Confederation of white-collar workers

The Federation of Employees (GDA) was an umbrella organization of liberal employees from 1920 to 1933 - trade unions in the Weimar Republic .

The GDA was founded on November 21, 1920 at a congress in Magdeburg . It was free, democratic and nationally oriented. Its members were mainly composed of the moderate-medium-sized milieu, which consisted primarily of commercial and office workers. In its statutes, the continuation of an aggressive class policy , the anti-socialist position and the upper middle class character of the employees were emphasized. He was a member of the union ring of German workers ', employees and civil servants' associations . It existed with fluctuating membership numbers (300,357 members in 1921, 275,352 in 1926, 327,742 in 1931) until its dissolution in 1933 at the beginning of National Socialism .

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Priamus: Employees and Democracy. The national liberal white-collar movement in the Weimar Republic . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-913130-2 , ( History and Society 20), (At the same time: Bochum, Diss. 1978).
• Günther Schulz : The employees since the 19th century . Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-53691-5 , ( Encyclopedia of German History 54).
• Hans Speier : The employees before National Socialism. A contribution to the understanding of the German social structure 1918-1933 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 26). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-35979-9 .
• Erich Gierke (ed.): On the history of the employee unions . Berlin 1948, (publication series of the "Freedom" ZDB -ID 2116-7 , issue 1).

Web links

• Trade Union Confederation of Employees (inventory), Federal Archives BArch, RY 52  in the German Digital Library
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the union federation of employees in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schulz 2000, p. 32.