Union monthly bulletins

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Union monthly bulletins
(GMH)
Cover of the 7/2003 issue
description German magazine
Area of ​​Expertise theoretical discussion body of the DGB on social, political and scientific topics
publishing company 1950–1997: Bund-Verlag , Cologne
1998: Insight-Verlagsges., Düsseldorf
1999–2003: Westdt. Verlag , Wiesbaden
2004: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden (each: Germany)
First edition January 1950
attitude November / December 2004
Frequency of publication initially monthly with 12 issues per year, from 2000 partly double
issues : 2000 = a total of 11 issues, 2001 = 10 issues, 2002 = 9 issues, 2003–2004 = 10 issues each.
Editor-in-chief 1950–1954: Walter Pahl
1954–1957: Richard Becker
1957–1970: Walter Fabian
1971–1981: Gerhard Leminsky
1981–2004: Hans-Otto Hemmer
editor Federal Executive of the DGB
Article archive Online archive of all GMH issues at the FES
ISSN (print) 0016-9447
CODEN GMOND

The trade union monthly books ( GMH ) were a magazine published by the federal board of the German trade union federation (DGB) , which appeared from 1950 to 2004. The GMH were the theoretical discussion body of the DGB on social, political and scientific topics with a focus on “work”, “society”, “social affairs” and trade union politics .

The magazine

Self-image, orientation and topics

In the course of the establishment of the DGB, the unified trade union formulated the will to advertise its concerns in a journalistic way and on the basis of scientific arguments. The DGB wanted to make its "new and progressive views" understandable to a broad public . In 1950, in a foreword to the first issue, Hans Böckler , the first DGB chairman, gave the motto that determined the function of the magazine: “The 'trade union monthly books' [...] should be a discussion organ in which trade unionists and representatives of science, Representatives of our social partner as well as of public life generally have the opportunity to contribute to the solution of the economic and social problems lying before us in a detailed discussion. "

Important topics, some of which were dealt with in special issues, were the history of the workers' and trade union movements, especially in Germany , considerations on the humanization of work , social and economic challenges of German unity , the crisis in the working society, and considerations on the present and future of the welfare state .

The journal presented a wide range of scientific topics, including history , sociology , legal issues , business and economics issues , political science and social science . In this respect, it acted as a "journalistic hinge" between trade unions and academia.

In addition, the magazine regularly published book reviews of new publications in the range of its topics.

Editors-in-chief and publishers

The editors-in-chief were Walter Pahl (1950–1954), Richard Becker (1954–1957), Walter Fabian (1957–1970), Gerhard Leminsky (1971–1981) and Hans-Otto Hemmer (1981–2004).

The magazine has been published by the Bund-Verlag of the DGB for decades since 1950 . In 1998, the Blick publishing company took over the property. From 1999 to 2003 the union monthly publications belonged to Westdeutscher Verlag , and in 2004 to VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften .

Authors

In five and a half decades, several hundred authors - trade unionists, politicians and scientists as well as other public figures - published in the magazine. Most of them belonged to the left-liberal and left-wing political spectrum in the Federal Republic of Germany. Representatives of other political directions also wrote articles for the monthly issue. The spectrum of the GMH ranges from the conservative CDU politician Alfred Dregger to the former president of the BDI Hans-Olaf Henkel to Oskar Lafontaine . Among the scientists there are prominent names such as those of Wolfgang Abendroth , René König and Hans-Ulrich Wehler .

See: Appendix: List of authors of the trade union monthly bulletins

distribution

The magazine was mainly distributed by subscription . Around 1965 the monthly circulation was 8,000 copies.

Predecessor, attitude and successor

The work , the theoretical organ of the General German Trade Union Confederation (ADGB)published monthly from 1924 to 1933, is regarded as the forerunner of the trade union monthly. At the end of 2004, the publisher and publisher justified the discontinuation of the trade union monthly magazines with a "decline in subscriptions that has been ongoing for years". GMH's successor is the online magazine Gegenblende .

Collective publications

  • Wolfgang J. Mommsen et al. a .: On the way to unity. Economy, politics, trade unions in the German-German unification process. Updated articles from “Union Monthly Bullets”. Bund-Verlag , Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7663-2227-3 (collection of articles).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Böckler: Preface , in: GMH , Jg. 1 (1950), H. 1.
  2. ↑ Hans-Otto Hemmer: Farewell to an Institution , in: GMH , Jg. 55 (2004), H. 11-12, S. 644-647, here S. 644 f.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Borsdorf: End bad, all bad , in: GMH , vol. 55 (2004), H. 11-12, p. 656.
  4. ↑ Christoph Butterwegge: Abschied von den GMH , in: GMH , Jg. 55 (2004), H. 11-12, P. 657 f, here P. 658.
  5. ↑ See Alfred Grosser : Die Bonner Demokratie. Germany seen from outside. Karl Rauch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB 451683277 , p. 500: "... the journal trade union monthly magazines , Cologne, which often contains excellent articles on trade union politics or sociology and repeatedly important reviews ...".
  6. ↑ Keywords for his biography on the website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  7. ^ [Hans-] Otto Hemmer: Introductory information on the trade union monthly books .
  8. ^ Description of the journal in the portal EconBiz - Virtual Specialized Library for Economics .
  9. ^ Hans Stadler: The trade unions. A state within a state. JF Lehmanns Verlag , Munich 1965, DNB 454812744 , p. 107 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  10. ↑ Hans-Otto Hemmer: Abschied von einer Institution , in: GMH , Vol. 55 (2004), H. 11-12, P. 644-647, here P. 646.
  11. ^ Information from "einblick" Verlags GmbH about the discontinuation of GMH , GMH , vol. 55 (2004), no. 11-12, p. 641.

Appendix: List of authors of the trade union monthly bulletins

  1. ↑ trade unionists
  2. ^ Politicians
  3. ↑ Scientists
  4. ↑ Other public figures