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28 June 1916 Berlin Strike
A labour strike took place in Germany on 28 June 1916. This was the first industrial action of national significance in Germany during the First World War. It was held to protest the trial of anti-war socialist campaigner Karl Liebknecht. The strike was not supported by the leadership of the German trade unions, who had agreed not to strike during the war as part of the ''Burgfriedenspolitik'', but was organised by a number of junior officials who later became known as the Revolutionary Stewards. The strike was joined by 55,000 Berlin workers from at least 35 factories and several thousand workers from Stuttgart, Bremen, Braunschweig and Essen. Following the strike, wages fell and support for the Stewards declined. Later in the war, the Stewards organised larger strikes, in protest at the continuation of the conflict and cuts in food rations. Background Germany had been fighting the First World War since 1914. Food shortages, caused by the Allied naval blockade, had led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P046271, Berlin, Kundgebung Im Tiergarten, Liebknecht
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War Bonds
War bonds (sometimes referred to as Victory bonds, particularly in propaganda) are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war without raising taxes to an unpopular level. They are also a means to control inflation by removing money from circulation in a stimulated wartime economy. War bonds are either retail bonds marketed directly to the public or wholesale bonds traded on a stock market. Exhortations to buy war bonds have often been accompanied by appeals to patriotism and conscience. Retail war bonds, like other retail bonds, tend to have a yield which is below that offered by the market and are often made available in a wide range of denominations to make them affordable for all citizens. Before World War I Governments throughout history have needed to borrow money to fight wars. Traditionally they dealt with a small group of rich financiers such as Jakob Fugger and Nathan Rothschild, but no particular disti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 In Germany
Events in the year 1916 in Germany. Incumbents National level * Kaiser – Wilhelm II * Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg State level Kingdoms * King of Bavaria – Ludwig III of Bavaria * King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II * King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony * King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg Grand Duchies * Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II * Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick VI * Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest Principalities * Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg * Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe * Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Labor Disputes And Strikes
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * February 9 – 6.00 p.m. &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany
The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, USPD) was a short-lived political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The organization was established in 1917 as the result of a split of anti-war members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), from the left of the party as well as the centre and the right. The organization attempted to chart a course between electorally oriented reformism on the one hand and Bolshevist revolutionism on the other. The organization was terminated in 1931 through merger with the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). Organizational history Formation On 21 December 1915, several SPD members in the Reichstag, the German parliament, voted against the authorization of further credits to finance World War I, an incident that emphasized existing tensions between the party's leadership and the pacifists surrounding Hugo Haase and ultim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepp Oerter
Sepp Oerter (24 September 1870 – 14 December 1928) was a German politician and journalist. As a young man he was an activist member of various anarchist groups. He later moved over to socialist groupings and parties, including the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and, after the SPD split, the anti-war Independent Social Democratic Party (''"Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands"'' / USPD). During and directly after the revolution, for two months during the first half of 1919 and then for more than a year during 1920/21, he served as head of the regional government / Minister-president in the Free State of Braunschweig (Brunswick). By the time of his death he had broken with the political left and joined the National Socialists. Biography Provenance and early years Josef "Sepp" Oerter was born in Straubing, the small town at the heart of the fertile Gäuboden region of Lower Bavaria, to the north-east of Munich. His father was a Bavarian "Feldwebel" (juni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner Maschinenbau
Berliner Maschinenbau AG was a German manufacturer of locomotives. The factory was founded by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff on 3 October 1852 as ''Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff'' in Berlin. History The factory was founded on 3 October 1852 as ''Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff'' in Berlin by Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff. After a fire in 1860 and the expansion of the factory, they started to manufacture turntables, water systems and turnouts for several railway companies. The first locomotive built by the firm was delivered on 1 February 1867 to the Lower Silesian-Mark Railway (''Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn'' or NME). On 1 July 1870 the firm was turned into a share company and renamed the ''Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft vormals L. Schwartzkopff, Berlin''. In 1897 a second factory was opened in Wildau. From 1899 the company also manufactured Linotype machines for the Mergenthaler factory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Löwe Automobil
Löwe Automobil is a German automotive part manufacturer that specializes in various car sensors. It is a brand of LASPA Berlin. Products Löwe Automobil products include mass flow sensors, fuel pressure regulators, oxygen sensors, universal oxygen sensors, idle speed controllers, and throttle position sensors. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are the main focus of Löwe Automobil's airflow meter production. Löwe Automobil mass airflow meters are sold all over the world. Spelling Because of the German letter " ö" in the word Löwe Löwe or Loewe (German for "lion") may refer to: People *Loewe (surname) Business *Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker *Loewe (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand *Löwe Automobi ... ( German for ''lion''), the company's name is a matter of some confusion — where both Lowe Automobil and Loewe Automobile are acceptable variations of the Anglicized spelling. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Borsig
Ernst August Paul Borsig (13 September 1869 in Berlin-Moabit – 6 January 1933 in Gut Groß Behnitz, Brandenburg) was a German industrialist.Henry Ashby Turner : The big entrepreneurs and the rise of Hitler , Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 357 f. Biography Life and career Borsig graduated from high school in Berlin in 1889, and then completed technical training at the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association He then studied at the University of Bonn and the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn. Ernst Borsig played a major role in the relocation of the Moabit workshops to Berlin-Tegel. He visited a number of well-known local and foreign factories, and sent some of his technical officials on extensive study trips to England and America. This resulted in the drafts for the new plant, which after its completion in 1898, became a landmark in Berlin. In 1898, Borsig married Margarete Gründler. They had four children to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Müller (socialist)
Richard Müller (9 December 1880 – 11 May 1943) was a German socialist, metal worker, union shop steward, and later historian. Trained as a lathe-operator, Müller later became an industrial unionist and organizer of mass-strikes against World War I. In 1918 he was a leading figure of the council movement in the German Revolution. In the 1920s he wrote a three-volume history of the German Revolution. Early life Born in a small village called Weira in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in what today is the German state of Thuringia, Müller left home and started working in the metal-industry after his father died in 1896. He became a lathe operator and around 1906 a member of the Deutscher Metallarbeiter-Verband (DMV), the German metalworkers union. Around the same time he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands - SPD) which by then was the biggest socialist party in Europe. World War I and the Anti-War Moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Metal Workers' Union
The German Metal Workers' Union (german: Deutscher Metallarbeiter-Verband, abbreviated DMV) was a German industrial union for metalworkers formed in 1891 and dissolved after the Nazis' accession to power in 1933. History German metalworkers started to organize in labor unions in 1868. In 1891, at a congress in Frankfurt from June 1 to June 6, a number of separate unions joined forces to form a single federation with 23,200 members. The DMV was the first industrial union in the country. It was headquartered in Stuttgart. It took over publication of the already extant newspaper ''Deutsche Metall-Arbeiter-Zeitung''. At first, it faced opposition from the established craft unions. Its membership reached 50,000 by 1896, 100,000 in 1901, and over 500,000 by 1913. Its growth was slowed by its failure to gain recognition by employers in large plants in heavy industry until World War I. During World War I, the DMV, like the rest of the socialist labor movement, did not oppose the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shop Steward
A union representative, union steward, or shop steward is an employee of an organization or company who represents and defends the interests of their fellow employees as a labor union member and official. Rank-and-file members of the union hold this position voluntarily (through democratic election by fellow workers or sometimes by appointment of a higher union body) while maintaining their role as an employee of the firm. As a result, the union steward becomes a significant link and conduit of information between the union leadership and rank-and-file workers. Duties The duties of a union steward vary according to each labor union's constitutional mandate for the position. In general, most union stewards perform the following functions: *Monitor and enforce the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement (labor contract) to ensure both the firm and union worker are not violating the terms of the agreement. *Ensure that the firm is in compliance with all federal, state a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
