Printing and Paper Union (Germany)

The Printing and Paper Union (, IG DruPa) was a trade union representing printing industry workers in West Germany.

The union was founded on 29 November 1948, to represent workers in book printing, type founding, planographic printing, gravure printing, image production, bookbinding and paper processing. A few journalists also joined, and in 1951, they were given their own section, the "German Journalists Union". In 1949, the union became a founder member of the International Graphical Federation.

By 1988, the union had 150,288 members. The following year, it merged with the Arts Union, to form the Media Union and is today a part of ver.di.

Presidents 1949: Christian Fette 1951: Heinrich Hansen 1962: Heinrich Bruns 1968: Werner Schmidt (acting) 1968: Leonhard Mahlein 1983: Erwin Ferlemann

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