Roland Issen
Roland Issen (born January 7, 1938 in Münster ) is a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ). From 1987 to 2001 he was chairman of the German Employees' Union (DAG), which is now part of ( ver.di ).
Life
Roland Issen was born as the son of an independent businessman in Münster / Westf. born and grew up in nearby Telgte . His father fled to relatives in the Netherlands at the end of 1939 for political reasons . Later, when the Germans occupied the Netherlands, he was killed by the Nazis . "I did not experience my father consciously at all". He was a regular soldier from 1962 and, after obtaining his university entrance qualification, studied economics at the Hamburg HWP at an evening school in Hamburg . This was financed by a grant from the DAG and obliged him to work for the union afterwards.
Since 1964 he worked as a graduate economist in the DAG. In 1978 he was elected to the national board of the DAG (collective bargaining and company policy). In 1987 he took over the chairmanship of the board of directors of the DAG as the successor to Hermann Brandt and initiated a rapprochement with the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), which in 2001 led to the establishment of the United Service Union (ver.di).
He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for 13 years (1978–1991) for the SPD . He was twice a member of the Federal Assembly , in which Roman Herzog was elected Federal President in 1994 and Johannes Rau in 1999 .
From 1983 to 2012 he was a member of the ZDF television and administrative board, deputy chairwoman of the television council, and a member of the programming advisory board of ARTE -Deutschland TV GmbH.
Roland Issen was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) from 1980 to 2002.
He also worked internationally for the trade unions: from 1990 to 2001 member of the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), 1992 to 1997 Deputy President of Euro-FIET (International Confederation of Private Employees) and from 1998 to 1999 President of Euro-FIET and member of the world board of FIET, 1999 to 2001 President of UNI-Europa .
From 1990 to 1998 member of the board of directors of the Treuhandanstalt .
“Roland Issen recognized early on that opposition among unions cannot have a winner. And he drew the conclusions from it, ”says ver.di Federal Chairman Frank Bsirske . "We owe him to a large extent that ver.di is a strong united service union for workers in Germany."
Quote
"I founded ver.di because I saw the need for the structure of the German trade union movement to be fundamentally reformed."
Awards
In 1999 Roland Issen received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .
Private
He is married and has a daughter who is a cultural manager in Hamburg.
literature
- About the person - Talks with Roland Issen, publisher: ver.di Federal Administration, Frank Bsirske, ver.di chairman, Berlin, December 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Roland Issen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Roland Issen: "You always have to give impetus" (brochure for the 80th birthday)
- Roland Issen biography at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Speech by Senator Dr. Dorothee Stapelfeldt: Senate reception for her 80th birthday
- Roland Issen as a contemporary witness via video interview
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal details - Conversations with Roland Issen, editor: ver.di-Bundesverwaltung, Frank Bsirske, ver.di-Chairman, Berlin, December 2017, p. 17.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 15, 1996
- ↑ on the person - conversations with Roland Issen, curriculum vitae p. 95, publisher: ver.di-Bundesverwaltung, Frank Bsirske, ver.di chairman, Berlin, December 2017
- ↑ Dorothee Stapelfeldt honors ver.di co-founder on his 80th birthday, accessed on January 3, 2018
- ↑ on the person - discussions with Roland Issen, p. 91, editor: ver.di Federal Administration, Frank Bsirske, ver.di chairman, Berlin, December 2017
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 7, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Issen, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |