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General German Trade Union Federation
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The ADGB was founded on July 5, 19191919 Chronology German Historical Museum. Retrieved August 5, 2011 {{in lang|de}} in Nuremberg after the first postwar congress of free trade unions. The ADGB was founded as the new umbrella organization to succeed the General Commission of Germany's Trade Unions (Generalkommission der Gewerkschaften Deutschlands). Carl Legien was elected as the first chairman.It was an amalgamation of 52 German trade unions and was affiliated with the General Federation of Free Employees (AfA-Bund) and the General German Civil Service Federation (Allgemeiner Deutscher Beamtenbund)."Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund" German Historical Museum. Retrieved August 8, 2011 {{in lang|de}} The adjective "Allgemeiner" ("general")The adjective "allgemeiner" is sometimes awkward to translate. In this case, it has the sense of "across-the-board". was added to the name because in March 1919, the Christian and liberal trade unions had already founded umbrella organizations called the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund.An influential mass organization under Legien's leadership, it organized a general strike in 1920 to counter the right-wing Kapp Putsch. Roughly 12 million workers took part,"Der Generalstreik 1920" German Historical Museum Retrieved August 6, 2011 {{in lang|de}} halting all production, transportation, mining and public services and, as The New York Times wrote, "giving the Kapp régime its death blow".Carl Legien obituary (PDF) The New York Times (December 27, 1920). Retrieved August 6, 2011The free trade unions were not politically neutral; rather, they saw themselves as the economic arm of the socialist labor movement. Next to the free trade unions, were the Christian trade unions and the liberal unions. Neither were ever able to reach the membership numbers of the free trade unions. In 1920, the unions of the ADGB had over 8 million members, but the international financial crisis at the end of the decade caused high unemployment, leading to a substantial drop in the membership of member unions. By the end of 1932, there were an estimated 3.5 million members.Despite the split in the SPD during World War I, the free trade unions continued to remain close to the SPD, the largest working class political party. Together, the SPD and the ADGB fought for the introduction unemployment benefits and a legally mandated eight-hour workday, which was gutted by regulations established in 1923. At the end of 1931, they united with the Reichsbanner and workers' sport clubs to form the Iron Front against the growing threat of the Nazi Party.Andreas Linhardt, Die Technische Nothilfe in der Weimarer Republik Dissertation, Braunschweig University of Technology (2006), p. 667 {{ISBN|978-3-8334-4889-8}}. Retrieved August 6, 2011 {{in lang|de}}At first, ADGB unions were open to members of other working class political parties including the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). This changed in 1929, when the KPD, under pressure from the Soviet Union, began to run competing candidates at factory works council elections. The Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition (RGO), was founded in December 1929 as a communist opposition labor organization, hoping to draw left-wing unionists away from the ADGB.,"Die Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition" German History Museum. Retrieved August 8, 2011 {{in lang|de}} which led to the expulsion of many communists from the ADGB. By March 1932, the RGO had about 200,000 members.The evening of the day Hitler was declared to be the new chancellor by president Hindenburg, January 30,Walter Ulbricht of the communist party delivered a renewed proposal for a joint call for a general strike, similar to the successful strike against the Kapp Putsch of 1920, to the ADGB general union. Heinz, Niemann, Die ignorierten Mahnrufe,weblink The trade unions and SPD declined the offer and issued, opposing it, leaflets, posters and articles calling workers to ignore all calls for a strike issued solely by the communist party during February and March 1933. Klaus Kinner, Die verkannte Niederlage. Das Dilemma des deutschen Kommunismus 1933,weblink Hessischer Volksfreund vom 2.2.1933,weblink (File:Gedenktafel Tempelhofer Feld (Temph) Geschichtspfad Tempelhofer Feld-Massenkundgebung2 (cropped 5).jpg|thumb|SA troops occupy the trade union building in what is now Engeldamm (Berlin), 2 May 1933)After the Nazis seized power in the election of March 1933, the trade union leadership tried to save their organizations by pandering to the Nazi Party and in April 1933, offered "to put themselves in service to the new state". At the same time, ADGB chairman Theodor Leipart, began to distance himself from the SPD and declared the ADGB to be politically neutral."Prohibition of Free Trade-Unions: SA Members Seize the Union Office on Engelsufer in Berlin (May 2, 1933)" German History in Documents and Images. Retrieved August 7, 2011"Der Verrat der sozialdemokratischen ADGB-Führer" (PDF) ASK / VAB Hamburg-Altona, pp. 2â3. Retrieved August 7, 2011 {{in lang|de}} This policy resulted in the call by the national board to partake in "National Labor Day", the Nazi version of International Workers' Day, (also called "May Day"), a left-wing celebration of labor, and led to a break with the International Federation of Trade Unions. Even as the Nazis were planning to storm union offices,"Circular from Dr. Robert Ley, Staff Chief of NSDAP Political Organizations, on the Action to "Coordinate" [Gleichschaltungaktion] the Free Trade Unions (April 21, 1933)" German History in Documents and Images. Retrieved August 8, 2011 ADGB leaders met with leaders of the Christian and liberal labor organization for talks about a merger in the hopes of forestalling a prohibition of organized labor.These efforts failed to prevent the free trade unions from a nationwide surprise attack the day after May Day, just two months later. On May 2, 1933, all ADGB member union were stormed, their offices occupied and assets seized by the SA, SS"2. Mai 1933: Zerschlagung der freien Gewerkschaften" {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110926225906weblink |date=September 26, 2011 }} verdi.de (January 28, 2003). Retrieved August 6, 2011 {{in lang|de}} and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. Officials were put in "protective custody" and many trade unionists were maltreated. In Duisburg, four trade union officials were brutally murdered.Non-profit entities
The ADGB operated several non-profit companies. In 1924, a workers' bank was founded, the Bank der Deutschen Arbeit. On July 29, 1928, the cornerstone was laid for the Bundesschule des Allgemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (ADGB Trade Union School) in Bernau bei Berlin, Brandenburg. The school operated for only three years, until the Nazis gained power, after which the Nazis used part of the school to train the SS.David Sokol, "An Architectural Gem in Germany is Reborn" Architectural Record (August 13, 2008). Retrieved August 6, 2011ADGB school after the war
(File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0722-019, Bernau, Gaststudenten der Gewerkschaftshochschule.jpg|thumb|Foreign trainees at the trade union school in 1986.)After World War II, the school was used by occupying Russian military forces and from 1946 by the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), an East German organisation.History. Bauhaus trade union school. Available at:weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105173549weblink |date=November 5, 2016 }} (Accessed: 23 October 2016) Its existence was forgotten and the 12-acre site was not open to the public. Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was it rediscovered. The East Germans had made significant renovations to the building to the extent that it was not recognized by architects looking for it after 1989.The original complex was designed by the newly appointed director of the Bauhaus School, Hannes Meyer and his colleague Hans Wittwer. The design followed its architects' . The complex needed to house facilities to train and educate 120 people. The result was a Z-Shaped series of buildings that housed class-rooms, library, gymnasium and dining hall along with the insertion of a glass-blocked ceiling. Despite the extremely functional approach, materials were used in an expressive way including concrete, glass blocks and steel encasement windows.ADGB Trade Union School on Architectuul. Retrieved January 7, 2013The complex was restored to its former glory following a Europe-wide competition for the contract. The Berlin Chamber of Crafts paid a portion of the costs and has used it as a training school since 2007.Märkische Oderzeitung. Brandenburger Blätter, (April 25, 2008), p. 3 {{in lang|de}} In 2008 the restoration project won the architects, Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten, the World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism Prize. In July 2017 the former ADGB Trade Union School was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site the Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau.WEB,weblink Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau, UNESCO, 23 November 2018,Affiliates
The following unions held membership of the federation:{| class="wikitable sortable"! Union! Abbreviation! Affiliated! Left! Reason for leaving! Membership (1920)JOURNAL, Das Achtmillioner der freien Gewerkschaften Deutschlands, Gärtner-Zeitung, 16 July 1921, XXXI, 29, 1,weblink 16 June 2020, ! Membership (1928)BOOK, Heyde, Ludwig, Internationales Handwörterbuch des Gewerkschaftswesens, 1931, ADGB, Berlin,weblink 27 May 2020,See also
- Cuno strikes
- Gewerkschaftsbund des Memelgebietes
- Verband der Fabrikarbeiter Deutschlands
- ADGB Trade Union School
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{{commons category|Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund}}- Die Arbeit (1924â1933) Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Retrieved August 6, 2011 {{in lang|de}}
- Prohibition of Free Trade-Unions: SA Members Seize the Union Office on Engelsufer in Berlin (May 2, 1933) Retrieved 30 October, 2016
- Photos of ADGB badge and publication German Historical Museum. Retrieved August 8, 2011 {{in lang|de}}
- ADGB Trade Union School on Architectuul
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