Wilhelm Jansson

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Wilhelm Jansson (born May 29, 1877 in Stockholm ; died August 1, 1923 there ) was a Swedish-German trade unionist .

Life

Wilhelm Jansson worked as a gardener in Hamburg since 1896 . He became a member of the General German Gardeners Association, in which employers and employees were initially organized. In 1897 he became a member of the association committee and in 1902 a member of the main board and editor of the association body. In 1904 the association joined the general commission of the trade unions in Germany , and in 1905 Jansson became second full-time editor of Paul Umbreit's correspondence newspaper . Jansson belonged to the revisionist wing of the SPD . He also wrote in the socialist monthly , in the social democratic theory journal Die Neue Zeit and in social practice articles on general political and trade union issues and, as a correspondent for the Swedish party newspaper Social-Demokrats, built the bridge to social democracy in Scandinavia .

Jansson was an advocate of the Burgfried and the necessity of a German victory peace in the interests of the working class within the German social democracy during the First World War . He confirmed this view with the compilation of workers' interests and the outcome of the war published in 1915 .

In 1917 he accompanied the first group of Russian exiles on their “extraterritorial” train journey from Switzerland through the German Reich to Sweden as a representative of the general commission of the German trade unions with the approval of the German Foreign Ministry from Gottmadingen or Stuttgart . Their spokesman, Lenin, was an opponent of the Social Democrats' truce policy and could therefore easily abide by the ban on contact agreed with the Foreign Ministry, so that there was no political conversation with Jansson or with other leaders of the German Social Democrats.

From 1919 to 1921 Jansson was the social attaché of the Swedish legation in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the situation of working gardeners in Germany. Based on surveys of the general German Gardeners Association and using older material. Publishing bookstore of the General German Gardeners Association, 1905.
  • The conditions in German factory housing: results of a survey organized by the commission for the elimination of the compulsory board and lodging. Verl. The Generalkomm. of the trade unions of Germany, Berlin 1910.
  • (Ed.): Workers' interests and war outcome; a union war book . Berlin: A. Baumeister, 1915.
  • with Heinrich Cunow ; Otto Hue ; Max Schippel (Ed.): Monopoly question and the working class . Berlin: Vorwärts bookstore, 1917.
  • Revolution and socialism . Berlin Working Group for Civic and Economic Education [approx. 1918].
  • Joint work in the new German economic life. Berlin 1919.

literature

  • Jansson, Wilhelm in the German biography
  • Martin Graß: Wilhelm Janssons arkiv , at Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek (sv)
  • Jan Peters : Labor movement and the German-Swedish neighborhood. On the intermediary function of Wilhelm Jansson (1877–1923). In: Helmut Müssener (Ed.): Not only Strindberg: cultural and literary relations between Sweden and Germany 1870-1933. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1979, pp. 181-190.
  • Martin Graß: Peace Activity and Neutrality. Scandinavian social democracy and neutral cooperation in the war, August 1914 to February 1917. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad-Godesberg 1975.
  • Ludwig Heyde (Ed.): International concise dictionary of the trade union system. Volume 2. Berlin 1930, p. 862.
  • Ludwig Heyde: Wilhelm Jansson. In: Social Practice and Archives for People's Welfare, 1923, Col. 760 f.
  • Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Hanover 1960, p. 127.
  • Heinz Josef Varain: Free trade unions, social democracy and the state: the policy of the General Commission under the leadership of Carl Legiens (1890-1920). Droste, Düsseldorf 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Different year of birth 1872 in the German biography
  2. ↑ Werner Hahlweg (ed.): Lenin's return to Russia 1917: The German files. Brill, Leiden 1957, p. 22, p. 81, p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Jansson, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-German trade unionists
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1923
Place of death Stockholm