The unity

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The unity
Page from The Unity
description Organ of the FVdG
language German
First edition June 19, 1897
attitude August 18, 1914
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 13,500 (1906) copies
Editor-in-chief Max Winkler
editor Fritz hangover
ZDB 515984-2

Unity was a German weekly newspaper and the organ of the Free Association of German Trade Unions .

The unity arose when at the 1st congress of the locally organized trade unions in Germany in Halle the decision was made to publish an organ. The newspaper was supposed to appear biweekly, and initially they agreed on the name Solidarity . The editor was Gustav Keßler . A year later the newspaper appeared weekly and was renamed Die Einigkeit. Organ of the locally organized trade unions in Germany, centralized by shop stewards, and with the name change of the association to FVdG in 1901 finally to Die Einigkeit. Organ of the Free Association of German Trade Unions .

After Gustav Keßler's death in 1904 , Fritz Kater became editor of Einigkeit. Over the years, individual articles caused offense, so some editions were banned under the Criminal Code.

In 1897 the unity had 2,757 subscribers and was able to increase the circulation steadily. In 1900 the circulation was around 10,000 copies and in 1906 the agreement reached a peak of 13,500 copies sold. Due to the steady decline in membership of the FVdG, the number of copies was subsequently reduced again.

In 1911 the FVdG started a second weekly newspaper called Der Pionier , which had a print run of around 4,500 copies.

Both newspapers were banned during World War I and could no longer appear. The last edition of the unity was published on August 8, 1914.

literature

  • Dieter Fricke: The German labor movement 1869-1914: A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Berlin 1976, p. 749.
  • Dirk H. Müller: Trade union assembly democracy and workers' delegates before 1918: A contribution to the history of localism, syndicalism and the emerging council movement . Berlin 1985.
  • Wayne Thorpe: Keeping the Faith: The German Syndicalists in the First World War . Central European History 33 (No. 2), June 2000.

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