Oskar Allmann

Emil Oskar Eduard Karl Allmann (27 June 1868 – 1940) was a German trade unionist.

Biography

Born in Buttelstedt, Allmann worked as a baker, and joined the Union of Bakers and Related Workers of Germany. He became secretary of the union's control commission in 1889, and chairman of its Hamburg branch the following year.[1] In 1895, he was elected as president of the union. In 1907, he took the union into a merger which formed the Central Union of Bakers and Confectioners, remaining president of the new union. That year, he also led the formation of the International Federation of Bakers, Pastry Cooks and Allied Workers' Associations, becoming its general secretary.[2]

Allmann stood down from his trade union posts in 1918,[2] facing opposition from within the union for having been too supportive of the conduct of World War I. He remained involved with the trade union movement until 1923, when he supported a three-shift baking system which the union opposed.[1] In 1930, his Geschichte der deutschen Bäcker- und Konditoren-bewegung was published.

References

  1. ^ a b Buschak, Willy (1985). Von Menschen, die wie Menschen leben wollten. Bund-Verlag. ISBN 9783766309228.
  2. ^ a b Schönhoven, Klaus (1985). Die Gewerkschaften in Weltkrieg und Revolution 1914-1919. Bund-Verlag. p. 802. ISBN 3766309005.
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