German Bartender Union

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German Barkeeper Union e. V.
(DBU)
purpose Professional association for bartenders
Chair: Ulf Neuhaus ("President")
Establishment date: July 1953
Predecessor IBU: 1909
Number of members: about 1,000 (2019)
Seat : Lauffen am Neckar
Website: www.dbuev.de

The German Barkeeper Union e. V. (DBU for short, also DBU) is a professional association for bartenders in Germany founded in Hanover in 1953 . The forerunner is the - legally not independent - International Barkeeper Union (IBU for short), whose tradition dates back to 1909. From 1953 the DBU was a member of the international umbrella organization International Bartenders Association (IBA), but left it in 2018 due to content-related differences.

Goals and club structure

The DBU promotes the training and networking of its members on a national and international level and grants support to the bereaved of deceased members in the event of death. The DBU regularly organizes mix competitions for cocktails among its members , including the “German Cocktail Championship” as a club championship, the winners of which are named “Cocktail Masters”. In addition, the titles "Bartender of the Year" and "Bartender of the Year" have been awarded for some years now for members who have earned their merit. Outwardly, the DBU sees itself as representing the interests of the profession in public. Among other things, she advocates the recognition of the bartender as an independent training occupation , which has not yet succeeded (as of 2019).

Ordinary ("active") membership is only open to natural persons who work in the bar area and who can credibly prove this. For decades, membership was restricted to men; women have only been accepted since 1984. Representatives of the spirits industry and restaurateurs can become (passive) sponsoring members.

Regionally, the DBU is divided into twelve sections, usually from one or two federal states, and maintains a national office in Lauffen am Neckar . The club's chairman ("President") is Ulf Neuhaus, who in 2012 replaced his predecessor Bernhard Stöhr, who had been in office since 1996.

The official organ of the association is the Drinks magazine, published by the Swiss publisher Medienbotschaft Verlag & Events GmbH since 1985 , which is sent to members with an association supplement.

German Cocktail Championship

The German Cocktail Championship (DCM for short) is a national, club-internal mixed competition for professional bartenders, which is organized once a year by the DBU. The participants must have previously qualified in regional competitions (currently North, West, South and East Germany, as of 2018). The patron of the DCM is the Federal Association of the German Spirits Industry and Importers (BSI). Until the DBU left the international umbrella organization IBA, the DCM winners were sent as participants to the International Cocktail Competition (ICC) and later the World Cocktail Competition (WCC) of the IBA.

The DCM is subject to a comprehensive set of rules. In particular, the participants are not free to choose the products mixed in their competition drinks, but rather have to limit themselves to ingredients from the current partner companies of the DBU in the spirits industry “due to the interests of our partners and their portfolio”. Only non-alcoholic ingredients and cocktail bitters may be deviated from if they are not in the sponsors' range. Homemade ingredients are not allowed.

history

International Bartenders Union

In 1909 five bartenders founded the International Barkeepers Union (IBU, also abbreviated IBU) in Cologne . The model was the New York Bartender Union . The Germans Hans Schonfeldt, Emil R. Beltz and Toeska had previously served as bartender (Engl. Bartender in the) United States worked; the Americans John Leybold and Fred Wood-Bilton worked in Germany at the time. In 1913, Hans Schönfeldt and John Leybold published the Lexicon of Drinks , the first bar book to appear in Germany, which was considered the standard work for the profession for many years. In addition to numerous recipes for mixed drinks, it also contained specialist knowledge of work techniques and bar equipment as well as sources of supply for bar tools . In the book the union in several places, including a full-page reference to the Cologne office is (also the headquarters of the International Gastronomic Director-Association ) "International Bartender 's called -Union". The spelling "Internationale Barkeeper-Union" (without S) apparently only established itself later, but it also appears in the book, in the name of a cocktail: the boarding school. Barkeeper Union Cocktail by Max van As made of 3 ⁄ 4 Old Tom Gin (a slightly sweetened gin variant) and 1 ⁄ 4 vermouth , which was refined with some dashes Curaçao and cherry brandy and should not be confused with the IBU that is known today -Cocktail made from brandy , apricot brandy , sparkling wine and orange juice. This is said to have been created in 1936 on the occasion of the Summer Olympics in Germany.

From 1914 the IBU published a weekly newspaper, the American Bar Journal . It was the first barkeeping newspaper in Europe and was also sent to other countries from Cologne. After an interruption due to the First World War , the IBU was reactivated in 1918 by the then Vice Secretary AT Neirath (Chairman from 1919) and resumed its business two years later. Due to economic difficulties, the decision was made to incorporate them as a sub-association in the International Geneva Association (IGV), a professional association for all hotel and restaurant employees. As a result, bartender sections were founded in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Dresden and Munich. In the 1920s, the "American Bar" experienced a heyday in Europe. In other national associations for the hospitality industry, which were united in the International Geneva Association, separate departments for bartenders were created, for example in Austria (Austrian Barkeeper Union, ÖBU, founded in 1926 and until 1975 in the Geneva Association), Switzerland (1927, to 1933 in the Geneva Association), Czechoslovakia, England (from 1933, 1934 foundation of the United Kingdom Bartender 'Guild , UKBG), France (1938 as Amicale des Barmen de France , AFB) and Spain. The German IBU soon had 200 members, saw itself as the “elite group” of the Geneva Association and in 1928 received its own statutes. Before that, however, the Geneva Association in Germany was merged with the UG Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Employees' Association .

In 1933 a delegation of German bartenders took part in the then largest cocktail competition in Madrid, at which bartenders from 35 nations were represented and 800 recipes were tested, and won several plaques and prizes. In 1934, the Barkeeper Union was represented with a sample bar at the International Culinary Art Exhibition in Frankfurt (Main). The last major event for the time being was the participation in the exhibition Die Küche der Welt in Berlin with a “large garden bar” in 1936 . After that, the IBU had to cease its activities. According to the long-time DBU President Jürgen Falcke, bartenders were “suspicious because of their diverse international contacts”; The reason given on the DBU website is that they “worked with spirits whose manufacturers did not match the ideology of the National Socialist German Labor Front ”. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, it was only possible to maintain contact between members at a local level, for example through the Hamburg bowling club Mixing Cup .

After the end of the war, Fred Friede, a member since 1924 and on the board of the old IBU since 1931, tried to reactivate the association. The Hamburg Section was founded on December 13, 1948, and others followed over the next few years. At the first nationwide post-war conference in Hamburg in 1950, the main tasks were to establish contact with colleagues abroad and to promote the next generation of professionals. On December 20, 1950, the Munich Chamber of Commerce and Industry took the first bartender examination on the initiative of the IBU .

German Bartender Union

Former logo of the German Barkeeper Union. It was registered as a trademark in 1965 and used until 2014.

In the meantime, numerous new bartender associations had formed in Europe, which merged on February 24, 1951 to form an international umbrella organization: the International Bartenders Association (IBA). In order to join it, the IBU had to rename itself. In July 1953, the Deutsche Barkeeper-Union e. V. with Fred Friede as the first "President", separated from the International Geneva Association and joined the IBA in 1953. Since 1952 a regular monthly bulletin has been published, the DBU . From now on, German bartenders were again increasingly represented in international competitions. In 1959, Charly Waidmann received first prize at the International Cocktail Competition (ICC) in Copenhagen for his “Petit Fleur” cocktail.

The IBA Cocktail World Championships were held four times in Germany: 1952, shortly before the DBU was founded, 1962 and 1984 - on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the DBU (calculated since 1909, the year the IBU was founded) - in Hamburg and most recently in 2009 as the 35th World Cocktail Competition (WCC) in Berlin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the association.

In 1977 the size of the club newspaper DBU was reduced, in 1985 it was replaced by the magazine Drinks . In the meantime, since 1984, the association has also allowed women, usually called "barmaids" in the bar profession, as members. In 1990 the Baden-Baden section organized the first International Barmaid Festival in Stuttgart at the Intergastra trade fair . Mainly due to accession from the new federal states as a result of German reunification , the proportion of women among the members rose to around a fifth in 2002, from a total of around 1,400 DBU members at that time. In the following years, the number of members of the DBU showed a downward trend, despite the resurgence of bar culture in German-speaking countries; At the beginning of 2019, around 1,000 members were still organized in the association.

In 2014 the corporate design of the association was revised. The new logo shows a coat of arms with an optically to the federal coat of arms resembling eagle whose body a cocktail shaker forms, including two crossed bar spoon and a martini glass .

In 2017 the DBU presented "The Bar Handbook for Beginners". The self-published publication by Cocktailkunst, a company of the bartender Stephan Hinz , is aimed primarily at trainees in gastronomic professions and is made available to vocational schools free of charge. In addition to the presentation of some branded spirits from DBU-related companies, a product knowledge and work instructions for budding bartenders, 35 cocktail recipes are included, including standard recipes for the "30 most important classics". The DBU reacted to the fact that very different recipes were circulating at the bar schools. Previously, only the IBA, the international umbrella association for bartenders, had defined standard recipes (see Official IBA Cocktails ).

Leaving the IBA

In February 2018 the DBU decided to end the cooperation with the international umbrella organization IBA after 65 years, as all twelve regional DBU chairmen considered its "content orientation and teaching methods [...] to be out of date and no longer compatible with their own objectives" . The separation from the IBA took effect at the end of 2018.

As a result of this departure, the Gilde der Deutschen Barkeeper e.V. was founded in 2019 with the participation of some prominent DBU members, including the former DBU President Bernhard Stöhr and the operator of the Rostock Bar School, Uwe Voigt . V. a new German-speaking barkeeper association, which had around 50 members shortly after it was founded and which in turn was trying to become a member of the IBA.

literature

  • Eric H. Bolsman: Lexicon of the Bar . 8. revised Ed., Matthaes-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-87516-601-9 . For the history of the bartending organizations, see pp. 12–16.
  • Jan G. van Hagen: The Bols Book of Cocktails. Forty years of winning recipes from the IBA. Bols Royal Distilleries (Public Relations), Nieuw-Vennep (Netherlands), 1992 (English). The volume was published on the 40th anniversary of the IBA. For the history of the bartender organizations, see pp. 15–48.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  6. ^ John Leybold, Hans Schönfeldt: Lexicon of drinks . Self-published, Cologne 1913.
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  13. ↑ Fierce competition for soft drinks . Newspaper report on the 1984 World Cup in Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt from 20./21. October 1984, p. 5.
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