German Transport Workers Association

Colored postcard from around 1910 with dock workers (left), carters (right) and a tram in the background

Former association house of the German Transport Association in Berlin , built 1927–32 by Max Taut

The German Transport Workers Association (DTV) (from 1923 the German Transport Association ) was an important German trade union during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic . It was founded in 1897 as the "Central Association of Trade, Transport and Transport Workers in Germany" and renamed the German Transport Workers' Association in 1907.

In 1910 the Association of Dock Workers in Germany (founded in 1891) and the Central Association of Seafaring Workers in Germany (founded in 1898) joined the DTV, from 1908 to 1916 the Association of Railway Workers in Germany also temporarily formed a section within the DTV. On the part of the state, the "Reich Section of Railway Workers" of the association in the German Empire was classified as hostile to the state. The reference to the association's magazine "Weckruf der Eisenbahner" (wake-up call of the railway workers) was already considered an indication, which inevitably resulted in dismissal . The same applied to other publications of the association.

After the First World War , the Central Association of German Post and Telegraph Employees and the General German Postal Union joined the DTV. Not least thanks to these associations, the number of members of the DTV rose from 230,000 in 1913 to around 579,000 in 1921, making it the second largest union in Germany.

In order to give expression to the growing number of branches represented in it, the DTV was renamed the Deutscher Verkehrsbund in 1923 . In 1930 he merged with three other unions to form the General Association of Workers in Public Enterprises and the Movement of People and Goods , which was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1933 and is considered to be the forerunner of the later trade union ÖTV (today Verdi ).

literature

German Transport Workers Association, 25 years of trade union work , publisher: Courier, Berlin, 1922.
Rüdiger Zimmermann : 100 years of ÖTV. Vol. 1 History, Vol. 2 Biographies, Union-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1996.

Individual evidence

↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 13, 1910, No. 34. Announcement No. 581, p. 337.
↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 31, 1910, No. 49. Announcement No. 777, p. 443.
↑ Mark Seumer: From the cleaning industry for building cleaning trade: the development of the industrial cleaning of buildings in Germany (1878 until 1990) . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-515-07372-1 , p. 42 ( google.de [accessed on November 28, 2017]).
^ Michael Grüttner : The world of work at the water's edge: Social history of the Hamburg port workers 1886–1914 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, ISBN 978-3-647-35722-5 , pp. 230 ( google.de [accessed on November 28, 2017]).

[1] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 13, 1910, No. 34. Announcement No. 581, p. 337.

[2] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 31, 1910, No. 49. Announcement No. 777, p. 443.

[3] Mark Seumer: From the cleaning industry for building cleaning trade: the development of the industrial cleaning of buildings in Germany (1878 until 1990) . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-515-07372-1 , p. 42 ( google.de [accessed on November 28, 2017]).

[4] Michael Grüttner : The world of work at the water's edge: Social history of the Hamburg port workers 1886–1914 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, ISBN 978-3-647-35722-5 , pp. 230 ( google.de [accessed on November 28, 2017]).