Richard Seidel (trade unionist)

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Richard Seidel (born June 13, 1882 in Berlin , † November 19, 1951 ) was a German lithographer , editor and union official.

Life

After attending school, Seidel completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer and then worked in this profession. Seidel became a union member in 1904 and joined the SPD in 1907 . From 1913 Seidel was the education secretary at the district education committee for Greater Berlin. After the end of the First World War , he was editor of the USPD newspaper Freiheit from 1918 to 1922 , then secretary for works councils and collective labor law at the German Railway Workers Association until 1926 and then editor of the union newspaper of the ADGB federal executive board until 1933 . In addition, he was chairman of the workers' culture cartel in Berlin and was a member of the Reich Committee for Socialist Educational Work.

During the Second World War , Seidel was designated by the conspirators of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet as head of the press department in a future Reich leadership in the event of a successful putsch. It is unknown whether Seidel was aware of this.

After the end of the war, Seidel was an editor at the Baden trade unionist and lecturer at the Academy for Labor in Frankfurt am Main . From 1950 he worked continuously for the DGB newspaper Welt der Arbeit .

Works

  • The trade union movement and the council system Seidel, Richard. - Berlin: The Workers' Council, 1919
  • The unions in the revolution Seidel, Richard. - Berlin: "Freedom", 1920
  • The Union Movement and Officials' Right to Strike Seidel, Richard. - Berlin: T. Breitscheid, publ. [The Socialist], [1922]
  • Working hours, wages and performance (together with Paul Hertz), Berlin: Verlagsgesellschaft d. General German Trade Union Confederation, 1923
  • The Seidel Works Council School , Richard. - Berlin: Verlag d. Working group, 1924
  • The unions after the war Seidel, Richard. - Berlin: JHW Dietz Nachf., 1925
  • Trade unions and political parties in Germany , Seidel, Richard. - Berlin [-Charlottenburg, Berliner Str. 42/43]: Weltgeist-Bücher Verl.-Ges., 1928
  • The trade union movement in Germany Seidel, Richard. - Amsterdam: International Trade Union Confederation, 1929, 2nd, ext. Ed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (AdsD): Entry: Richard Seidel
  2. ^ Rüdiger Zimmermann: On the status of the collection and indexing of trade union literature. In: The printed memory of tertiarization - pilot project to secure central union sources of the free employee movement, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86872-432-5 , p. 19f.
  3. ↑ Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1951