Confédération Compagnonnages Européens

The CCEG (Confédération Compagnonnages Européens - European journeymen guilds) is one in 1968 in Paris European umbrella organization founded journeymen associations of journeymen .

Since 1978 it has been given a participating statute by the Council of Europe and registered with the Strasbourg District Court (Tribunal d'instance de Strasbourg). A European meeting is held every five years, which is alternately organized by a member to elect the president for the next five years. The current president is the Roland brother Ludwig Hense from Vlotho.

Members

• German-speaking area
  • Righteous foreign carpenters and journeyman slaters
  • Righteous foreign bricklayers and journeymen
  • Roland shaft
  • Foreign freedom shaft
  • Free Vogtländer of Germany
• France
  • Union Compagnonnique Des Devoirs Unis
  • Fédération Nationale Compagnonnique des Métiers du Bâtiment ( France )
• Belgium
  • Fédération Compagnonnique des Métiers du Bâtiment de Belgique ( Belgium )
• Scandinavia
  • Forenede Scandinavian handicrafts FBSH

Awards

• 2006: Gold medal of the European fair for restoration, monument preservation and urban renewal “denkmal 2006”, Leipzig

Exhibitions

• 2006: Participation with a stand at the "denkmal 2006", Leipzig

Web links

• CCEG, official web site
• Historical summary, purpose and means of the CCEG on the website of the Union Compagnonnique (French)