The Free German Trade Union Federation was the sole national trade union centre of the German Democratic Republic from 1946 to 1990. It was a mass organisation and a constituent member of the National
Harry Tisch, FDGB chairman from 1975 to 1989.
FDGB's cruise ship MS "Fritz Heckert" in Helsinki in May 1961.
Georg-Waterstradt-Building, built c. 1952, at the trade union school
The General German Trade Union Federation was a confederation of trade unions in Germany founded during the Weimar Republic. It was founded in 1919 and was initially powerful enough to organize a gene
SA troops occupy the trade union building in what is now Engeldamm (Berlin), 2 May 1933.
Foreign trainees at the trade union school in 1986