Trade Union of the Police

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**GdP**

Trade Union of the Police
Gewerkschaft der Polizei
Founded	September 14, 1950
Members	181,000
Country	Germany
Affiliation	DGB, EuroCOP
Key people	Konrad Freiberg, president
Office location	Berlin, Germany
Website	www.gdp.de

The Trade Union of the Police (German: 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.

[edit] 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- )

[edit] References

(2005) in ICTUR et al,: Trade Unions of the World, 6th, London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of September 16, 2006.