Trade Union of the Police
- Trade Union of the Police
Infobox Union
name= GdP
country= Germany
affiliation= DGB, EuroCOP
members= 181,000
full_name= Trade Union of the Police
native_name= Gewerkschaft der Polizei
founded= September 14, 1950
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Berlin, Germany
people= Konrad Freiberg, president
website= [http://www.gdp.de/ www.gdp.de]
footnotes= The Trade Union of the Police ( _de. Gewerkschaft der Polizei; GdP) is a trade union in Germany. It represents 181,000 police employees, and is one of eight industrial affiliations of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB). The GdP is one three trade unions for police employees in Germany, the other two being the Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft - affiliated with the German Civil Service Federation - and the Union of the German Criminal Police, which is exclusively for members of the "Kriminalpolizei".
The Trade Union of the Police was founded on a federal level on September 14, 1950 in Hamburg. It emerged from the "Interessengemeinschaft der Polizeibeamtenbunde" ("Pool of Police Officer Federations"), which had existed in the British occupation zone and West Berlin to that point. It joined the German Confederation of Trade Unions on April 1, 1978. On a European level, the GdP is part of the European Confederation of Police (EuroCOP).
The GdP is open to all employees of the police - including police officers, customs agents of the Bundeszollverwaltung, administration workers, etc. It represents the job-related, social, economic, ecological, and cultural concerns employees and former employees of the police. It especially seeks an improvement of their work and living conditions and of civil service and labor law. To achieve this, the organization takes part in social and political discussions.
Presidents
*Fritz Schulte (1950-1955)
*Fritz Preuß (1955-1956)
*Fritz Kehler (1956-1958)
*Werner Kuhlmann (1958-1975)
*Helmut Schirrmacher (1975-1981)
*Günter Schröder (1981-1986)
*Hermann Lutz (1981-1986)
*Norbert Spinrath (1998-2000)
*Konrad Freiberg (2000- )
References
*cite book
year = 2005
title = Trade Unions of the World
editor = ICTUR et al,
edition = 6th
publisher = John Harper Publishing
location = London, UK
id = ISBN 0-9543811-5-7
*German|Gewerkschaft der Polizei|September 16, 2006
External links
* [http://www.gdp.de/ Official website]
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