Union of German Book Printers

The Union of German Book Printers (German: Verband der Deutschen Buchdrucker, VDDB) was a trade union representing printers in Germany.

In May 1866, a German Book Printers' Day was held in Leipzig, and this founded the national union, which adopted the newspaper Der Correspondent as its journal.

[1] In order to avoid being banned under the Anti-Socialist Laws, in 1879 it renamed itself as the German Book Printers' Support Club, and it moved its funds to Switzerland.

This enabled it to become the first German union to offer a national unemployment insurance scheme, in 1880.

After World War II, printers were represented as part of the Printing and Paper Union.