Association of German Organ Builders

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The Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister eV (BDO), based in Munich, is an association of German organ and organ pipe builders and their suppliers. It currently has over a hundred workshops across Germany. He represents the interests of German organ building towards all relevant institutions, such as clients, organ experts and authorities.

history

The Association of German Organ Builders was founded in 1895 after organ builders had held regular meetings since at least 1890. In 1896 the association was entered in the association register. At the first annual meeting after the First World War , in 1919, a new organizational form with eight district associations was decided: Baden, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, East, Rhineland, Saxony-Thuringia, Westphalia and Württemberg. At the same time the name was changed to the Association of Organ Builders in Germany . The association was dissolved in 1943 by order of the Reich Ministry of Economics. In 1946 it was re-established under the current name of the Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister .

aims

Every independent master organ builder, regardless of the size of the company, can become a member of this association. It was a voluntary association that took on cartel-like features. The aim was to establish a minimum price agreement in order to be able to produce at this price level or above. Large companies tried to protect themselves against price undercutting by small organ builders, which often worked close to their subsistence level. Attempts were made to enforce the established order with draconian penalties: If the price was undercut, the company in question was not only threatened with immediate exclusion from the BDO, but attempts were even made to shut down the companies concerned.

Today the BDO has completely different tasks: Well-founded training courses in industrial or occupational medicine areas are carried out, standards and dimensions of organs and organ parts are redefined, the quality standards in organ building are presented at trade fairs and exhibitions and many other accompanying measures that promote German organ building. An example of this is the advocacy of a special permit for the further use of lead by organ builders.

Since October 2019, the first chairman has been the organ builder Jürgen Lutz from Feuchtwangen .

literature

  • Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders 1891–1991 . Organ building specialist publisher Rensch, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the founding meeting , In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol. 15, Leipzig, 1895, pp. 373–374.
  2. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer (1819−1901) and his work . Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt / Main 1978, ISBN 3-920-11269-5 , pp. 73-74.
  3. ↑ swp.de: Organ builders cannot do without lead , accessed on April 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ In: Ars Organi . Issue 67/4, December 2019, p. 275