Ludwig Rosenberg

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Ludwig Rosenberg (29 June 1903 – 23 October 1977) was a German trade unionist. He was one of the few German Jews to hold high political positions in Germany before Adolf Hitler became chancellor. He supported the social market economy, which clashed with the Marxists in the labor movement.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Charlottenburg, he joined the Young Republicans League at age 18. In 1930 he became a secretary for a Berlin labor union. In June 1933, he fled to the United Kingdom to avoid Nazi arrest. In Britain he worked as a salaried employee and as a journalist.

After World War II and the Holocaust, he returned to Germany in the fall of 1945. He served as chairman of the German Federation of Labor Unions from 1962 to 1969. Rosenberg died of a heart attack in Düsseldorf on 23 October 1977, aged 74.