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Wilhelm Gleichauf (born August 4, 1855 in Donaueschingen , † September 25, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( DDP ).

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Wilhelm Gleichauf came from a farming family. After attending primary school in Donaueschingen and high school , which he had to drop out of early, he learned the metalworking trade. He worked for more than thirty years as a journeyman, fitter and master. In 1900, Gleichauf was appointed to the management of the trade union of German mechanical engineers and metal workers, to which he had belonged since 1884. In 1902 he became a full-time functionary and in 1906 he took over the management of the trade union. At the same time, he also became a board member of the Berlin branch of the Society for Social Reform and board member of the German Housing Committee. After the end of the First World War , he also became head of the demobilization department for mechanical engineering and chairman of the central council of the Association of German Trade Unions.

From January 1919 to June 1920, Gleichauf was a member of the German Democratic Party for constituency 2 (West Prussia province) in the Weimar National Assembly .

In journalism, Gleichauf drew attention to himself as the head of the organ of the German Metalworkers' Union, the regulator and as the author of a book.

Anton Erkelenz praised Gleichauf, whom he describes as an opponent of Manchester liberalism, in the 1931 International Handbook of Trade Unionism (vol. 1., p. 728) as the born liberal workers leader, who was denied greater influence due to the circumstances of the time.

Fonts

• The history of the Federation of German Trade Unions , Berlin 1907.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Gleichauf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Gleichauf in the database of members of the Reichstag