Beer dispute

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Eibauer beer train in memory of the beer war between Görlitz and Zittau from 1490 to 1491
Postcard in memory of the Bamberg Beer War in 1907
End of the Berlin beer strike in 1932

As beer dispute or beer boycott , beer feud , beer riot , beer war and beer strike disputes are referred to the price , the beer tax or other aspects of the sales and consumption of beer , and, second boycott or walkout lead. Beer is often understood as a food and not just as a luxury item. In the Middle Ages , such conflicts also led to armed conflicts.

Examples

Examples include:

  • The Wroclaw Beer War from Christmas 1380 to spring 1382 between the city of Wroclaw and the Bohemian sovereign King Wenceslaus IV on the one hand and the Dukes of Liegnitz and the Wroclaw Cathedral Chapter on the other, whose chapter property was looted by the royal Soldateska in 1381 .
  • The Hildesheim beer feud from 1481 to 1486 was triggered when the Hildesheim bishop Berthold II von Landsberg wanted to fix his financial problems with a beverage tax on every barrel of beer. From September 1484 it came to armed conflicts.
  • In the years 1490 to 1491 there was a dispute between Görlitz and Zittau , the beer war between Görlitz and Zittau . The Eibauer beer train reminds of these disputes (→ Beer dispute (Oberlausitz) ).
  • In 1510 there was a dispute over brewery rights between Ebermannstadt and Pretzfeld .
  • In the first third of the 16th century the Zitzschewig beer dispute broke out in the Radebeul district of Zitzschewig between the Council of Dresden and the Meißner bishop , to whose settlement Duke George the Bearded one helped.
  • The Chemnitz beer riot in 1524: Evidence of a customary law that only allows Chemnitz citizens to brew and serve beer already exists for 1331. The events of 1524 are also in the context of the conflicts over these rights.
  • As in 1588, despite mile right of Budweiser brewers only 5 km away, young mountain town Rudolfstadt took a brewery in operation, the dispute broke out between the two cities. The Budweiser, who had already defended their rights with arms in 1464 and 1525, put an end to the dispute in 1619 by looting the neighboring town.
  • In 1778 the beer war between Naila and Selbitz broke out when the residents of Selbitz resisted deliveries of beer from Naila .
  • In November 1866 there was a general beer strike in Bochum because the serving price was to be increased from 1 to 1¼ silver groschen per 0.5 liter .
  • In 1866 anti-Jewish riots broke out during a Würzburg beer riot.
  • The trigger for the Frankfurt beer riot was the increase in the price of beer from 4 Kreuzer (1 Batzen ) to 4½ Kreuzer by the Frankfurt brewery restaurants on April 1, 1873, which resulted in the most serious social unrest between the revolutions of 1848 and 1918 in Frankfurt on April 21, 1873 Main revealed.
  • The Göttingen beer riot of 1881 concerned a conflict between the Royal Prussian Police and residents and students of the city of Göttingen over the enforcement of the curfew. When the Police Ordinance came into force on May 15, 1881, there were three days of nightly unrest and around 300 arrests.
  • The Berlin beer boycott occurred in 1894 and was lifted after eight months with a compromise.
  • In October 1895 there was a seven-day dispute in Münster over the curfew , the Münster beer war .
  • In 1907, the attempt by the Bamberg breweries to raise the price for 0.5 liters of beer from 10 to 11 pfennigs led to the Bamberg Beer War .
  • Due to a beer price increase of 2 pfennigs, the Dorfen Beer War broke out in 1910 .
  • On February 11, 1932, the majority of the innkeepers in Hamburg went on a beer strike to protest against the state-decreed reduction in beer prices. The strike lasted three weeks.
  • On February 25, 1932, the majority of the approximately 12,000 innkeepers in Berlin went on a beer strike in order to reduce the beer tax, which was around 20 Reichsmarks per hectolitre, by 5 RM.
  • In March 1960, 7,500 workers at the Maxhütte in Sulzbach-Rosenberg went out of work ( beer strike ) when the company's management wanted to restrict beer consumption for reasons of occupational safety. The strike ended 32 hours later when the Bavarian Labor Minister Walter Stain mediated between the parties.

Major litigation (excluding strikes or physical violence):

Others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hildesheim Beer Feud 1481–86 (PDF; 160 kB).
  2. ↑ Martin Munke : 1524: The Chemnitz 'beer riot' . In: Chemnitz history calendar. Calendar sheet October 2016 ( online at tu-chemnitz.de).
  3. ↑ pivovarnictví (brewing industry) . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
  4. ^ Karl Brinkmann: History of the brewing industry and the brewing industry in Bochum. In: Heimatbuch Bochum. Bochum 1954 ( online at bochum.de).
  5. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1230.
  6. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, pp. 499-528 and 1306-1308, here: pp. 525 f.
  7. ^ Franz Stadtmüller: The Corps Hansea II in Göttingen and the Göttingen beer riot of 1881. In: Einst und Jetzt. Volume 1 (1956), pp. 85-100.
  8. ↑ Ignatz Auer: Development and status of the Berlin beer boycott. In: Sozialpolitisches Centralblatt , No. 40 from 1894.
  9. ^ Goldschmidt, Friedrich: The beer boycott in Berlin. In: Deutsche Rundschau , No. 21, December 1894, pp. 448–454.
  10. ↑ Beer strike. In: Der Spiegel , March 16, 1960 ( online at spiegel.de).
  11. ↑ Birgit Speckle: Dispute about beer in Bavaria: moral concepts about purity, community and tradition. In: Munich contributions to folklore. Verlag Waxmann 2001, ISBN 3-89325-919-8 .