German Beekeeping Association
| German Beekeeping Association (DIB) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1907 |
| Seat | Wachtberg ( ⊙ ) |
| main emphasis | Promote beekeeping |
| Chair | Torsten Ellmann |
| Members | 120,700 (2018) |
| Website | deutscherimkerbund.de |
The German Beekeepers Association e. V. (DIB) is the umbrella organization of the German beekeeping / regional associations based in Wachtberg-Villip . Its purpose is to promote honeybees and to market local honey under the Echter Deutscher Honig brand . In 2019, 127,253 beekeepers with around 851,000 bee colonies belonged to the association through local, regional and regional beekeeping associations.
tasks
The registered association is a service provider for all beekeepers in Germany. According to its statutes, its task is to promote and disseminate beekeeping so that a species-rich nature is preserved through the pollination activity of the honeybees on wild and cultivated plants. As an umbrella organization, the association represents beekeeping interests at the political level, presents beekeeping to the public, promotes the sale of German honey under the association brand Echter Deutscher Honig and monitors the honey quality of honey that is sold under this brand. The association supports the activities of the individual beekeepers with advice on honey extraction and marketing, training, market research, and the provision of advertising, packaging and information material.
organization
The organization of the German beekeepers has a hierarchical structure. The lowest level is made up of around 2500 local associations with individual beekeepers as members. Above it is a district beekeeping association that is a member of the respective beekeeping / regional association. There are 19 regional associations, most of which are identical to the federal states :
- to bathe
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Hamburg
- Hanover
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania
- Nassau
- Rhineland
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saarland
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia
- Weser-Ems
- Westphalia
- Württemberg
The umbrella organization of the regional associations is the German Beekeeping Association. Most of the organized beekeepers belong to it, according to estimates around 95 percent. There is also a rather small proportion of people who practice beekeeping without belonging to a beekeeping association.
history
- Hiking meetings and central association
In the beginning there were several regional beekeeping organizations in German-speaking countries, which, because of their periodic meetings, called themselves hiking assemblies. The wandering assembly of German beekeepers was founded in Arnstadt in 1850 . In 1866 the name was changed to the Wanderer's Assembly of German and Austro-Hungarian Beekeepers . Due to this expansion, Abbot Gregor Mendel took part in the hiking meeting in Kiel from September 12th to 14th, 1871 . Mendel acted as deputy chairman of the Brno Beekeeping Association. The German Central Bee Association was founded at the 25th hiking meeting of beekeepers in Cologne in 1880 .
- German Beekeeping Association and Association of German Beekeeping Associations
In 1907, at a central beekeeping meeting in Frankfurt am Main, it merged with other associations to form the German Beekeeping Association , to which 83,000 beekeepers initially belonged. In 1914 this dissolved again and the Association of German Beekeepers' Associations (VDI) was founded, to which almost 240,000 beekeepers belonged in 1922. In 1925, under the presidency of Detlef Breiholz, the VDI was renamed the German Beekeeping Association and an initial design draft for the beekeeper honey jar was adopted . From 1926 the beekeepers affiliated with the DIB used the beekeeper honey jar as a so-called standard jar . This created the association brand “Real German Honey ”.
- Reichsfachgruppe Beekeeper
During the time of National Socialism beekeepers, like other small animal breeders were also brought into line . Local beekeeping groups became local beekeepers' groups , which in the German Reich were united in the Reichsfachgruppe beekeeping .
- After the Second World War
After the Second World War , the western occupation zones were renamed the German Beekeeping Association (DIB). In the GDR the beekeepers belonged to the state-controlled central association of small animal breeders . The breeding policy of the DIB had a decisive influence on the fact that the Carinthian bee ( Carnica ) spread as a neobiont in the entire German-speaking area in the years after the Second World War, and that the indigenous Dark European bee was almost completely exterminated by displacement breeding. The office of the DIB has been based in the newly built beekeeper's house in Wachtberg - Villip since 1991 , after having been based in Nuremberg , Syke and Bonn . The German Beekeeping Association publishes its news in the beekeeping journals Bienen & Natur, Deutsches Bienen-Journal , Die Neue Bienenzucht and in bee care as well as in the members' information sheet DIB AKTUELL .
President
- 1908–1912: Otto Sydow
- 1912–1922: August Frey
- 1922–1929: Detlef Breiholz
- 1929–1931: Gottfried Lupp
- 1931–1945: Karl Hans Kickhöffel
- 1933–1939: Karl Vetter (Federal Leader Reichsfachgruppe Beekeeper)
- 1948–1959: Leonhard Birklein
- 1959–1965: Heinrich Denghausen
- 1965–1968: Wolfgang Fahr
- 1968–1983: Fridolin Gnädinger
- 1983–2004: Erich Schieferstein
- 2004–2005: Ekkehard Hülsmann
- 2005–2008: Anton Reck
- 2008–2019: Peter Maske
- since 2019: Torsten Ellmann
Cooperations
In 2009 the German Beekeeping Association participated as a cooperation partner in the Be (e) in contact! the conservation youth . The aim is to attract young beekeepers by motivating young people, youth groups and school classes to start beekeeping . The German Beekeeping Association is a member of the German Farmers' Association .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaroslav Kříženecký: Gregor Johann Mendel 1822–1884: Texts and sources on his work and life. Barth, Leipzig 1965, p. 192.
- ^ Petra Friedrich: Torsten Ellmann elected the new President of the German Beekeeping Association. October 12, 2019. From DeutscherImkerBund.de ( PDF ; 565 kB), accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ↑ Other members. German Farmers' Association (DBV), accessed on February 5, 2018 .