Academy of Bavarian Bakery Crafts Lochham
The Academy of the Bavarian Bakery Trade Lochham is a state-recognized master school for bakers in Germany. The sponsor is the state guild association for the Bavarian bakery trade (Munich). The historic building is located in Graefelfing in the Munich district . The Academy in Lochham is a pioneer of combined training, which combines the technical master craftsman training with the entrepreneurial qualification of the business economist of the craft (BdH).
history
The Bavarian Bakery School is the origin of the academy, its founding decision was taken on January 25, 1949 by the executive board of the state guild association for the Bavarian bakery trade. On April 20, 1949, this decision was approved by the master meeting of all Bavarian bakers' guilds. Construction began in the first week of March 1950. The foundation stone was laid on Wednesday, April 12, 1950 in the presence of the former mayor of Munich. D. and master baker Karl Scharnagl . On June 22nd was the Hebrew ceremony. The official inauguration ceremony took place on March 14, 1951, and the first master's preparation course began on April 2, 1951 with 32 students. The fee for this eight-week course was DM 430 at the time. The course participants were accommodated in the neighboring Waldheim, which was built at the beginning of the century and served as a vacation stay for the children of the professionals in the Munich bakery trade and also as a place to relax for their colleagues.
philosophy
Instead of the lecturing teaching method, an elaborate teaching method is used, which is intended to encourage the participants to work independently. This includes creating profiles, identifying opportunities and testing specialist knowledge and personal aptitude before the start of training. There is a fixed group system, which means that 24 students are divided into three groups with specific seating. According to their profile, every student receives a mentoring mentor who is there to advise them during their training.
Organization and equipment
The students are taught theory and practice by specialist teachers based at the academy. In addition to the three to four regular teachers, guest speakers are used to impart specialist knowledge. Lochham currently employs between 15 and 20 "external speakers".
Lochham has three teaching bakeries, three training and classrooms and an IT training room with a computer and an in-house laboratory. The house has a canteen with 48 seats, two lounges and 22 rooms with 40 beds.
Initial and continuing education
The academy's training and further education include training as a business economist in the trade, nutritionist or branch manager in the bakery trade. In addition, seminars on topics related to the bakery trade are offered:
- Modern sourdough tours
- In-house production of masses, doughs and fillings
- Baking with ancient grains
- Special seminars to optimize product quality
- Modern branch management
- Coffee competence training
- Mentality-oriented personnel management
Master classes
24 participants will be prepared for the master craftsman examination over a period of 25 weeks. Since autumn 1999 the master craftsman training has been combined with the further training to become a business economist in the craft . This meant an expansion of the 800-hour master course by 500 hours of special entrepreneurial training. Of these additional 500 hours, 250 hours are taught in Lochham, the remaining 250 hours in the Academy for Management of the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria . 5,000 master class students have completed their training at the academy. In second place on the list of frequent visitors are the inter-company apprentice training courses , followed by specialist practical courses, sales seminars and business administration courses.
Technical practical and business seminars
In addition to the master’s preparation courses, practical and sales-related seminars are held. In the early years, these were mainly fine baking courses in line with the development of demand. In the second half of the 1960s, the so-called apprentice weeks for bakers' apprentices and later also for specialist salespeople apprentices were added. Seminars for subject teachers were also held. The course plan was supplemented with seminars on bread specialties and diet pastries. Since the beginning of the 1980s, business seminars have been increasingly included in the course program.
Member of the ADB association
In 2006, Lochham was a founding member of the German Bakery Academy ( ADB-Verbund ). It is an association of all craft-owned technical schools of the guild associations of the bakery trade in Germany. In addition to the Academy of the Bavarian Bakery Trade Lochham, the ADB association includes the following educational institutions:
- Federal Academy Weinheim
- ADB Berlin-Brandenburg
- Badische bakery school Karlsruhe
- ADB Bakery School Hanover
- First German bakery school in Olpe
- Conveyor ring of the Hessian bakery trade
- Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk Sachsen e. V.
- Academy of the Württemberg bakery trade
The ADB group is coordinated by the Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk Weinheim as the federal academy for all 16 regional bakeries.
