German printing association

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The former German Book Printers Association , based in Leipzig , was founded in August 1869 and is the first employers' association in Germany.

history

According to the ad of Fischer & Wittig , the German Book Printers Association in 1914 had its own group at the International Exhibition for Printing Arts and graphic Bugra represented

In response to the book printers' association founded in 1866 (since 1892 the association of German book printers ), on 14./15. August 1869 a total of 87 print shop owners in Mainz established the "German Book Printer Association" as the first business association to "create a constructive counteraction against the corrosive agitation of individual groups of assistants in the book printer world" .

In 1870, the aim is expressly the "order and consolidation of the business relationships between principals and assistants with the assistance of the latter" .

After repeated struggles, a wage tariff and a collective bargaining association consisting of nine districts were reached in 1896. One principal and one assistant representative from each of the nine districts formed a collective bargaining committee and three principals and three assistants formed the collective bargaining office.

The association had a support fund for unemployed assistants, invalidity and health insurance and a proof of work, it set up technical schools and founded an international exchange of samples of all graphic arts and a book trade protection association, which also included Switzerland and especially monitored the credit situation.

Friends of the association founded an anniversary foundation in 1894 to promote the invalids' fund.

In 1900 the number of members was 1000.

Since 1889 the organ of the association has been the "Journal for Germany's Book Printers".

Chairperson

literature

  • Gerstenberg: The more recent development of the German book printing industry, Halle 1892.
  • Heller, Alfred: The German book printer association and its becoming in fifty years (1869-1919). An attempt at a history of its intellectual content, and a contribution to the emergence of commercial organization. On the 50th anniversary of the founding day, Leipzig, Deutscher Buchdrucker-Verein, 1919. online at digitalis.uni-koeln.de (accessed on September 10, 2009)
  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 730. online at zeno.org (accessed on September 10, 2009)
  • Zahn: The organization of principals and assistants in the German printing trade, Leipzig 1890.

Web links

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