title: Education and Science Workers' Union (Germany)
text: # Education and Science Workers' Union (Germany)
  
  The Education and Science Workers’ Union (German: Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, GEW) is a trade union in Germany. It has a membership of 280,343 and is one of eight industrial affiliates of the German Confederation of Trade Unions. Most members are teachers, but it also represents day care workers, social workers, private educators, researchers and professors.
  
  GEW is founding member of the Berlin Energy Table which successfully pushed for a Referendum on the recommunalization of energy supply in Berlin in 2013.
  
  ## Trusts
  
  ### Fair Childhood
  
  A charitable trust founded by the trades union GEW with the mission to use education to fight child labour ("Bildung statt Kinderarbeit").
  
  ## Presidents
  
      1947: Max Traeger
      1952: Bernhard Plewe
      1958: Max Traeger
      1960: Heinrich Rodenstein
      1968: Erich Frister
      1981: Dieter Wunder
      1997: Eva-Maria Stange
      2005: Ulrich Thöne
      2013: Marlis Tepe
      2021: Maike Finnern
  