German Brewers Union

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German Brewers Union
(DBU)
legal form eV
purpose Abstinence movement
Seat Berlin
founding April 28, 1910

place Berlin
resolution December 9, 1911
president Rudolf Funke
executive Director M. Busemann
Members 796

The German Brewers Union was founded on April 28, 1910 in Berlin ( German Empire ). Rudolf Funke , General Director of the Berlin Schultheiss Brewery , was elected President of the Brewers' Union . In its heyday, the Brewers 'Union had over 790 members from the brewing industry , making it larger than the German Brewers' Association , which had around 460 members at the same time. The German Brewers Union set itself the task of fighting the excesses of the abstinence movement .

It was founded by the protection association of the North German Brewing Tax Community and related trades , whose tasks included fighting the excesses of the abstinence movement. To this end, a meeting was held in Berlin on March 26, 1910, which was also supported by the Breslau brewery owner Georg Haase, who had tried to act against the abstinence movement in previous years. In the course of the meeting, a working committee was set up under the chairmanship of Rudolf Funke. In the following years he sent out invitations to companies and organizations in the brewery industry, including malting houses .

68 delegates from around 50 brewery associations from all over the empire took part in the founding meeting on April 28, 1910 . There was close personal ties between the Brewers 'Union and the German Brewers' Association. Eleven of the members of the board of directors of the Brewers Union also belonged to the tax committee of the Brewers Association. Their first major appearance was during the International Hygiene Exhibition , which opened on May 6, 1911 in Dresden. The exhibits shown at the exhibition were given to the Deutsches Museum in Munich upon completion .

During the hygiene exhibition, the eleventh German Brewers' Day took place in Dresden from June 21 to 24, 1911. The merger of the Brauer-Union and Brauer-Bund was negotiated there. The negotiations were concluded on December 9, 1911 in the Kaisersaal of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Holger Starke : From the brewing trade to the brewing industry . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-17404-1 , p. 380 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Erich Borkenhagen: 100 Years of the German Brewers Association 1871–1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 , p. 57 .
  3. ↑ a b Holger Starke: From the brewing trade to the brewing industry . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-17404-1 , p. 378 .
  4. ↑ a b Erich Borkenhagen: 100 Years of the German Brewers Association 1871–1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 , p. 56 .
  5. ↑ Holger Starke: From the brewing trade to the brewing industry . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-17404-1 , p. 377 .