Herbert Ehrenberg
Herbert Ehrenberg ( born December 21, 1926 in Kollnischken, district Goldap / East Prussia ) is a German politician ( SPD).
He was from 1976 to 1982 Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs.
Education and work
Ehrenberg joined in 1943 to the military service. Presumably he joined April 20, 1944, the NSDAP. After a prisoner of war in 1945, he worked as a police officer in Bremen, first as a farm laborer in Lower Saxony from 1947 to 1951.
He brought in 1952 by a high school and began a study of the social sciences in the university village Rüstersiel, a district of Wilhelmshaven, then in Göttingen, which he rer a degree in economics in 1955 and 1958 with a science doctorate. pol. with the work Expansive wage policy, a means of income distribution ended. He was then from 1956 assistant and eventually manager of a second medium-sized industrial company.
In 1961, he became a lecturer at the Higher College of the Workers' Welfare Social Work in Dusseldorf. In 1963 he became head of the economics department at the main board of the IG Bau- Minerals under the then chairman Georg Leber. Here he was instrumental in the drafting of the incomes policy concept "wealth creation among employees ." In the time of the grand coalition, he joined in 1968 as Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Economics. After the change of government in 1969, he was Secretary of State in the Federal Chancellery.
Party
Since 1955, Ehrenberg is a member of the SPD. From 1975 to 1984 he was a member of the national executive of the party.
Ehrenberg was one of the founders of the conservative Seeheim Circle within the SPD. He was also involved in the 1985 creation of the Kurt -Schumacher Society. 2009 took Ehrenberg a wing change by co-founded the left-leaning Association of Socialists in the SPD ( AGSS ). The reason he stated that the SPD policies have walked to the right and therefore he will stand with his previous positions today comparatively left.
Member of Parliament
From 1972 to 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag. From 1974 to 1976 he was deputy chairman of here SPD parliamentary group.
Ehrenberg was always directly elected representative of the constituency Wilhelmshaven, last he reached in the general election in 1987 48.1 % of the vote.
Public offices
From 1971 to 1972 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
After the general election in 1976 he was appointed on 16 December 1976 as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the run by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt federal government. With the change of government shortly before the end of the social-liberal coalition Ehrenberg resigned from the cabinet on 29 April 1982. The integration of the economic beneficiaries of services in the retirement fund the legally independent service providers ( artists, publicists ) through the artists' social charge is largely due to (Dieter Lattmann and ) Herbert Ehrenberg.
Honors
Works
- Expansive wage policy, a means of income distribution. Göttingen 1958.
- Trade union incomes policies in the social market economy. In: Contributions to economic and social activities. Festschrift for Bruno Gleitze. Berlin 1968.
- Assets policy for the seventies. Stuttgart; Frankfurt am Main in 1971.
- Between Marx and Market - outline of a infrastructure -oriented distribution and effective economic policy. dtv, 1976, ISBN 3-423-01133-5
- Active wage policy. Viktor Agartz and the union wage policy in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Reinhard Bispinck, Thorsten Schulten, Peeter Raane (ed.): Economic democracy and expansive wage policy. The Modernity of Viktor Agartz. VSA -Verlag Hamburg 2008 ISBN. 978-3-89965-282-6. Pp. 66-81.