title: Swiss Typographers' Union
text: # Swiss Typographers' Union
  
  The Swiss Typographers' Union (German: Schweizerischer Typographenbund, STB; French: Fédération Suisse des Typographes) was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland.
  
  The union was founded in 1858 in Olten, becoming the first enduring trade union in Switzerland. It achieved early success by negotiating wage increases, leading many strikes, and in 1912 it achieved a closed shop agreement, in co-ordination with its Christian and liberal rivals. It was an early member of the Swiss Trade Union Federation, while in 1892, it led the formation of the International Typographers' Secretariat, thereafter hosting its headquarters.
  
  By the end of World War I, the union had a national presence, although until 1926 it did not admit women or workers it considered to be less skilled. By 1954, the union had 10,560 members, and this rose to 15,466 by 1979. The following year, it merged with the Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union to form the Union of Printing and Paper.
  
  ## Central Presidents
  
      1858: Ed. Albrecht
      1862: U. Müller
      1863: Fr. Niklaus
      1864: J. Kleinert
      1865: J. Boß
      1866: F. Wittmer
      1867: K. Ehrensberger
      1868: H. Schweizer
      1870: J. Rüegg
      1872: Fabian Lack
      1874: K. Ehrensberger
      1876: H. Schweizer
      1880: J. Kummer
      1886: Friedrich Siebenmann
      1888: F. Käser
      1889: J. Frank
      1892: J. Leisinger
      1893: H. Unteregger
      1895: A. Ammann
      1898: A. Hagmann
      1900: E. Pfister
      1904: E. Blaser
      1905: F. Brosi
      1906: Fritz Verdan
      1917: Hans Grundbacher
      1922: H. Bräuchi
      1924:
      1927: Hans Huber
      1946: Karl Aeschbacher
      1950s: Eduard Harsch
      1967: Erwin Gerster
  