Ludwig Rosenberg

Ludwig Rosenberg was a German trade unionist and one of the few surviving German Jews who held a prominent position in German politics. Rosenberg was known for his embrace of the social market economy, which put him at odds with party-line Marxists in the labor movement.

Life
Rosenberg was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Charlottenburg in 1903.

Rosenberg joined the Young Republicans' League when he was 18. In 1930, he became a labor union secretary in Berlin. In June of 1933, Rosenberg avoided arrest by the Nazis by fleeing to the United Kingdom. In the UK he worked as a salaried employee and as a journalist. Following World War II and the Holocaust, Rosenberg returned to Germany in the Fall of 1945. He served as the chairman of the German Federation of Labor Unions from 1962 to 1969. Rosenberg died in October of 1977 at age 74 from a heart attack.