Independent trade union opposition
The Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) split off from the Greater Berlin Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) on May 23, 1948 . From its founding until its merger with the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), it had its headquarters in the Tauentzienpalast on Nürnberger Straße .
development
On May 1, 1948, the two trade union organizations had already held separate May celebrations . The division happened in the course of the partition of Berlin , the FDGB was henceforth the union organization of the Soviet occupation zone and the UGO was the umbrella organization of the West Berlin unions.
The UGO later became the West Berlin DGB regional district.
Leading personalities
The West Berlin teachers' union Association of Teachers and Educators (BVL) assumed an important function within the UGO. The first chairman of the UGO was Richard Schröter , who was also the first chairman of the BVL, school councilor in the Charlottenburg district and, from 1952, for the SPD in the German Bundestag . The second chairman was Edmund Oprée , who was also a senior school councilor in the Charlottenburg district.
Individual evidence
- ^ Helga Grebing , Siegfried Heimann : Workers' Movement in Berlin. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-691-8 , p. 112.