The Printing and Paper Union (german: Industriegewerkschaft Druck und Papier, IG DruPa) was a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (s ...

representing printing industry workers in West Germany. The union was founded on 29 November 1948, to represent workers in book printing, type founding, planographic printing, gravure printing, image production, bookbinding and paper processing. A few journalists also joined, and in 1951, they were given their own section, the "German Journalists Union". In 1949, the union became a founder member of the

International Graphical Federation The International Graphical Federation (IGF) was a global union federation bringing together unions of printing workers around the world. History Moved to establish the federation began in 1939, when the Lithographers' International, Internatio ...

. By 1988, the union had 150,288 members. The following year, it merged with the Arts Union, to form the

Media Union The Media Union (german: IG Medien – Druck und Papier, Publizistik und Kunst) was a trade union representing German workers in the printing, paper, journalism and arts. The union was founded on 15 April 1989 at a meeting in Hamburg, with the ...

Presidents

:1949: Christian Fette :1951: Heinrich Hansen :1962: Heinrich Bruns :1968: Werner Schmidt (acting) :1968:

Leonhard Mahlein Leonhard Mahlein (4 April 1921 – 18 December 1985), known as Loni Mahlein, was a German trade union leader. Born in Nuremberg, Mahlein's father was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) who was arrested by the Nazis in 1935 and se ...

:1983: Erwin Ferlemann

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