Theodor Ankermann

Theodor August Ankermann (born May 20, 1888 in Offenbach am Main , † January 8, 1967 ) was a German trade unionist and politician .

Life

Ankermann was a trained saddler . In 1905 he became a member of the Association of Saddlers. In 1907 he joined the SPD. Ankermann was a shop steward from 1916 and chairman of the works council between 1918 and 1923. In December 1918 he was a delegate to the 1st General Works Council Congress in Berlin . In 1919 he became a member of the KPD .

From 1921 to 1926 he was chairman of the Offenbach local committee of the German saddlery, upholsterer and portfolioer band . From 1923 to 1933 he also worked as secretary of the Offenbach local administration of this association. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Starkenburg Province in the People's State of Hesse . In 1929 Ankermann left the KPD and became a member of the KPO . In 1932 he then switched to SAP .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Ankermann was arrested several times between 1933 and 1939. In August 1944 he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Ankermann was one of the first trade unionists and one of the founding members of the Workers' Party (AP) in Offenbach. However, he resigned from this party in May 1946, as the AP had voted for the candidate of the CDU for the office of Lord Mayor of Offenbach - Fritz Reinicke . Ankermann then joined the SPD.

From October 1945 Ankermann was chairman of the leather production and leather processing union in Offenbach, then from June 1946 chairman of the textile, clothing and leather union in Hesse . From April 1949 to 1953 he worked as the second chairman of the leather trade union for the Trizone and for the Federal Republic as well as the head of the collective bargaining department of its main board in Stuttgart .

literature

• Adolf Mirkes: A new house made of ruins. Offenbach trade unions 1945–1948 . Saalbau-Verlag, Offenbach 1981, ISBN 3-922879-05-5 , p. 156f.
• Bernd Klemm (Hrsg.): "Police intervention put an end to the nonsense". Secret reports by the Hesse political police on left and right in Offenbach 1923–1930 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Saalbau-Verlag, Offenbach 1982, ISBN 3-593-33011-3 , pp. 56, 193, 233 and 345
• Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century . Volume 6: Organizational structure of the trade unions 1945–1949 . Dietz, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7663-0906-4 , p. 475.
• Dieter Schuster: 1949–1989. Forty years of the leather union. Anniversary chronicle . Leather union, main board, Stuttgart 1989, p. 168.
• Hans-Holger Paul (arr.): Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement for the ten West German states and West Berlin . Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-11104-5 , p. 11f.
• Klaus Tenfelde (ed.): A new bond of solidarity: chemistry - mining - leather. Industrial workers and trade unions in Germany since the Second World War . Buchdruckwerkstätten, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-89384-015-X , p. 351.