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Danish EL-Federation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ12307405 ↗
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The Danish EL-Federation (Danish: Dansk El Forbund, DEF) is a trade union representing electricians and technicians in Denmark.

The union was founded 1 January 1904 as the Danish Union of Electricians, and affiliated to the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). By 1997, half of its members worked in construction, 30% in the metal industry, and most of the remainder in utilities and public administration.

By 2018, the union had 22,808 members.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1997, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Danish, EL-Federation and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Danish EL-Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.