Theodor Brylla

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Theodor Brylla (born on January 6, 1882 in Proskau , Opole district ; died on August 17, 1962 ) was a German trade unionist.

Life

Theodor Brylla was born in Proskau, a small town in Upper Silesia . He attended elementary school and then learned the trade of a locksmith . From 1902 to 1921 he worked as a miner . From 1909 to 1921 he was 2nd chairman in the function of the miners' union of the Hirsch-Duncker direction. He joined the German Democratic Party (DDP) founded in 1918 . Theodor Brylla was editor of the magazine Der Bergarbeiter from 1921 to 1933 and 2nd chairman of the trade union of German factory and manual workers . He lived in Potsdam .

Brylla was one of the participants in the meeting between the Reich President and miners 'representatives on February 6, 1931, about problems with miners' insurance under the emergency ordinances . He participated in the 15th International Conference of the ILO in May / June 1931 in Geneva .

When Hitler came to power in 1933 , he was driven into illegality and arrested several times in the period up to 1945.

After the end of the war in May 1945 he took an active part in the establishment of a unified trade union . He was a member of the preparatory committee for the establishment of the trade unions in Berlin . From 1946 to September 1950 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). In 1945 he joined the CDU . From 1946 to 1949 he was 3rd chairman of the FDGB regional association Brandenburg. In the federal board of the FDGB he worked, among other things, as head of the main holiday service department from 1949 to 1950. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament (CDU parliamentary group). Brylla was head of the works council department in the Brandenburg regional association of the FDGB.

In November 1947 he traveled to Moscow with an FDGB delegation at the invitation of the World Trade Union Confederation . In addition to Brylla, the group consisted of Roman Chwalek , Hermann Schlimme , Hans Jendretzky , Bernhard Göring , Paul Träde, Kurt Ranke and Nikolaus Bernhard . In the new Germany Theodor Brylla gave his impressions of the trip again. He had a son Alfons Brylla , who was a Soviet prisoner of war and whom he saw again in Moscow.

From 1948 to 1949 he was a member of the 1st and 2nd German People's Council and a member of the Presidium of the People's Council and from 1949 to 1950 a member of the Provisional People's Chamber (parliamentary group of the FDGB). From 1959 to 1962 he was co-editor and employee of the trade union unit magazine . He belonged to the presidium of the federal executive committee of the FDGB. Theodor Brylla died on August 17, 1962.

Publications

  • The miner. Specialized body of the miners department of the trade union of German factory and manual workers (H.-D.). Editing by Th. Brylla et al. Gräf, Berlin 1905–1933.
  • The factory and manual worker. Organ of the trade union of German factory and manual workers (H.-D.). Editing by Th. Brylla et al. Gräf, Berlin 1905–1933.
  • Trade union of German factory and manual workers (H.-D.). In: International Concise Dictionary of Trade Unions. Edited by Ludwig Heyde . Volume 1. Verlag Werk und Wirtschaft, Berlin 1931, pp. 708–710. Digitized
  • German trade union unit. Edited by August Reitz , Franz Scheffel . Co-founded by Josef Orlopp and Theodor Brylla. Verlag Tribüne , Berlin May 1, 1959–1962.

Archival material

literature

  • First large conference of delegates of the Free German Trade Union Federation of the Province of Brandenburg. In: Berliner Zeitung of August 28, 1945. Volume 1, No. 90, p. 4.
  • Theodor Brylla retired. In: Neue Zeit , Berlin from January 9, 1951, p. 2.
  • Ernst Egon Lange: Theodor Brylla. The decision. In: Heinz Germany , Ernst Egon Lange (Hrsg.): Wegbereiter. 32 portrait sketches. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-7303-0169-1 , pp. 160-171. contents
  • Brylla, Theodore. In: Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber , Gerhard Braas: SBZ-Handbuch. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, p. 880.
  • Fritz Reinert: Protocols of the regional bloc committee of the anti-fascist-democratic parties of Brandenburg 1945-1950. Böhlau, Weimar 1994 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive Potsdam. Volume 30)
  • Karl G. Herrmann: The history of the international miners' association 1890-1939. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 196, 464, 466. (= sources and studies on social history. Volume 12)
  • Hermann Nehls: Liberation. The legacy of National Socialism from a trade union perspective. Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, p. 101. [Short biography] (= A publication by the DGB youth education center Flecken-Zechlin. )
  • rt: A man of high consistency. Theodor Brylla (January 6th, 1882 - August 7th, 1962). In: Potsdam's other sides. 3rd year (2007). August 2007, No. 8, p. 4. Digital version accessed March 13, 2013
  • FDGB lexicon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Edited by Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke , arr. by Michael Kubina. Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 . Theodor Brylla accessed online March 13, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brylla, Theodor, Arbeitersekretär, Johannistal 12. In: Official Gazette of the Government in Potsdam. 1928, p. 171.
  2. ↑ R 43 I / 2177, pp. 331-335 copy
  3. ↑ Group portrait with Theodor Brylla in the estate of Emil Strumpp (1886-1941) Institute for Newspaper Research Dortmund
  4. ↑ FDGB thanks Theodor Brylla. In: New Time . September 24, 1950, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Whether and when he left them is unclear.
  6. ↑ State Board of the FDGB Brandenburg (1945-52) ( FDGB Lexikon , Berlin 2009.)
  7. ↑ On July 7, 1950, he moved up for MP Josef Halbey (CDU).
  8. ↑ 48. Brylla, Theodor, trade union secretary. Potsdam, Schopenhauerstraße 27. In: Handbook of the Landtag of Brandenburg. Märkische Druck- u. Verlags-GmbH, Potsdam 1947, p. 45.
  9. ^ Stefan Paul Werum: Union decline in socialist construction. The Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) 1945 to 1953. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-525-36902-6 , p. 177.
  10. ↑ Also Paul Traede.
  11. ↑ Federal Executive of the FDGB (ed.): From the work of the Free German Trade Union Federation, 1947-1949. The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1950, p. 20.
  12. ↑ “Theodor Brylla, the chairman of the FDGB leadership of Brandenburg and member of the CDU, said that he was brought up in the spirit of democratic liberalism and does not share the socialist worldview. 'But what I saw in Moscow,' explained Brylla, 'moved me deeply. I saw that a people who went through so much kept the spirit of friendship and discipline '. "( Neues Deutschland, November 12, 1947.)
  13. ↑ A man of high consistency .
  14. ↑ Date of publication: 1.1905 - 21.1918.5; 12/1918.6-191925; 22.1926-29.1933, 18; so that shows are discontinued.
  15. ↑ Date of publication: 1.1905 - 29.1933; so that shows are discontinued.
  16. ^ Anette Meiburg, Sigrun Mühl-Benninghaus: The holdings of the foundation archive of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR. Brief overview. Ed. Colloquium, Berlin 1996, p. 89.
  17. ↑ "The picture shows v. 1st no: Andreas Morgenthaler, Theodor Brylla, Franz Moericke, Karl Salomon, Willi Wolf , Max Fischer. Photo Joachim Sonnenfeld ”.
  18. ↑ “Since 1902 Theodor Brylla worked in Waldenburg coal pits, driven from colliery to colliery because of active union involvement, in the Ruhr area because of criticism of the abuses in the mines on the flight from district to district, fought and persecuted everywhere, but loved and to their spokesman chosen by his loyal pals. For forty years Brylla was active in the Hirsch-Dunker unions, was editor of the miners' newspaper, member of the board of the trade union, member of the Miners International, conference participant at the International Labor Office in Geneva, always fighting for the rights of his buddies. After 1945 he worked tirelessly in the state board of the FDGB Brandenburg, became a member of the German People's Council, was a member of the CDU in the Brandenburg state parliament and a member of the BWilli Wolf (trade unionist) | and board of the FDGB. These are the milestones in the socialist work of our Union friend Theodor Brylla, who is now taking his well-deserved retirement after a life of caring for the working people. When it came to helping a trade unionist, leisure was an unknown concept to him. We wish him, who has gone to Hangelsberg (Spree) out of consideration for his health , that he will live to see the day when a unified free trade union will be formed throughout Germany ”.
personal data
SURNAME Brylla, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Proskau
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1962