German National Association of Commercial Employees

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German National Association of Commercial Employees
Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband
Formation1893;132 years ago (1893)
Dissolved1933;92 years ago (1933)
Type Far-right trade union
Legal statusDefunct
PurposePromotion of reactionary politics
Membership400,000 (1932 est.)
Official language
German

The German National Association of Commercial Employees, also known as the German National Union of Commercial Employees (German: Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband, DHV) was a German nationalist and anti-Semitic labour union founded in Germany in 1893. It had links with the German Social Party, the Pan-German League and the Reich Citizens' Council. [1]

The DHV was directed against social democracy, [2] had an anti-democratic and anti-liberal ideology and supported the concept of a conservative revolution. [3] It promoted the interests of the merchant class. To prevent the spread of social democratic thoughts, it propagated patriotic and Völkisch mentality. [4] It is considered a proto-fascist or pre-fascist movement, [5] and was vocally anti-feminist. [6] It existed between 1893 and 1933. [7]

By 1914, the DHV had 160,000 members and by 1932 it had over 400,000 members. [8] It cooperated with the Nazi Party and sought to unite Nazism and political Catholicism together. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Patch, William L. (1985). Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar republic 19-18-1933: The Failure of "Corporate Pluralism". new Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN   0300033281.
  2. ↑ Joan Campbell. European labor unions. Wesport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 1992. pp. 163–164.
  3. ↑ Larry Eugene Jones, James N. Retallack. Between Reform, Reaction, And Resistance: Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945. Berg, 1993, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Matthew Lange. Antisemitic anticapitalism in German culture from 1850-1933. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, p. 224.
  5. ↑ Peter Davies, Derek Lynch. The Routledge companion to fascism and the far right. London, England; New York, New York, USA: Routledge, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Guido, Diane J. (2010). The German League for the Prevention of Women's Emancipation: Anti-Feminism in Germany, 1912-1920. Peter Lang. p. 57. ISBN   9781433107849.
  7. ↑ Matthew Lange. Antisemitic anticapitalism in German culture from 1850-1933. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006. pp. 224.
  8. ↑ Joan Campbell. European labor unions. Wesport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 1992, p. 164.
  9. ↑ Joan Campbell. European labor unions. Wesport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 1992. pp. 163–164.
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