Willy Danube

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Hermann Willy Donau (born June 23, 1885 in Leutzsch , † April 28, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist and senior employee of the GDR's Ministry of Labor and Health .

Life

Danube attended high school and trade school of the Polytechnic Society with a degree in precision mechanics . 1904–1906 he worked in the metal industry and attended courses in the workers' education school and the free university in Berlin, in 1904 he joined the SPD and went to Paris from 1906–1914 as a correspondent for various German, Austrian and Swiss trade union newspapers and as an employee of social democratic party newspapers . 1916–1920 he worked for the trade union movement in Nuremberg , at the end of 1918 adviser for works council issues and arbitration in the social and economic administration of the demobilization center in Northern Bavaria and from March to October 1920 political editor at the Franconian daily mail .

In October 1920 he became a government councilor in the Reich Office for Employment Services and in the Reich Labor Administration , responsible for fundamental issues relating to employment services. On May 1, 1925, he succeeded Alexander Schlicke as director of the Berlin branch office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and took over the management of the journal Internationale Rundschau der Arbeit . In 1933 he was dismissed due to the law to restore the civil service and fled to Geneva at the end of 1933 , where he headed the ILO's department for German-language ILO publications until autumn 1939 and again took over the main editorial office of the International Review of Work . In 1939 he went to Canada for the ILO, but returned to Germany and in 1941 became a permanent employee of the magazine “ Soziale Praxis ” as well as a translator in the international department of the Ergonomics Institute (AWI) of the German Labor Front .

In 1945 he became a member of the FDGB's federal executive committee in Berlin , responsible for social policy information abroad, on October 1, 1945, head of division in the German central administration for industry (legal department, labor law issues ) and joined the SED in 1946. On July 15, 1946, he became head of the section for counting and controlling the workforce and recording the able-bodied population (in cities and in rural areas) in the German Administration for Labor and Social Welfare , and became its third vice-president in 1947 as successor to Albert Voss has been.

In 1949 he moved to the Ministry of Labor and Health of the GDR under Luitpold Steidle (CDU) and from January 1, 1950 headed the finance and statistics department in the central board of social insurance .

Sources and literature

  • SAPMO Federal Archive DY 34/28189 (cadre file at FDGB).
  • Lutz Viehweger: The International Labor Organization and Germany 1919 to 1933. Dissertation . Düsseldorf 2013. (online)

Web links

  • Willy Donau's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Labor Ministry 1933–1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin-Zehlendorf registry office : death register . No. 947/1959.
personal data
SURNAME Danube, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danube, Hermann Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and social politicians
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutzsch
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1959
Place of death Berlin