Association of German Book Printers

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Association of German Book Printers, Dudenstr. 10, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Excerpt from the first page of the Correspondent's issue of January 1, 1863. Johannes Gutenberg is standing on the globe, a glowing torch in his hand
Board of the Book Printers' Union in 1916

The Association of German Book Printers was a German trade union in the graphic industry from 1866 to 1933 . It is considered to be the oldest predecessor organization of today's United Services Union (verdi).

history

The association was founded on the first German Book Printer Day from May 20th to 22nd, 1866 in Leipzig . It was also a reaction to the Threepenny Strike of 1865. As the first modern trade union in the graphics industry, the association existed until the unions were broken up in 1933.

The purpose of the association was the representation of the commercial and the promotion of the intellectual and material interests of its members to the exclusion of all political and religious questions. In order not to be banned as a result of the socialist law that came into force , the association renamed itself in 1879 as the German Book Printer Support Association . The seat was relocated to Stuttgart and the association fund could be saved from state access to Switzerland. On January 1, 1880, the printers founded the first central unemployment insurance in Germany. In 1888 the association moved its headquarters to Berlin. After the Socialist Act was repealed in 1891, the original name of the Association of German Book Printers was adopted again. The organ of the association was Der Correspondent , founded in 1863, from 1906 under the name Correspondent for Germany's book printers and type founders . The Coorespondent will be the information hub for German-speaking book printers. Here associations report on their founding, describe Midsummer celebrations, and publish statistics on support services. The newspaper can only be purchased by subscription and must assert itself on the market. In contrast to today, when the union newspapers are included in the contribution.

In June 1920, at the 10th general assembly of the association, a motion was accepted that instructed the board to build an association house in Berlin. From 1924 to 1926, a building in the New Objectivity style was built at Dudenstrasse 10 in Berlin's Kreuzberg district , based on plans by Max Taut , Franz Hoffmann and Karl Bernhard .

The association had a total of 90,389 members in 22 on 31 December 1930 districts were organized, 170 regional and 669 local associations.

The seizure of power by the National Socialists in January 1933 and the occupation of the trade union houses on May 2, 1933 marked the end of the free trade unions in Germany. The assets of the book printers' association were also confiscated. The association house was expropriated and after 1933 used by the German Labor Front - specialist office for printing and paper.

After the Second World War , the IG Druck und Papier was created as a unified union for the entire area of ​​the printing industry and paper processing.

people

Chair of the Association of German Book Printers:

literature

  • Willi Krahl: The Association of German Book Printers Fifty years of German trade union work with a history. Published by the board of the Association of German Book Printers. First volume. Commission publisher Radelli & Hille, Leipzig 1916.
  • Karl Michael Scheriau: fellow artists and colleagues. Origin, structure, mode of operation and objectives of the trade union organization of the German book printers from 1848 to 1933 . Berlin 2000. 313 pages. ISBN 978-3-937650-03-6 .
  • Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann a. a. (Ed.): From the book printer association to the unified union. 150 years of verdi. Solidarity - emancipation - collective bargaining. Berlin 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann u. a. (Ed.): From the book printer association to the unified union. 150 years of verdi. Berlin 2016.
  2. ^ Statute of the Association of German Book Printers: adopted by the General Assembly in Danzig from June 16 to 22, 1913 / Association of German Book Printers. - Electronic edition. - Essen-Ruhr: Schoreck, 1913. - 15 p. ( PDF file ).
  3. ^ Karl-Richter-Verein , accessed on March 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, pp. 33–34. , accessed March 21, 2012.
  5. ^ Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , accessed on March 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ Hartmut Simon: "Der Jetztwelt ein Leitstern": Der Coorespondent, ver.di Publik 8, 2015
  7. ↑ a b Archive of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives: Association of German Book Printers Inventory RY 29 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Edited by Andreas Grunwald, Koblenz 2001, accessed on March 29, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de