German Brewers Association

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German Brewers Association V.
(DBB)
logo
legal form Registered association
purpose Perception and promotion of the common interests of the entire German brewing industry
Seat Berlin
founding July 27, 1871

place Dresden
president Jörg Lehmann
executive Director Holger Eichele
Members 12
Organization type
  • 5 member associations
  • 1 professional association
  • 6 brewery groups
Website www.brauer-bund.de

The German Brewers Association (DBB), based in Berlin, is an association of member associations and direct members of the brewing industry . Member associations are regional associations and professional associations of the brewing industry, direct members are companies and groups in the brewing industry that produce at least 3.5 million hectoliters of beer annually. Jörg Lehmann has been its President since June 2017. It was chosen on the occasion of the annual meeting of German brewers on June 29, 2017.

history

Efforts have been made since the 1850s, including through the publisher Johann Carl, to create a brewers' association. After long negotiations, the founding of the Brewers' Association was planned for July 28, 1870. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War prevented this undertaking. After the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871, the founding assembly took place during the First German Brewers' Day in Dresden on July 27, 1871. Around 1000 brewers from all countries of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary , Russian Empire , Sweden , Belgium , Luxembourg , France , Switzerland and the USA took part in the meeting. The first president was Johann Stein. The Allgemeine Brauer- und Hopfen-Zeitung was chosen as the organ of publication . In 1934 the DBB was dissolved in favor of the newly created main association of the German brewing industry within the Nazi Reichsgruppe Industrie . It was re-established on April 1, 1949.

President of the DBB

tasks

Logo of the German brewers' prevention campaign of the same name.
  • Perception and promotion of the common interests of the entire brewing industry in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Promoting fair competition and combating unfair competition
  • Promotion of the exchange of experience, particularly in the economic, legal, business and technical fields
  • Preservation and promotion of the good reputation of German beer and advocacy for the preservation of the purity law

The members of the DBB have been operating in a market that has been declining slightly for many years: while in the 1990s every German still drank an average of 140 liters of beer, in 2016 it was only 104 liters.

Members

Today the association has twelve members, five of which are regional associations or societies, one professional association and six direct members.

Regional associations

  • Bavarian Brewers' Association
  • Brewery firm Mitte
  • Society of North German Breweries
  • South-West German brewing society
  • Association of Rheinisch-Westfälischer Breweries

professional association

  • Association of Export Breweries in North, West and Southwest Germany

Direct members

Bureau

The new Presidium, elected for three years in June 2011, supports the President in running the German Brewers' Association. It consists of the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer and other members. The election of the presidium takes place every three years by the assembly of delegates.

Members:

  • Jörg Lehmann, Munich (President)
  • Christian Weber, Homburg / Saar (Vice President)
  • Michael Hollmann, Korschenbroich (Vice President)
  • Mathias Keil, Kulmbach (Treasurer)
  • Axel Dahm, Bitburg
  • Peter Himmelsbach, Warstein
  • Jens Hoffmann, Bremen
  • Sebastian Holtz, Hamburg
  • Wolfgang Koehler, Darmstadt
  • Bernhard Schadeberg, Kreuztal
  • Georg Schneider, Kelheim
  • Matthias Schürer, Karlsruhe
  • Christian Schütz, Frankfurt / Main

“Ambassador” of beer

Since 2002, the association has been appointing the "Beer Ambassadors" on April 23rd, first on the "Day of German Beer", and since 2011 on the occasion of the German Brewers' Day in June of the respective year. This award is given to people who have shown exceptional commitment. This commitment can be, for example, an energetic and exemplary commitment to German beer or special voluntary, professional, social or political activities or future-oriented initiatives.

Memberships

The German Brewers Association is a member of the European Brewery Association and the European Movement Network .

Others

Health conscious diet

The Berlin Regional Court has Brauer-Bund the Germans to suit consumer centers prohibited in a competitive process to advertise as part of business operations with positive health effects of alcoholic beverages. With reference to the corresponding representations on the website of the Brewers Association, the court has forbidden the Brewers Association, among other things, to emphasize the beauty-promoting effect of beer, to point out its preventive effects against heart disease, gallstones and urinary stones as well as osteoporosis and the reduction of dementia and To advertise diabetes risk through alcohol consumption. According to the regional court, the objected advertising is not compatible with the rules of a European regulation on nutrition and health claims for food. The German Brewers' Association has appealed against the judgment because, in its opinion, the references to the positive health effects of moderate beer consumption are not to be understood as advertising, but as pure information.

Not a world heritage site

Since December 2012, the German Brewers' Association has been campaigning for the Purity Law to be registered as a world cultural heritage . The application for this was submitted by the Bavarian Brewers Association to the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art, along with the relevant expert opinion. However, the application was rejected because the jury got the impression that beer production in Germany is now very industrial.

literature

  • Erich Borkenhagen: 100 years of the German Brewers Association 1871–1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 .

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Brauer-Bund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Erich Borkenhagen: 100 Years of the German Brewers Association 1871-1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 , p. 24 .
  3. ↑ Organization and tasks. German Brewers Association, accessed December 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Your team in Berlin. German Brewers Association, accessed December 25, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b c members. German Brewers Association, accessed December 25, 2013 .
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  9. ↑ Erich Borkenhagen: 100 Years of the German Brewers Association 1871-1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 , p. 26 .
  10. ↑ Erich Borkenhagen: 100 Years of the German Brewers Association 1871-1971 . German Brewers Association, Bonn 1971, DNB  456163816 , p. 25 .
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  13. ↑ Salt is harmful. In: The time . November 11, 1988. Retrieved January 5, 2014 .
  14. ↑ a b Wolfgang Burgard elected to the board. In: Lebensmittelzeitung . June 17, 2008, accessed on January 5, 2014 (Paid offer).
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  16. ↑ https://www.reinheitsgebot.de/startseite/presse/pressemitteilungen/hohe-auszeichnung-fuer-dr-hans-georg-eils/
  17. ^ Brewers' Association elects new president. In: Lebensmittelzeitung . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
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  19. ^ Deutscher Brauer-Bund elects the Presidium and Board. German Brewers Association, June 22, 2011, accessed December 25, 2013 .
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  21. ↑ Welcome to the German Brewers' Association: Brewers appoint Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner as the new "Ambassador for Beer". Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Sigmar Gabriel is "Ambassador of Beer". Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Membership page in the EBD. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012 ; Retrieved October 6, 2010 .
  24. ↑ Landgericht Berlin: No advertising for positive health-related effects of beer (PM 81/2011). Senate of the City of Berlin , August 1, 2011, accessed December 25, 2013 .
  25. ↑ Public information is not advertising. German Brewers Association, August 2, 2011, archived from the original on June 2, 2012 ; Retrieved December 25, 2013 .
  26. ↑ Purity law for beer is to become a world cultural heritage. German Brewers Association, accessed December 25, 2013 .
  27. ↑ The purity law should become a cultural heritage . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 2, 2013 ( faz.net [accessed December 25, 2013]).
  28. ↑ Passing on knowledge and skills, interview with Christoph Wulf. Retrieved May 14, 2015 .