Rudolf Sperner
Rudolf Sperner (born January 15, 1919 in Böhmischdorf ; † October 3, 2010 in Rheine ) was a German trade union official .
Life
After attending primary and commercial school, Rudolf Sperner completed a commercial training and then worked in a consumer cooperative, of which he later became the branch manager. Until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , Sperner then worked as a construction assistant in the construction industry after the National Socialists had previously liquidated the consumer cooperative.
After the end of the Second World War and the subsequent American captivity, he first worked as a stoker at the Borgmann glassworks in Ibbenbüren , where he became a member of the works council. Later he was also employed as a miner at the Ibbenbüren mine before working again as a construction assistant. With the entry into the SPD in 1946 and the initially voluntary, later full-time work in the IG Bau Steine Erden (IG BSE), Rudolf Sperner began to get involved in party politics and trade unions. Before the war he was already politically active with the Falcons .
In 1951 he became managing director of the Rheine district association and in 1955 regional chairman of the Westphalia district. Since 1960 he was a member of the main board of IG BSE, whose deputy he became in 1963. The high point of his union career was in 1966 when he was elected federal chairman and successor to Georg Leber , who moved to the federal cabinet under Kurt Georg Kiesinger and became Federal Minister of Transport there. He headed the union for a total of 16 years before Konrad Carl was elected as his successor in 1982.
In terms of collective bargaining policy, Sperner was seen as a negotiating partner who knew how to meet the employer's side as well as to enforce the interests and demands of the employees' side. Collective bargaining therefore usually ended amicably, as was the case with his predecessor Leber.
Even during his retirement, he still stood up for the interests of the employees. After reunification, for example, he used contacts in business to save East German companies from bankruptcy and employees from losing their jobs.
Rudolf Sperner died on October 3, 2010 at the age of 91 in Rheine.
Act
In the 16 years of his tenure, Rudolf Sperner has made a significant contribution to collective bargaining and social policy achievements for those employed in the construction industry. The introduction of the winter allowance for employees in the construction industry and the anchoring of income protection in the event of company bankruptcies should be emphasized.
Honors
- 1975: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1979: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1980: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
- 1983: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1990: Hessian Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://archiv.ivz-aktuell.de/index4.php?id=27748&pageno=13 Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung on January 15, 1999: "Rudolf Sperner is 80 years old: Helping has made us strong"; accessed on 12. September 1999
- ↑ Old Opera. Rudolf Sperner, the staunchest of Germany's trade union leaders, resigns. Article in SPIEGEL Online from October 18, 1982, accessed on December 23, 2010
- ^ Obituary notice, Westfälische Nachrichten of October 9, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2010
- ↑ Rudolf Sperner dies - IG BAU mourns its former federal chairman. IG BAU press release at firmenpresse.de from October 6, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2010
Web links
- Rudolf Sperner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sperner, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bohemian village |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | Rheine |