Association of Food and Beverage Workers
| Association of Food and Beverage Workers (VNG) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | Eduard Backert |
| Establishment date: | 1927 |
| Dissolution date: | 1938 |
| Number of members: | 150,000 |
The Association of Food and Beverage Workers (VNG) was a union of the Weimar Republic .
history
The Association of Food and Beverage Workers represented the interests of bakers , confectioners , coopers , brewers , butchers and millers . It was organized in the General German Trade Union Federation and comprised around 150,000 members. It is considered to be a forerunner organization of the food-pleasure-restaurants union . The union was founded in 1927 and dissolved by the National Socialists in 1933 .
However, the VNG continued to work conspiratorially and collected news from the Third Reich, which it passed on to the International Organization of the Food and Beverage Industry. The union also took part in anti-fascist propaganda work and called for a boycott of the National Socialist confidence elections in the factories. The anti-fascist resistance was organized by a network of shop stewards. In July 1935 a secret meeting took place in Zurich, in which the local groups from Berlin and Frankfurt am Main took part. By 1938 at the latest, however, the structures had been smashed.
literature
- Axel Ulrich: Fight against Hitler. On the political resistance against the Nazi regime in the Rhine-Main area . In: Nazi rule, persecution and resistance (= Mainz history sheets ). Association for Social History Mainz, Mainz 2004, p. 105-160 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Further sources from the Weimar period. Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on March 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Thomas Jansen: The history of the food-pleasure-restaurants union up to the current structure. (PDF; 269 kB) NGG region Aachen , August 2012, accessed on March 13, 2013 .