Socialist Lake Constance International

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Socialist Lake Constance International
Chairman logo
Fredi Alder
 
Basic data
Art Regional organization (umbrella organization)
Alignment Socialism , social democracy
distribution Lake Constance area
Establishment date 1902
Place of foundation Bregenz
Chairman Fredi Alder
Honorary Chairman Karl Falschlunger (1930–2012)
Addresses
Website www.bodensee-internationale.eu
structure
Members 220 member organizations of 3 social democratic parties from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (as of 2002)

Socialist Lake Constance International (SBI) is a cross-border regional organization ( umbrella association ) of social democratic party and trade union organizations in the countries bordering Lake Constance Germany , Austria and Switzerland, founded in 1902 . It consists of 220 local party groups from the Social Democratic Party of Germany , Social Democratic Party of Austria and the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland as well as the Social Democratic Union (FSG) in Vorarlberg and sees itself as an international political advocacy group for the Lake Constance region and in particular for the employees who live here.

history

In May 1877 a meeting of the Bodensee-Gauverband der Arbeiterbildungsvereine took place in Lindau. German, Austrian and Swiss delegates took part.

On August 10, 1902, the socialists from the Lake Constance region held the 1st International Workers' Festival in Bregenz with around 900 participants. This is considered to be the hour of birth of the Socialist Lake Constance International (until 1928 and a little longer as the Workers' International of the Lake Constance shore states or sometimes shortened as the Workers International or Lake Constance International . From 1946 only as the Socialist Lake Constance International).

On the occasion of the III. Workers' festival in Lindau , in which 2500 people take part, it was decided to open a central information bureau to give workers information about strikes, wages and labor relations in the various countries. Karl Julius Großhans became the first secretary until his resignation in 1907. The office presumably existed until 1908.

At the IVth International Workers' Festival in Dornbirn in 1906, 4,000 socialists have already taken part. During the period of the First World War (1914 to 1918) and until 1922, the activities of the SBI largely ceased and in 1923 the rebuilding is suggested and carried out on August 24, 1924 in Rorschach . The meeting planned for August 13 and 14, 1927 in Bregenz had to be canceled at short notice due to the assertion of the Vorarlberg governor, Otto Ender , that unrest was to be expected and relocated to Arbon (Switzerland).

Due to the ban on the Socialist Party in Germany in 1933 and in Austria in 1934, SBI's activities came to a complete standstill until 1945. In 1934, the archive of the SBI in Bregenz was destroyed by the Social Democrats themselves in order to prevent access to the Austrian Austro-Faschish table state .

After the National Socialist dictatorship , the SBI was rebuilt in Bregenz on August 8, 1946. In 1953 a socialist friendship meeting was organized in Arbon for the first time with 4,000 participants. In 1960 the first International Women's Day is held in Lindau as part of the SBI. In 1965, the SBI board of directors passed the Lake Constance Declaration in Bregenz , with the central requirement for environmental and water protection. The workers' meetings or friendship meetings in the sense of a demonstration of socialist strength are largely abandoned this year.

In 2002 the Prix ​​Wasserfrau was awarded for the first time for the AIDA St. Gallen project. The Prix ​​Wasserfrau is an award for successful women's equality projects.

Members

Members of the SBI in Germany are the SPD Baden-Württemberg with the district associations : Bodenseekreis , Konstanz , Ravensburg , Sigmaringen and the SPD Bavaria with the district associations: Lindau and Oberallgäu and related unions.

In Austria ( Vorarlberg ) it is the SPÖ Vorarlberg and the parliamentary group of social democratic trade unionists Vorarlberg.

From Switzerland belong to the SBI: the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland of the cantons St.Gallen , Schaffhausen , Thurgau , Appenzell Innerrhoden and Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

President

Actual presidents of the SBI can only be named in this sense after the First World War .

  • 1924–1926, Oskar Groll (D), provisional director 1924, president 1925 and 1926.
  • 1926–1930, Heinrich Abegg (CH).
  • 1930–1933 and 1946–1959, Josef Peter (A). From 1933 ban on the Socialist Party in Germany, re-establishment of the SBI from 1946.
  • 1959–1966, Walter Peter (A, son of Josef Peter).
  • 1966–1974, Ernst Rodel (CH), President and Vice-President from 1946, he was one of the founders of the Socialist Lake Constance International after the Second World War.
  • 1959–1968, Friedrich Fehrenbach (D), President and Vice President from 1959, term of office ended with his death in 1968.
  • 1972–1987, Roman Heinz (A), was President from 1972 to 1975 and then Vice President of the SBI.
  • 1972–1984, Josef Rickenbach (CH), President and Vice President 1972 to 1984.
  • 1975–1990, Rudolf Bindig (D), President and Vice President 1975 to 1990.
  • 1984–1992, Josef Dahinden (CH), President and Vice President 1984 to 1992.
  • 1987–2002, Karl Falschlunger (A), 2002–2012 honorary president of the SBI.
  • 1992–2001, Walter Anderes (CH), President and Vice President 1992–2001 .
  • 1990–, Norbert Zeller (D), President and Vice President from 1990.
  • 2001–2018, Fredi Alder (CH), President or Vice President.
  • 2011–, Olga Pircher (A), President and Vice President.
  • 2018–, Reinhold Einwallner (A), President.

literature

  • Andreas Fuchs, Sozialistische Bodensee-Internationale (Hrsg.): 100 years "Sozialistische Bodensee-Internationale" (SBI). A chronology of memorable events. Festschrift. Götzis 2002, online .
  • Manfred Scheuch: History of the Vorarlberg Workers up to 1918 , ÖGB-Verlag, Vienna 1961.

Web links

Commons : Sozialistische Bodensee-Internationale  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b Fredi Alder: Socialist Bodensee-InternationaleGrüß Gott, Servus, Grüezi , website: SP Appenzell Ausserrhoden, welcome.
  3. ↑ Manfred Scheuch: History of the Vorarlberg Workers up to 1918 , p. 95.
  4. ↑ The year 1908, which was long given as the year of foundation, has turned out to be incorrect based on the surveys for the Festschrift: 100 Years of the “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events .
  5. ↑ 100 Years of the “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , pp. 7, 10, 18, 20, 23.
  6. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , pp. 11, 14.
  7. ↑ 100 years "Socialist Lake Constance International" (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 12.
  8. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 15 f.
  9. ↑ 100 years "Socialist Lake Constance International" (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 14.
  10. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , pp. 8 and 21.
  11. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 23 f.
  12. ↑ 100 years of the “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 27.
  13. ↑ 100 years "Socialist Lake Constance International" (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 28.
  14. ↑ 100 years "Socialist Lake Constance International" (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 39.
  15. ↑ Werner Bundschuh: "The sun of freedom shines again over the free earth". The SPÖ regional organization Vorarlberg after 1945 . Ed .: Dr. Karl Renner Institute Vorarlberg. Bregenz 2005 ( available online on the SPÖ Rankweil website [PDF]). , P. 35.
  16. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , pp. 14, 42 f.
  17. ↑ 100 years “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , pp. 18, 23.
  18. ↑ 100 years of the “Socialist Lake Constance International” (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 27.
  19. ↑ 100 years "Socialist Lake Constance International" (SBI) , A Chronology of Memorable Events , p. 29.
  20. ↑ a b Einwallner is President of the Bodensee-Internationale , Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung from March 27, 2018.
  21. ↑ Olga Pircher new President of the Bodensee-Internationale , vol.at of November 21, 2011.