General Commission of German Trade Unions [SEP] dissolved or abolished
General Commission of German Trade Unions
The General Commission of German Trade Unions was an umbrella body for German trade unions during the German Empire, from the end of the Anti-Socialist Laws in 1890 up to 1919. In 1919, a successor organisation was named the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, and then in 1949, the current Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund was formed.
See also.
- German labour law
- History of German labour law
16–17 November 1890 the historic first conference of German trade unions was held, at which a "Generalkommission der Gewerkschaften Deutschlands" ("General Commission of German Trade Unions") was established. Ihrer insisted that the statutes allowed for female membership, and was elected the sole women in the seven-person board of the General Commission.
She was widely recognized in the press as "the soul of all agitation among socialist women".
Ihrer found that decades after the SPD had been formed there was still no mass movement