The General German Civil Service Federation (German: Allgemeiner Deutscher Beamtenbund, ADB) was a trade union representing civil servants in Germany.
In 1922, the German Civil Service Federation (DBB) opposed a strike by railway workers.
[1] The federation was led by Albert Falkenberg and published the journal Mitteilungsblatt der Gewerkschaflichen Beamtenzentrale.
[1] Membership of the federation was initially 350,000 but, due to reductions of the size of the German civil service, by 1932, it was down to 171,000.
Once a Nazi government was elected, the federation anticipated that it would be banned, and so pre-empted this by dissolving, on 6 April 1933.