Fritz Tarnow

"Fritz Tarnow" (April 13, 1880-October 23 1951) was an important Social Democrat trade unionists Reichstag deputy Weimar Republic.

Tarnow was the son of a carpenter, attended the elementary school in Hanover and there was also a carpenter teaching. He then went on hiking in Germany. Tarnow worked until 1906 as a carpenter. In the years 1901 to 1906, he was also a board member of the branches of the freigewerkschaftlichen Wood Workers Association Rastatt Oos, Bonn and Berlin. Then he worked until 1908 as a literary and statistical tools workers in the main office of the Wood Workers Association in Stuttgart. In 1909, he graduated from the central Party School SPD in Berlin. From 1909 to 1919 Tarnow was then head of the Literary Agents (Press Office) in the main office of the Wood Workers Association in Berlin. In addition, he was from 1909 to 1915 community representatives, a member of the District and a board member of the SPD Friedrichshagen (in Berlin).

During the First World War was a war participants. He was severely wounded and carried them lasting damage. During the November revolution Tarnow was a member of the workers and soldiers Council Brandenburg an der Havel. Then he was first secretary and from 1920 to 1933 Chairman of the Wood Workers Association and was one of the leading people in the Federal Bureau of German trade union federation. As such, he was in the second half of the 1920s one of the main proponents of Fritz Naphtali-born concept of economic democracy. He was also temporarily secretary of the International Woodworkers Association. In addition, he was from 1920 to 1933 a member of the provisional Reichswirtschaftsrat. He was also leader of the Society for Social Reform and German Werkbund. 1928, he moved for the SPD in the Reichstag.

After the power Adolf Hitler 1933 and the dismantling of trade unions, he was on 2 May arrested. Hans Staudinger, to Preußenschlag government under Franz von Papen State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Trade, succeeded with a Köpenickiade Tarnows the release from a Gestapo prison. Staudinger was to be a high Prussian officer and ordered the dismissal Tarnows. [ Hans Staudinger:"economic policy in Weimar state. Living memories of a political officials in the Empire and Prussia from 1889 to 1934", ed.] and initiated by Hagen Schulze (Archive of Social History, Supplement 10), published by New Society, Bonn 1982, p. 87 ISBN 3-87831-361-6. After his release, he left the country immediately. First fled Tarnow in the Netherlands, because Denmark and finally, after Sweden. There he tried to rebuild the trade unions in exile. 1946 he returned to West German and 1946 and 1947 was secretary of the Trade Union Confederation Wuerttemberg and Baden. In the years 1947 to 1949 he was secretary of the union council of Bizone and Trizone. 1949 he went into retirement, but was still as a lecturer at the Academy of work Frankfurt.

Literature

* William Heinz Schroeder:"Social Democratic parliamentarians in the German Reich and country days 1867 - 1933. Biographies, Chronicle and electoral documentation. A Manual". Dusseldorf, 1995. ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 S.764f.

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Hyperlinks

* [Http://www.fes.de/archiv/_stichwort/tarnow.htm short biography of the Archives of social democracy]
* [Http://www.gdw-berlin.de/bio/ausgabe_mit.php?id=84 short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center]
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NAME = Tarnow, Fritz
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ABSTRACT = German social democrats, trade unionists and Reichstag member of the Weimar Republic
DATE OF BIRTH = 13 April 1880
BIRTH = Bad Oeynhausen
= 23rd DEATH October 1951
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