TRANSNET Gewerkschaft

TRANSNET, which stands for Transport, Service, and Networks, was a trade union in Germany and one of eight industrial affiliations of the German Confederation of Trade Unions.

TRANSNET
Full nameTRANSNET Gewerkschaft GdED
Founded1896 (1896) as GdED, refounded 1948
Date dissolved2010
Merged intoEVG
AffiliationDGB
Key peopleAlexander Kirchner, president
Office locationFrankfurt am Main, Germany
CountryGermany
Websitetransnet.org

Since autumn 2005, TRANSNET worked together with the "rival" union GDBA.

On November 30, 2010, the delegates of a union convention in Fulda decided to merge with GDBA to the new union EVG.

Presidents
1949: Hans Jahn
1959: Philipp Seibert
1979: Ernst Haar
1988: Rudi Schäfer
1999: Norbert Hansen
2008: Lothar Krauß
2008: Alexander Kirchner

References
  • ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.


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