German Salaried Employees' Union

The German Salaried Employees ' Union ( DAG) was an independent trade union, based in Hamburg. Do not belonged to the German Confederation of Trade Unions ( DGB), before it was part of the 2001 United Services Union ( Verdi ).

History

The German workers ' union was established in 1949 by the union of five staff associations in the three western zones in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, initially with 215,000 members.

First union employees associations have already been registered in the mid-19th century. In the Weimar Republic have emerged from nearly a hundred different white-collar professional associations essentially three ideologically aligned employee leagues: the social-democratic oriented AfA -Bund, the Liberal Trade Unions of the employees and the christian national association of German employee unions. The DAG saw himself as a successor organization to the employees union organizations that have existed until the destruction by the Nazis in 1933.

The DAG has established itself as a career-oriented, politically independent trade union for employees. They did not belong to the DGB and was an independent political umbrella organization. In this capacity, she worked to protect the interests of its members to parliament and the government a. Among other things, they reached the restoration of self-government for the insured in the social security and a largely independent social security for employees in the 50s. In the following decades, they had a lasting effect the tariff policy for employees. Also, women's politics they put special emphasis by stressing partnership and aspects specific to women. It operated on many levels, professional politics for the qualification of employees. The DAG was with their educational institutions - German employees (DAA ) and education work of the DAG - one of the largest educational institutions for the training of employees in the Federal Republic of Germany, which each year more than 100,000 people professionally, for example, the early 90s off and further formed.

The strict separation in full-time and volunteer functions has become a particularly important feature of the DAG. Originally, full-time and volunteer united in the DAG Main Board workers. At the national convention in 1957, the delegates decided the separation in the full-time occupied the Federal Executive and the honorary occupied Council of Trade Unions.

The DAG had temporarily more than 500,000 members (about one- third of them female), who joined forces in different professional groups and state associations.

2001 merged the DAG with four DGB unions (DPG, HBV, OTV, IG Medien ) to the United Services Union ( Verdi ), which included nearly 2.9 million members to merger and integration time.

Chairman (Board members) of the DAG

• -1949 Wilhelm Doerr
• 1949-1959: Fritz Rettig ( Arthur Queißer, Karl Ruge, Heinz Christmann, ... )
• 1959-1960: Georg Schneider, acting chairman
• 1960-1967: Rolf Spaethen (Hans Katzbach, Günter Apel, Herta Meyer- Rieke Berg, ... )
• 1967-1987: Hermann Brandt ( Walter district, Gerda Hesse, Herbert Nierhaus, ...)
• 1987-2001: Roland Issen (Karl Kaula, Lutz Freitag, Ursula Konitz, Gerd Herzberg ... )