Humanitas (Grand Lodge)

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Humanitas (also: Freemason grand lodge Humanitas for men and women ) is a liberal Freemason grand lodge in Germany and a member of the supranational association Catena . The Lodge is a registered association based in Frankfurt am Main .

history

On March 14, 1893, with Le Droit Humain, modern freemasonry for men and women came into being. This grand lodge established lodges all over the world in the following years. On the occasion of an Esperanto congress in Frankfurt am Main , the first Le Droit Humain lodge in Germany with the name "Goethe" was founded in 1921 . Further lodges in Hamburg ("Hamsa", 1924) and Berlin ("To the knowledge", 1928) followed. The lodges were inactive during the Nazi period 1933–45.

The lodges Goethe zum Flammenden Stern in Frankfurt, Pythagoras in Darmstadt and Henri Dunant in Munich, which were re-established after the Second World War , left Le Droit Humain and merged on October 24, 1959 to form the Grand Lodge Humanitas for men and women . The Hamsa lodge initially remained with Le Droit Humain , but founded the Grand Masonic lodge for men and women in 1993 together with the Berlin lodge Zur Knowledge , the Heidelberg lodge Zum Geistigen Licht (later renamed Carpe Diem! ) And a spin-off from the Karlsruhe lodge Zur Truth - Germany and dissolved - together with this grand lodge in 1996.

The Grand Lodge Humanitas now includes the following boxes:

  • Goethe to the Flaming Star in Frankfurt / Main (founded 1921). Oldest lodge for men and women in Germany.
  • To the knowledge in Berlin (founded 1928). Third oldest lodge for men and women in Germany.
  • Mozart on the three roses in Munich (founded 1956 under the name Henri Dunant ). Fourth oldest lodge for men and women in Germany.
  • Lessing at the Gate to the World in Hamburg (founded in 1974 as a spin-off from the second oldest lodge for men and women Hamsa (1924–1996))
  • Comenius on tolerance and friendship in Karlsruhe (founded 1985)
  • Clavis Argentum in Bremen (founded in 2002 as a lodge of the Sovereign GrossOrient of Germany )
  • New workshop in Leipzig (founded 2003)
  • Phoenix for light and love in Hamburg (founded in 2006 as a spin-off from Isis and Osiris )
  • New Temple of Salomon in Cologne (founded in 2010 as an independent lodge, then conversion)
  • Metamorphosis in Hamburg (founded 2012)
  • Saint Germain in Augsburg (founded 2013)
  • Minerva on the Rhine and Main in Mainz (founded in 1969, dormant from 1990, reactivated in 2014)
  • Under the sign of the opal in Bielefeld (founded 2016)
  • Jacques de Molay in Augsburg (founded 2017)
  • Fidelitas in Zurich (founded 2017)
  • Hermes Trismegistos in Hamburg (founded 2018)

Dissolved lodges

The following lodges were dissolved:

  • Catena Humanitatis Universalis in Saarbrücken (founded 1964, dissolved 1967)
  • Akhenaten for Unity (formerly Pythagoras ) in Darmstadt (founded 1960, dissolved 1969)
  • Hermes Sophia in Madrid (founded 1989, dissolved 1992)
  • Masonic Circle in Seville (founded in 1991, dissolved in 1992)
  • Immanuel Kant in Berlin (founded 1999, dissolved 2007)
  • Sirius in Saarbrücken (founded in 1989 as a lodge by Le Droit Humain , transition 2001, dissolved 2009)
  • Korbinian zur alten Quelle in Freising (founded in 2012, merged with Mozart in 2016 to form the three roses )

Well-worn boxes

The following boxes have resigned:

  • To the truth in Karlsruhe (founded in 1976 as a lodge by Le Droit Humain , self-employed in 1997, transfer to Humanitas 1998, resigned in 2008, first self-employed, then to the Grand Orient de France )
  • Isis and Osiris in Hamburg (founded in 1991 as a spin-off from Lessing at the gateway to the world , left in 2012 as a women's grand lodge in Germany )
  • Parsifal in Mannheim (founded in 1992 as a lodge by Le Droit Humain , transferred in 2000, left in 2012 to Le Droit Humain, dissolved in 2015)
  • Leonardo da Vinci in Vienna (founded 2007), transferred in 2012, left in 2018

further activities

The Grand Lodge Humanitas has been a member of CLIPSAS, an association of 90 liberal Masonic Grand Lodges around the world, since May 1987. In addition, Humanitas co-founded the international Freemasons Union CATENA in 1961, which currently comprises seven European grand lodges.

The Grand Lodge Humanitas was also the godfather for the foundation of the "Austrian Order Humanitas for mixed Freemasonry for men and women" in 1972. This grand lodge grew out of the "Lux Danubiana" lodge, founded in 1959 with the help of Humanitas members, and in 1989 also joined CLIPSAS.

The Grand Lodge Humanitas was also successfully involved in founding the Czech Grand Lodge Humanitas.

literature

  • Joseph Nikolaus Jakob Schmidt: Roots of the Masonic Community, Review and Outlook. Origo Verlag, Zurich 1961.
  • Edwin A. Biedermann: Lodges, clubs and brotherhoods Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004.
  • Franjo Terhart: Freemason Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag Kreuzlingen / Munich, 2004.
  • Tom Goeller: Freemasons - clearing up a myth be-bra Verlag Berlin-Brandenburg, 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ CLIPSAS website
  3. ^ Website of the Freemasons Union CATENA
  4. ^ Website of GL Humanitas
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