 Register of members of the FDGB.
 Daten zur Ausstellung des Mitgliedsbuches.
 Sonder- und Solidaritätsmarken. The Free German Trade Union Federation, in German Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB), was the trade union federation in East Germany. It was part of the National Front and had representatives in the Volkskammer. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1228x916, 235 KB) Mitgliedsbuch des FDGB. Source: scanned by Appaloosa Author: Appaloosa 20:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Free German Trade...
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The National Front was a united front of political parties and mass organisations in East Germany. ...
The Volkskammer (Peoples Chamber) was the de jure Legislature of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ...
On paper the FDGB, a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions, was actually the umbrella organization for about 15 individual trade unions (e.g. IG Metall, IG Transport etc.), but in reality most members did not even realise that was the case. Only a handwritten note on the last page of the standard red membership booklet mentioned the individual trade union they belonged to. The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was established in the wake of the Second World War to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations. ...
A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...
Structure
The bureaucratic union apparatus was a basic component and tool of the SED’s power structure, constructed on the same strictly centralist hierarchical model as all other major GDR organizations. The logo of the SED The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED) was the governing party of East Germany from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990. ...
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The smallest unit was a "Kollektiv", which nearly all workers in any organisation belonged to, including state leaders and party functionaries. They "recommended" trustworthy people – ideologically reliable workers – as the lowest FDGB functionaries and "voted" for them in open-list ballots. The higher positions ranged from "Departmental Union Leader" (Abteilungsgewerkschaftsleiter, AGL) to Leader of the "Central BGL" ( Betriebsgewerkschaftsleitung - Company Union Leadership in combines); they were normally full-time and held by SED members with a history of toeing the party line, or in some cases bloc party members. Their jobs, like those of the FDGB district leaders, were assured until they retired as long as they did not stray from party policy.
The chairman of the FDGB was Herbert Warnke until his death in the late '70s when he was replaced by Harry Tisch, a member of the SED’s Politburo, who kept the post until the political turnaround in 1989. Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Membership Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade councils. As well as improving members’ career chances, the FDGB also offered various "concessions" which in practice were more a lack of the discrimination and harassment directed against opponents to the regime. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Function
 Sticker for FDGB holiday ship, 1960s In the GDR state system, the FDGB was in charge of ideological control and conformity in companies, as well as social tasks such as hospital visits, presenting awards, giving gifts on special anniversaries, even extending as far as organizing health spas and the hard-to-get holiday bookings. The FDGB’s own holiday service was responsible for the latter. Sticker of Freie Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund holiday ship This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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The single trade union was also very important as a source of new blood for the military. Using small benefits as an incentive, and if necessary gentle pressure, large numbers of workers and employees were recruited to what were known as "working class task forces". Emblem of the Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse The Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse (German: Combat Groups of the Working Class) was a paramilitary organisation in East Germany, founded in 1953 and abolished in 1990. ...
German reunification In May 1990, shortly before German reunification, the FDGB was dissolved. Many former members did not join the West German (now German) unions as their previous experience had led them to associate unions with state nannying, especially as old GDR functionaries had managed to get new positions there. Moreover, because of the lightning privatization of the GDR many had simply lost their jobs. The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English commonly called East Germany) were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, in...
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