his trade union office and worked again as a technician in Düsseldorf and Leipzig. In 1944 he was called up as a soldier in the Wehrmacht , was taken prisoner by the US , from which he was released in June 1945.

When Germany was liberated from Nazi rule , he joined the re-established Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), for whose party work he was active in Saxony . In autumn 1945 he followed a call to Thuringia and came into the management of the Thuringian Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), whose second chairman he became with the mandate of the SPD. In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He was also a member of the SED state board of Thuringia. At the same time he became a member of the union's federal executive committee. In Erfurt he took over the chairmanship of the municipal consumer cooperative and became chairman of the Thuringian Social Insurance Institution .

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 555.
  • Stefan Paul Werum: Union decline in socialist construction. The Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) 1945 to 1953 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36902-6 , p. 35 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horn, Richard . In: FDGB-Lexikon 2009 . Retrieved May 26, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1947