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Jörg Hofmann (trade Unionist)
Jörg Hofmann (born 3 December 1955) is a German trade union leader. Born in Berglen, Oppelsbohm, Hofmann studied agriculture, then went to university to study economics. He found work as a researcher at the Institute for Industrial Management at the University of Hohenheim. In 1982, he moved to work for the trade union IG Metall as an expert on new technologies. In 1987, Hofmann became secretary of IG Metall's Stuttgart office, also establishing a new office in Dresden after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1999, he became the union's director for Baden-Württemberg, then vice-president of the union in 2013, and president in 2015. The following year, he also became president of the IndustriALL Global Union. Under his leadership, IG Metall negotiated a major collective agreement for metal and electrical workers, giving them more rights to determine their working hours. Hofmann has also sat on various government committees on the future of work, globalisation, and digitalisati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Hofmann
Jörg or Joerg () is a German name, equivalent to George (given name), George in English. * Jörg Bergmeister (born 1976), German race car driver * Jörg Fisch (1947–2024), Swiss historian * Jörg Frischmann, German Paralympian athlete * Jörg Haider (1950–2008), Austrian politician * :de:Jörg Andrees Elten, Jörg Andrees Elten (also Swami Satyananda; 1927–2017), German journalist and writer, follower of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), Osho * Jörg Kachelmann (born 1958), Swiss journalist and presenter * Joerg Kalt (1967–2007), Austrian film director and cinematographer * Jörg Meuthen (born 1961), German politician * Jörg Nobis (born 1975), German politician * Jörg Pilawa (born 1965), German television presenter * Joerg Rieger (born 1963), American professor * Jörg Schneider (actor) (1935–2015), Swiss actor See also * *Jörgen (other) *Joerg Peninsula of Graham Land, Antarctica *W. L. G. Joerg (1885–1952), American geographer and in particular expert in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berglen
Berglen is a municipality in the district of Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Geographical location The community Berglen is located about 25 kilometers east of Stuttgart in 300 to 450 meters altitude in the Keuper hill landscape '' Berglen ''. Constituent communities The municipality Berglen consists of the following nine districts: Bretzenacker, Hößlinswart, Barrenhardt, Öschelbronn, Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach near Winnenden, Rettersburg, Steinach, Vorderweißbuch. Space division Total 2587 ha * 879 ha = 34,0 % forest * 1352ha = 52,3 % agriculture * 10 ha = 0,4 % recovery area * 8 ha = 0,3 % water * 162 ha = 6,1 % buildings * 158 ha = 6,1 % traffic area * 17 ha = 0,7 % others . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Hohenheim
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IG Metall
IG Metall (; IGM; German: , "Industrial Union of Metalworkers'") is the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany, making it the country's largest union as well as Europe's largest industrial union. Analysts of German labor relations consider it a major trend-setter in national bargaining. IG Metall and ver.di together account for around 15 percent of the German workforce, and other sectors tend to broadly follow their agreements. History The name IG Metall refers to the union's metalworkers roots dating back to the start of unions in imperial Germany in the 1890s, though this formal organization was founded post-war in 1949. Wikipedia DE Over the years the union has taken on representation in industries beyond mining of minerals to include manufacturing and industrial production, machinists, printing industry, which includes modern automobile manufacturing and steel production as part of its blue-collar root, but also includes more white-collar sectors such as electrical a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 632,865 as of 2022, making it the list of cities in Germany by population, sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people in Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, its metropolitan area, making it the metropolitan regions in Germany, fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, top 5 Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne), and the third-most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Saxony, Coswig, Radeberg, and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Dresden Basin, Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated, area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East Germany, East German citizens from Emigration from the Eastern Bloc, fleeing to the West. The Eastern Bloc, Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from "Fascist (insult), fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people" from building a Communism, communist state in the GDR. The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the ''Anti-Fascist Protection Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a total area of nearly , it is the third-largest German state by both List of German states by area, area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and List of German states by population, population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). The List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Konstanz, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. Modern Baden-Württemberg includes the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndustriALL Global Union
IndustriALL Global Union is a global union federation, founded in Copenhagen on 19 June 2012. IndustriALL Global Union represents more than 50 million working people in more than 140 countries, working across the supply chains in mining, energy and manufacturing sectors at the global level. History The IndustriALL Global Union formed as the result of a merger between three former global union federations: * IMF, International Metalworkers' Federation * ICEM, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions * ITGLWF, International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation European affiliates of IndustriALL Global Union are members of the IndustriAll – European Trade Union. IndustriALL is an international union confederation made up of approximately 800 unions in 140 countries. The organisation's goals are: *Defend workers' rights *Build union power *Confront global capital *Fight precarious work *Promote sustainable industrial policy A maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Benner
Christiane Benner (born 9 February 1968 in Aachen) is a German sociologist and trade union official. In 2023, she became the first woman to hold the post of First Chairwoman of Europe's largest industrial union, IG Metall (the German metalworkers union). After being elected to the union leadership in 2015, she is the first woman to do so in the union's 125-year history. Early life and education Benner was born in the West German town of Aachen and raised by a single mother. After completing her secondary education in Bensheim in 1987, she trained as a foreign language secretary at Carl Schenck AG (part of the Dürr Group since 2000), where she remained until 1993. Benner then studied sociology at University of Marburg and at the University of Chicago in North Manchester, Indiana, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. She completed her studies at the University of Frankfurt with a diploma. Her studies were financially supported by the Hans Böckler Foundation (trade union affiliat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold Huber
Berthold Huber (born 15 February 1950) is a German former trade union leader. Born on 15 February 1950 in Ulm, Huber was apprenticed as a toolmaker, and worked at Kässbohrer. He joined IG Metall, and in 1978 he became head of the Kässbohrer works council in part to his association with the predecessor organization to the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany, the Communist Workers Union of Germany. In the mid-1980s, he studied philosophy, politics, and history at Frankfurt University, but left without completing his degree. He began working full-time for the union in 1990, and in 1991 became director of its president's office. In 1998, he became the director of its Baden-Wuerttemberg region, and was elected as the union's vice president in 2003. He became president of the union in 2007, and was also elected as president of the International Metalworkers' Federation, then moving to its successor, the IndustriALL Global Union. In 2012, Huber retired from IG Metall, becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Nilsson
Marie Nilsson (born 20 February 1964) is a Swedish trade union leader. Born in Stenungsund, in 1982, Nilsson became a technician for the chemical company Borealis. She was elected to the board of the Swedish Industrial Union in 2000. This became part of IF Metall in 2006, and Nilsson remained on the board. She was elected as vice-president of the union in 2012, for the first time becoming a full-time trade union official. She was subsequently elected to the board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In 2017, Nilsson was elected as president of IF Metall, the first woman to hold the post. She came to international notice in leading a dispute with Elon Musk and Tesla, Inc. over the role of unions in the Swedish economic model. In 2023, she won election as president of the IndustriALL Global Union IndustriALL Global Union is a global union federation, founded in Copenhagen on 19 June 2012. IndustriALL Global Union represents more than 50 million working people in more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
