Willy Buschak
Willy Buschak (born June 23, 1951 ) is a German historian and trade unionist .
life and work
Buschak studied history and philosophy in Bochum and received his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the London office . He also wrote several studies on the history of the German trade unions from the imperial era to the present day.
He joined the food-pleasure-restaurants union and served on its main board from 1987 to 1991. From there he moved to the European Trade Union Confederation . Initially as Deputy Director and after the death of his predecessor Raymond-Pierre Bodin , he was Director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin from 2003 until he was replaced in this position by Jorma Karppinnen in 2005 . Buschak continued to serve as deputy director until he left the foundation in March 2008 after the end of his six-year term. He was succeeded by Erika Mezger . Buschak has been responsible for questions of principle in the DGB district of Saxony in Dresden since 2009 .
Publications
- The United States of Europe is our destination. Labor Movement and Europe in the Early 20th Century . Klartext, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-0751-5 .
- Franz Josef Furtwängler : trade unionist, traveler to India, resistance fighter. A political biography. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0387-6 .
- “The cloud of hope flew quickly above us”. Bibliography of German-language publications on the Spanish Civil War . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-636-2 .
- Edo Fimmen - The beautiful dream of Europe and globalization. A biography . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-027-6 .
- "Work in the smallest circle". Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism . Results Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-87916-017-1 .
- The history of the Maggi workers 1887–1950 . Results Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-925622-49-7 .
- From people who wanted to live like people. The history of the food-pleasure-restaurants union and its predecessors . Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0922-6 .
- The London office. European left socialists in the interwar period . Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 90-6861-001-5 .
- Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche 1825-1905, a biography with selected speeches and writings . Edited by the Heinrich-Kaufmann -Stiftung and the food-pleasure-restaurants union . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-738-64125-7 .
- Willy Buschak: The Christian trade unionist Reimer Mager . In: Work in the smallest circle: Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism . Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1206-9 , p. 429-431 .
- Labor Movement and Europe in the Early 20th Century . Klartext, Essen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8375-1870-2 .
- Willy Buschak, The European Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Associations (PDF; 262 kB) in: "European Trade Union Organizations - Holdings in the Archive of Social Democracy and in the Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation", ed. for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation by U. Optenhögel, M. Schneider, R. Zimmermann, Bonn, 2003, pp. 9-19
- Willy Buschak: The socialist and communist labor movement in the Weimar Republic. In: Thomas Meyer , Susanne Miller , Joachim Rohlfes (Hrsg.): History of the German workers' movement. Study and work book. Presentation - Chronologies - Documents. Volume 2: (A15-A39). (= Federal Agency for Political Education. Series of publications. Vol. 207, Part 2). Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-923423-11-X , pp. 499–541, here pp. 506 f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Willy Buschak in the catalog of the German National Library
- Curriculum vitae at the European Foundation ( Memento from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- CV at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Willy Buschak (2013): Is the labor movement the real founder of Europe? von Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buschak, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1951 |