Trade, Banking and Insurance Union
The trade union trade, banks and insurance (HBV) was a union within the German trade union federation (DGB) based in Düsseldorf for employees in retail and wholesale , banks , insurance and other service industries . It was organized in largely independent state and district associations. "Outlook" was the membership magazine.
The union was founded in Königswinter in September 1949 and was initially strongly supported by the DGB. On September 30, 1950, the HBV had 55,221 members, on December 31, 1989 407,326, most recently around 457,000. In 2001 HBV merged with ÖTV , DPG , IG Medien and DAG in the ver.di (United Service Union ) union with initially 2.8 million members.
Chairperson
- 1948–1961: Wilhelm Pawlik
- 1961–1965: Werner Ziemann
- 1965–1980: Heinz Vietheer
- 1980–1988: Günter Volkmar
- 1988–1993: Lorenz Schwegler
- 1993-2001: Margret Mönig-Raane
Union days
- Merger Union Day, 1949, Königswinter
- 2. Ordinary Trade Union Day, 1951, Cologne
- 3. Ordinary Trade Union Day, 1955, Frankfurt / Main
- 4. Ordinary Trade Union Day, 1958, Hanover
- 5. Ordinary Union Day, 1961, Berlin
- 6. Ordinary Union Day, 1964, Nuremberg
- 7. Ordinary Union Day, 1968, Bremen
- 8. Ordinary Union Day, 1972, Dortmund
- 9. Ordinary Trade Union Day, 1976, Saarbrücken
- 10. Ordinary Union Day, 1980, Wiesbaden
- 11. Ordinary Union Day, 1984, Mannheim
- 1. extraordinary Union Day 1990, Bonn
- 12. Ordinary Union Day, 1988, Essen
- 13. Ordinary Union Day, 1992, Mainz
- 14. Ordinary Union Day, 1995, Bremen
- 15. Ordinary Union Day, 1998, Bremen
- 2. extraordinary Union Day, 1999, Würzburg
- 3. extraordinary Union Day, 2000, Magdeburg
- 4. extraordinary Union Day (Merger Congress), 2001, Berlin
literature
- Ingrid Wölk: Industrial Union or Professional Organization? The organizational dispute over the employees after 1945 and the formation of the HBV union, Marburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-921630-88-4
- Harald Schlüter: A brave step - the establishment of the trade union trade, banks and insurance in Hamburg, Hamburg 1988, publisher: local administration HBV Hamburg
- The "little Benjamin" The foundation of the HBV union and the development up to 1987 in: Claus Eilrich / Hans Otto Hemmer (eds.): The new majority - picture reading book - employees . Dietz, Berlin; Bonn 1988, pp. 46-121, ISBN 3-8012-0133-3