TRANSNET Gewerkschaft explained

TRANSNET
Location Country:Germany
Affiliation:DGB
Full Name:TRANSNET Gewerkschaft GdED
Founded: as GdED, refounded 1948
Dissolved:2010
Merged:EVG
Headquarters:Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Key People:Alexander Kirchner, president
Website:transnet.org

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.

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

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