IG printing and paper

The industrial union printing and paper was a union of the German trade union federation (DGB) with seat in Stuttgart .

It was founded on the Association Day on November 29, 1948 in Munich . The first board of directors began its work on January 1, 1949. The in September 1950 when Verbandstag in Freiburg adopted statutes looked as organs before the vertical structure in the local association board, district board, Gauvorstand, Corporate Executive, Central Committee and the Verbandstag is the highest authority. The area of the then Federal Republic including West Berlin was determined as the provisional organizational area. On September 30, 1950 it had 129,089 members, at the end of 1989 there were 182,150 members. From 1952 the highest organ was called the Union Day.

IG Druck und Papier represented the book printing , type foundry , flat printing , gravure printing , image production , bookbinding and paper processing industries . From 1951 the specialist group of journalists , which from 1960 carried the name Deutsche Journalisten-Union , belonged to it and from 1973 the Association of German Writers (VS). For organized journalists, the union published the magazine die feder from 1952, which is now called M - People Make Media . The main organ is the DRUCK + PAPIER magazine , which still exists today for members in the printing, paper, cardboard and plastics processing industries.

In April 1989 - before German reunification - the IG Druck und Papier merged with the art union to form the new IG Medien - Printing and Paper, Journalism and Art . This in turn went into 2001 in the United Service Union (ver.di).

With the support of IG Druck und Papier, the Heinze women from Gelsenkirchen fought for the same wages as their male colleagues before the Federal Labor Court in Kassel. The women's secretary on the main board, Gisela Kessler , organized nationwide solidarity campaigns to support women from 1979 to 1981.

Chairperson

1949–1951: Christian Fette
1951–1962: Heinrich Hansen
1962–1968: Heinrich Bruns (born April 26, 1907; † March 15, 1968)
1968 - Werner Schmidt , acting chairman
1968–1983: Leonhard Mahlein
1983–1989: Erwin Ferlemann

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Articles of Association of the Printing and Paper Industry Union 1950 (PDF file; 1.7 MB)
↑ Articles of Association, adopted in 1952 at the Second Ordinary Association Day in Hamburg (PDF file; 1.3 MB)

[1] Articles of Association of the Printing and Paper Industry Union 1950 (PDF file; 1.7 MB)

[2] Articles of Association, adopted in 1952 at the Second Ordinary Association Day in Hamburg (PDF file; 1.3 MB)