Rolf Johanning

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Rolf Johanning at the SPD district election conference (1973)
Demonstration by IG Metall against the planned job cuts at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG 1978- Lectern Rolf Johanning

Rolf Johanning (born September 19, 1940 in Uslar ) is a German trade unionist and former local politician ( SPD ). From 1978 to 1982 he was mayor of Kiel .

Life and professional development

Rolf Johanning trained as a high- voltage electrician in a furniture factory in Uslar and joined the SPD, the union and the Friends of Nature Association at the age of 18 . Then he attended the boarding school for political education in Hanover , an institution of work and life , the folk high school in Springe am Deister. After two years at Deutsche Post in the telecommunications office in Hanover and a member of the staff council , he began studying at the social academy in Dortmund with a grant from the union . In 1966 he became a full-time Secretary of the Postal Workers' Union today ver.di .

Political work

The Breuste monument "WIK - Fire from the Kettles", title based on the drama by Ernst Toller (1930) in the Kiel council servant garden.

In the function of a union secretary, he came to Kiel, where he was chairman of the SPD local association Gaarden-Ost for several years until 1972, when he moved from Gaarden to Kiel-Schilksee , and from 1981 to 1983 he was a member of the board of the district party. From 1970 to 1990 he was a member of the Kiel council, in which he represented the east bank constituency. In 1972 he was elected honorary city councilor for war victims and the disabled, in 1976 for international relations and contacts with the population and in 1982 as head of culture. Among other things, he was committed to establishing the cultural quarter in the Sophienhof and accommodating the Kiel children's and youth theater in the Werftpark . The creation of the "revolutionary monument " by Hans-Jürgen Breuste goes back to his initiative, which was erected in the council servant garden in 1982 after fundamental disputes over the Kiel sailors' uprising . Johann wanted to make the citizens aware of the time and a symbol with a view of the Laboe memorial He also made a substantial private investment in this property and became a co-owner.

In 1990 he left Kiel to build the postal union in the new federal states in Berlin after reunification. Today he lives in Kiel-Schilksee and Berlin . He has a son from his first marriage. He is married to the artist Tina Schwichtenberg for the second time .

Another major initiative remained unsuccessful: after long debates, the project of a comprehensive museum for industrial and everyday culture in Kiel, which had been pursued for many years mainly by Rolf Johanning and the SPD, was not implemented.

A picture by Johanning can be found in the portrait gallery of Kiel City Hall. It was painted by Peter Nagel in 1985 .

Quote

“Rolf Johanning thought and acted very politically in all of his offices. To this day he is committed to internal and external peace. For example, as a councilor, he spoke out against the building of submarines for the Pinochet regime in Chile at Kiel shipyards . "

- History workshop of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City President Kiel . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Biographical data from video: Let's chatter, episode 95 2017
  3. ↑ SPD history workshop Rolf Johanning
  4. ↑ SPD history workshop Rolf Johanning
  5. ↑ Oliver Auge : Problem case sailors uprising - Kiel's difficulties in dealing with a key date in his and German history, in: Democratic History No. 25, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 2014, pp. 307–328
  6. ↑ Uwe Danker : The revolutionary city of Kiel - starting point for the first German democracy, in: Democratic History No. 25, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 2014, p. 300
  7. ↑ Let me chat Rolf Johanning result 95 2017
  8. ↑ ver.di: 1989/90 - Unions and German Unity: Chronicle Retrieved on July 27, 2020.
  9. ^ Portrait of Rolf Johanning kiel.de. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  10. ^ Portrait of Rolf Johanning kiel.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  11. ↑ SPD history workshop Rolf Johanning
personal data
SURNAME Johanning, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Uslar