Reichsvereinigung der Deutschen Gewerkschaften
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Reichsvereinigung der Deutschen Gewerkschaften ('National Association of German Trade Unions') was a trade union centre in the First Czechoslovak Republic. The organization had its headquarters on Krakovská street 11 in Prague. Initially the Reichsvereinigung grouped all the main German nationalist, or völkisch, trade unions in the Sudetenland.
As of 1921, the affiliates of the Reichsvereinigung claimed to have 49,500 members. By the end of 1928, the organization claimed to have 51,500 members. The Reichsvereinigung was a supposedly apolitical body for German workers.
In 1929 the Reichsvereinigung suffered a split, as eight unions (Gewerkschaftsverband deutscher Arbeiter, Deutschsozialistische Bergarbeiterverband, Deutscher Handels- und Industrieangestellen-Verband, Gewerkschaft deutscher Eisenbahner, and smaller unions) broke away from the Reichsvereinigung and founded the rival Verband deutscher Gewerkschaften. The split had simmered for some time, as sectors the dissident sectors of the Reichsvereinigung wanted a more explicitly Nazi political direction. After the split, the strength of Reichsvereinigung was curtailed. By 1929 the remaining Reichvereinigung affiliates had only 12,800 members.
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