Carl Degenkolb
Carl Degenkolb, and Karl Degenkolb (* 1796 in Plauen, † 1862 in Rottwerndorf ) was a German businessman and politician who lived in a hurry castle and worked. He was 1848/1849 member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and is considered a pioneer in the creation of employee representation as a precursor of today's works. He is the father of legal scholar Henry Degenkolb.
Corporate and political activities
As a son of the entrepreneur Johann Jacob Bodemer Degenkolb took over after his retirement in 1830 Kattunfabrik Bodemer & Co. in a hurry castle. Under his leadership, began the ascent to the leading Kattunhersteller Prussia to about 1860. Degenkolb had great influence in a hurry Castle, next to his business activities, he served on the city council and was chairman of the Eilenburger Commercial Council. With its promotion of machine work, however, he encountered hostility of manual workers, whose spokesmen belonged were Anton Bernhardi, and against his polemic The manual worker and his state of emergency (1847 ), he inveighed in the local press.
1848 Degenkolb was elected from his constituency Delitzsch in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he was a member of the National Liberal Group Casino. There he presented a, together with Mr Wilhelm Adolf Lette, Moritz Veit and Friedrich Gottlieb Becker draft trade regulations, which provided, inter alia, the obligation to set up factory committees, which he voluntarily introduced little in his own business later. On May 20, 1849 Degenkolb laid down his mandate in the National Assembly with further Prussian parliament after the beginning of April all Austrian parliamentarians were eliminated.
Social policy program
Degenkolb's social thought was extremely advanced for its time, his action is referred to as " social reform ". So he brought in his factory, a general prohibition of child labor, which went beyond the 1839 adopted Prussian Child Protection Act. 1847 bought Degenkolb grain in large quantities on and let it work in its own bakery to provide its workforce with cheap bread. 1850 a victualling warehouse has been created for the event of crop failure and related food price rises, which should guarantee workers the affordable supply of basic foodstuffs.
On Degenkolb's instigation the four big textile manufacturer Eilenburg decided on a common practice in creating a Fabrikordung. On 1 July 1850 of an agreement by the four manufacturers was signed. It included, in addition to the construction of factory committees in each of the farms and the creation of a common factory council. This represents the first real worker representation in Germany dar. The alliance of the four industrialist is also referred to as " Eilenburger Agreement". The existing in Degenkolb's factory since 1847 health insurance was extended for joint health insurance and pensions of Eilenburger textile industry.
Factory order
Degenkolb put in his time in the Frankfurt Parliament the minority draft for a general factory order on:
Factory order, type III
Factory committees
§ 42 Each factory chooses a factory committee. The same is:
§ 43 The factory committees have the following powers:
Factory councils
§ 44 For each commercial district, a factory council is elected by the factory committees in which the industries located in the district both by factory owners than by factory workers, as far as matters of the latter come into question, must be represented.
§ 45 The factory rate are to:
This was followed by the paragraph: § 46 Factory arbitration § 47 Circle Commercial Appeal § 50 Central Chamber of Trade § 51 General German Chamber of Trade
Later Degenkolb sat in a hurry castle with other local entrepreneurs his ideas into practice. For four companies, the following rules were used:
§ 1 Each factory chooses a factory committee, consisting of:
§ Select 2 4 factories jointly a factory council, consisting of:
§ 3 The factory committees following powers are enclosed:
§ 4 The Factory Council has the following powers: