Swiss Typographers' Union
# Swiss Typographers' Union

The Swiss Typographers' Union (German: Schweizerischer Typographenbund, STB; French: Fédération Suisse des Typographes) was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland.

The union was founded in 1858 in Olten, becoming the first enduring trade union in Switzerland. It achieved early success by negotiating wage increases, leading many strikes, and in 1912 it achieved a closed shop agreement, in co-ordination with its Christian and liberal rivals. It was an early member of the Swiss Trade Union Federation, while in 1892, it led the formation of the International Typographers' Secretariat, thereafter hosting its headquarters.

By the end of World War I, the union had a national presence, although until 1926 it did not admit women or workers it considered to be less skilled. By 1954, the union had 10,560 members, and this rose to 15,466 by 1979. The following year, it merged with the Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union to form the Union of Printing and Paper.

## Central Presidents

    1858: Ed. Albrecht
    1862: U. Müller
    1863: Fr. Niklaus
    1864: J. Kleinert
    1865: J. Boß
    1866: F. Wittmer
    1867: K. Ehrensberger
    1868: H. Schweizer
    1870: J. Rüegg
    1872: Fabian Lack
    1874: K. Ehrensberger
    1876: H. Schweizer
    1880: J. Kummer
    1886: Friedrich Siebenmann
    1888: F. Käser
    1889: J. Frank
    1892: J. Leisinger
    1893: H. Unteregger
    1895: A. Ammann
    1898: A. Hagmann
    1900: E. Pfister
    1904: E. Blaser
    1905: F. Brosi
    1906: Fritz Verdan
    1917: Hans Grundbacher
    1922: H. Bräuchi
    1924:
    1927: Hans Huber
    1946: Karl Aeschbacher
    1950s: Eduard Harsch
    1967: Erwin Gerster
