Trustee of work

Administrative penalty notice of the Reich Trustee of Labor for the Vienna - Lower Danube area against Maria Fischer , January 27, 1941, page 1

Administrative penalty notice of the Reich Trustee of Labor for the Vienna-Niederdonau area against Maria Fischer, January 27, 1941, page 2

The Trustees of Labor (also Reich Trustees of Labor ) were an instance created by Reich law on May 19, 1933, which were supposed to mediate in conflicts in companies between employers and workers. A total of 22 trustees were appointed, all of whom were directly subordinate to the Reich Labor Ministry.

The Reich trustees of work were part of the workforce and operational harmonization of society during the National Socialist era .

The trustees were usually recruited from the private sector, state employment and economic administrations or from the chambers of industry and commerce ( IHK ). The appointment of a trustee was valid for one year (from May 1st every year) and could be renewed every year.

tasks

The tasks of the trustees were in detail:

• Establishing the tariff regulations and monitoring their implementation
• Maintenance of industrial peace
• Dispute Resolution
• Formation of the trust council
• Monitoring and compliance with the operating rules
• Participation in the social justice system
• Obligation to notify the Reich Ministry of Labor and the Reich Chancellery about the socio-political developments in their economic areas
• Participation in aryanizations

people

The trustees of the work include a. appointed:

• Wilhelm Börger , Rhineland
• Emil Evers , Central Germany-Halle-Merseburg
• Carl Lüer , Hesse
• Richard Markert , Lower Saxony
• Hans Schreiber , East Prussia
• Friedrich Völtzer , Berlin and Kiel
• Kurt Melcher , special and Reich trustee for the public service
• Arno Hoppe (born 1882), Saxony; previously Ministerialrat ibid.
• Karl Hahn , Westphalia

See also

• National Socialist company cell organization
• German labor front

literature

• Operator's manual, 1941

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Law on Trustees of Labor of May 19, 1933, online here or here
2. ↑ See the law on the organization of national labor of January 20, 1934, therein §§ 18-25 on the trustee of labor, online here or here .
3. ↑ A consultation with the trustee of the Bahn (first name unknown) in Essen has shown that he has been informed about the purchase negotiations and that he considers it necessary to at least limit the foreign passports of the Jews Barmé to the inland. In his opinion, this would induce them to accept an offer for German Reichsmarks and it could be prevented that too great economic sacrifices would have to be made for the transfer of the copper and brass works in Langenberg into Aryan hands. Source , from Frank Friedhelm Homberg: Rescue Resistance in Wuppertal during National Socialism, Diss. Phil. University of Düsseldorf, p. 204 (there with details of the archive)
4. ^ Karl Hahn: Trustee of the work for the economic area Westphalia: Promotion of the operating community. Hibernia Newspaper. Werkzeitung der Bergwerksgesellschaft Hibernia AG Herne 3, No. 4, February 23, 1935; back in the Ruhr area. A historical reader. Ed. Klaus Tenfelde , Thomas Urban. Klartext, Essen 2010, Vol. 2, Doc. 12/3, pp. 662 - 664, here p. 663 below: my endeavors as trustee of work ...