Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union

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The horticulture, agriculture and forestry union (GGLF) was a union of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB).

prehistory

German Agricultural Workers Association

On 21/22 In February 1909, the Association of Agricultural, Forest and Vineyard Workers in Germany was founded in Berlin and renamed the German Agricultural Workers Association (DLV) in 1912. The agricultural, forest and vineyard workers were addressed as members. From 1909 to 1933 Georg Schmidt (politician, 1875) was the chairman of the German Agricultural Workers' Association .

In competition with other agricultural workers' organizations, the DLV was able to assert itself as the leading union in the industry in the Weimar Republic . After the National Socialists seized power , the DLV was banned on May 2, 1933.

The DLV was the editor of several magazines; including the following title:

  • The agricultural and forest worker
  • The farm worker
  • Youth farm workers.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , separate agricultural workers' unions were formed in the individual occupation zones .

The first zone-wide merger was the establishment of the industrial union for agriculture and forestry in the Soviet occupation zone on June 16, 1946 in Halle (Saale) . After the DC circuit that union was a union land, food goods and forestry (GLNF) in the East part of the FDGB . Due to the division of Germany , the formation of a free all-German trade union was only possible after reunification .

In 1946, state unions were formed in the American and French zones. In the French zone, the name was the Land Workers' Association for Rhineland-Palatinate. In the British zone of occupation on 29/30. March 1947 the union for horticulture, agriculture and forestry was founded in Hanover.

History of the GGLF

On the Association Day on 30./31. July 1949 in Hannoversch Münden the horticulture, agriculture and forestry union was formed as a merger of the agricultural workers' unions of the three western zones. The GGLF is one of the founding trade unions of the German Federation of Trade Unions, which took part in the DGB founding congress from 12.-14. Formed October 1949 in Munich.

The GGLF was the publisher of the magazine Der Säemann .

Following the principle of the unified trade union , the GGLF claimed to be the only agricultural union in the DGB. However, there were conflicts with the ÖTV trade union in the delimitation, which then settled an arbitration ruling by the DGB on May 15, 1950. In addition, there were delimitation conflicts with the German Employees' Union and the General Milk Association.

reunion

After the fall of the Wall , preparations were made to merge the unions in East and West. On January 26, 1990, a cooperation agreement between GGLF and GLNF was concluded. However, there was no merger. On 23/24 In July 1990 the GGLF main committee decided to extend the scope to the territory of the former GDR. On September 22nd, 1990, the 1st Extraordinary Trade Union Day of the GGLF and at the same time a central delegation conference of the GLNF took place, at which the GLNF dissolved. The former GLNF members became members of the GGLF or (the members from the food industry) the NGG .

With the merger, the number of members tripled. In 1990 it had around 44,000 members.

resolution

The introduction of the capitalist mode of production led to massive structural changes, especially in agriculture. The share of those employed in agriculture, which was twice as high in the GDR as in the west, fell rapidly. As a result, the number of members of the GGLF collapsed, which led to financial problems. In 1995 it dissolved itself and joined IG Bau-Steine-Erden on January 1, 1996 . Since then this has been called IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt .

Chairwoman of the Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union

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