10th February 1946
FDGB
Commemorative postcard for the general delegates conference of the Free German Trade Union Federation for the Soviet occupied German territory. Unused but featuring postage stamps tied with a commemorative cancellation for the philatelic collector (Mi.7a - 12 pf, Mi.97 - 12 Pf, Mi.929 - 40 Pf, JB:Berlin394/133). To the reverse is a printed quote from Karl Marx stating, 'The trade unions are the schools for Socialism'. Ref: 10.02.1946 - 16/47
Free German Trade Union federation
The Free German Trade Union Federation was the sole national trade union centre of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) which existed from 1946 to 1990. As a mass organisation of the GDR, nominally representing all workers, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
In spring 1946, the former ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau bei Berlin, which before Nazi rule had belonged to the Allgemeiner Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB) (Federation of German Trade Unions), was given to the FDGB to use as a training centre. After some restoration work, the school opened in 1947 under the name FDGB-Bundesschule 'Theodor Leipart' (Theodor Leipart FDGB Trade Union School). In January 1952 it was given degree awarding status and renamed Gewerkschaftshochschule 'Fritz Heckert' (Fritz Heckert Trade Union College). In the early 1950s the FDGB considerably increased the size of the school, constructing new buildings on the site, in addition to those of the former ADGB school. The original part of the school, completed in 1930, was a project of the Bauhaus design school and in 2017 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site the Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau.
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