Food Association Germany

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Food Association Germany
logo
legal form Registered association
Seat Berlin
founding March 10, 1955

place Nuremberg
president Philipp Hengstenberg
St. Ver. : Rolf Lange
Board Further board member ( deputy ):
Gerald Dohme
Georgios Doukas
Andreas Master Serious
Norbert Reiter
Charlotte Rosendahl
Silvia Wiesner
Michael Wippler
Treasurer:  Susanne Langguth
executive Director Christoph Minhoff ( HGF )
Marcus Girnau ( Deputy HGF )
Angelika Mrohs
Peter Loosen (Brussels Office)
Members 80 associations, 250 companies and 150 individual and corporate members (2019)
Branch Brussels
Website http://www.lebensmittelverband.de/

The Food Association Germany is the leading association of the German food industry in the legal form of a registered association based in Berlin.

history

The association was founded in 1955 under the name Bund für Lebensmittelrecht und Lebensmittelkunde as the successor organization to the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders ( Nuremberg Federation for short ), which existed from 1901 to 1945. The founding meeting took place on March 10, 1955 in the Grand Hotel Fürstenhof in Nuremberg.

Surname

  • 1901–1936: Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders
  • 1936–1945: Association of German Food Manufacturers and Dealers for Food Science and Food Law
  • 1955–2019: Federation for Food Law and Food Science
  • since 2019: Food Association Germany

Predecessor organization: Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders

Representatives of the German food industry and the food trade founded the Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders in the Frankfurter Hof in Frankfurt am Main on May 19, 1901 . V. as an umbrella or central association with the aim of strengthening the interests of both areas of the food chain. The food chemist Robert Kayser was appointed as the first managing director. The office was in Nuremberg, which is why the association was later given the short form Nürnberger Bund . From May 1, 1903, the association published the German Food Review as an association journal. On December 7th, 1902, the association decided at its second general meeting to publish a common set of rules for the industry. As a result, the German Food Book was published in autumn 1905 .

Forced renaming in 1936: Association of German Food Manufacturers and Dealers for Food Science and Food Law

During the time of National Socialism , the association was affected by the harmonization and restructuring of the association : in 1934 the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture recognized the food industry group within the Reich Industry group as the sole representative of its branch of industry. The specialist groups and specialist subgroups of the WG Lebensmittelindustrie took the place of the independent associations. The Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders was seen as a special purpose or professional association for legal and scientific issues and was allowed to continue to exist, but lost its economic and political function. Subsequently, with an amendment to the statutes adopted on December 2, 1936, the association became the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Dealers for Food Science and Food Law. V. renamed. His association magazine German Food Rundschau (from January 1936 German food Rundschau ), the Association had in 1936 together with the economic group food industry issue. After the war ended in 1945, the association was dissolved.

Re-established in 1955 as the Federation for Food Law and Food Science

On March 10, 1955, the umbrella organization was founded under the name Bund für Lebensmittelrecht und Lebensmittelkunde e. V. re-established by representatives from the food industry, trade and trade. For reasons of tradition, the founding meeting took place in Nuremberg, where the office of the predecessor association had existed. Walter Kraak (Dr. Oetker) was elected the first president, who held the office until 1979.

From 1955 to 1977 there was a personal union between the management of BLL and the Federal Association of the German Food Industry (BVE). In 1994 the offices were merged again and from May 1, 1994, both associations were led by one managing director in personal union.

Booth of the Food Association Germany at the International Green Week 2020 in Berlin

Since 1998, the association has been represented annually together with the Federal Association of the German Food Industry at the International Green Week in Berlin, where it comes into direct contact with consumers as well as representatives from politics and non-governmental organizations . From 2007 to 2012 the topic of the joint stand of the two associations was “Power for Life - Eating and Moving” , from 2013 to 2017 “Dialog Food” , from 2018 “How will the future taste?” .

In August 2010 the association completely relocated its office from Bonn to Berlin, where an office in the capital had existed since 2005.

In January 2019, the association launched its own online magazine, the food magazine .

Renaming 2019: Food Association Germany

In May 2019, the association decided to change its name to the German Food Association with an amendment to the statutes decided at its general meeting . The renaming was completed in July 2019 with the entry in the register of associations. The accompanying rebranding process with a new logo and branding was honored with the Rebrand 100: merit award at the 2020 Rebrand 100 Global Awards .

History in the 2020s

In 2020, the Food Association Germany started a new awareness and action day on July 31st with the Day of Food Diversity, which is intended to draw attention to the variety of food on offer in Germany and Europe. In addition to numerous German associations and companies such as the German Farmers' Association , the German Raiffeisen Association and Coca-Cola Germany , the Association of the Food and Beverage Industry (food industry) of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce took part in the first event . The day of food diversity is to take place every year on 31 July.

profile

According to the association, its members include 80 interest groups , 250 companies as well as 150 individual and corporate members. They come from the fields of agriculture , the food trade , the food industry , the food trade , supplier areas, the packaging industry, the chemical industry , private research laboratories, law firms and publishing houses. Funding is provided by the members from the food industry such as agriculture, industry, gastronomy, but no figures are disclosed.

In the association offices in Berlin and Brussels , lawyers and natural scientists work together on an interdisciplinary basis. Her areas of responsibility include the development of German, European and international food law . Members of the association regularly work on the further development of the German Food Book , the regulations of which represent a decisive basis for the operational activities of many association members.

organization structure

General meeting and board of trustees

The ordinary general assembly, which takes place once a year, makes the fundamental decisions of the association. It elects the board of trustees, which has an advisory role and makes decisions on fundamental content-related and political issues. The board of trustees consists of 32 people from all areas of membership as well as the chairman of the legal committee.

Board

The board of directors is an important body of the food association. This consists of the President and up to seven deputies (two each from the food industry and food trade and one each from the food trade and agriculture) and the treasurer.

The presidents of the association since it was founded in 1955:

Main management

The main management consists of a general manager and a deputy general manager. The current general manager of the food association is Christoph Minhoff . Marcus Girnau is the deputy chief executive officer.

The main managing directors of the association have been since it was founded in 1955:

  • 1955–1976: Günther Klein
  • 1977–1982: Gerhard Hein
  • 1983–2012: Matthias Horst
  • since 2012: Christoph Minhoff

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board of the German Food Association consists of over 40 honorary, ad personam representatives from the natural sciences and law. They advise the association on fundamental questions from their respective disciplines.

Legal Committee

The Legal Committee deals with fundamental questions of food law that do not fall within the competence of individual specialist committees of the association. The members of the committee are appointed by the board of the food association for a period of four years. The chairman of the legal committee is a member of the board of trustees.

perception

As a business association, it represents the interests of its members in the food industry. From the side of the economy, but also from science, here especially from representatives of the nutritional and legal sciences, its importance for economic policy and scientific seriousness is emphasized.

Individuals, individual NGOs such as Foodwatch and opponents of green genetic engineering express themselves negatively and even scandalize the association and accuse it of influencing legislative procedures. According to media reports, Greenpeace received an internal paper on the subject of genetic engineering in 2003 that showed the association's participation in pro-genetic engineering campaigns.

Online magazine Lebensmittelmagazin.de

Under Lebensmittelmagazin.de the Association published a since January 2019 online magazine on the subject food and nutrition. Articles, stories and reports on the food industry appear here, from agriculture to the food trade and gastronomy. Formats related to economic , food and consumer policy also appear in the video section .

Web links

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  1. ^ A b Food Association Germany: Members .
  2. ^ Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland department: Federation for food law and food science
  3. ↑ a b c BLL: Over 100 years of association history - from the Nuremberg Federation to the BLL .
  4. ↑ Food Association Germany: Statutes (edition 2019)
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Rabe (2005): 50 years of BLL . In: BLL (Ed.): In terms of food: 50 years BLL. Speeches and lectures on the occasion of the 2005 annual conference . Online at: [1] . Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  6. ^ Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders e. V. (Ed.) (1905): German Food Book . Carl Winter publishing house, Heidelberg.
  7. ↑ Food Association Germany (March 10, 2020): 65 years of the Central Association of the Food Industry .
  8. ^ Association of German Food Manufacturers and Dealers for Food Science and Food Law e. V. (Ed.) (1936): Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau. No. 23, 1936, p. 284.
  9. ^ Association of German Food Manufacturers and Dealers for Food Science and Food Law e. V. (Ed.) (1936): Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau. No. 2, 1936, pp. 1-2.
  10. ↑ a b c BLL (Ed.): 60 years - 60 votes . German specialist publisher, 2015 Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-8005-1610-0 , pp. 14-15.
  11. ↑ BLL / Wilhelm Gieseke (2015): The "living together" of BLL and BVE. (On-line).
  12. ↑ BLL / Marcus Girnau (ed.) (2013): Festschrift for Matthias Horst . Hamburg: Behr's Verlag, p. VII.
  13. ↑ International Green Week (January 5, 2017): History of the Berlin International Green Week: From a local commodity exchange to the world's leading trade fair ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruenewoche.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
  14. ↑ BLL: Events / Fairs . Last accessed: January 5, 2018
  15. ↑ Fleischwirtschaft (December 8, 2017): IGW - How does the future taste? .
  16. ↑ a b online magazine Lebensmittelmagazin.de
  17. ↑ Lebensmittel Zeitung (May 9, 2019): BLL renames itself and appoints new president .
  18. ↑ Food Service (May 9, 2019): The umbrella organization is repositioning itself .
  19. ↑ Food Association Germany (July 10, 2019): BLL is now called Food Association Germany .
  20. ↑ Rebrand.com: Food Federation Germany. 2020 REBRAND 100: merit .
  21. ↑ Handelsblatt / dpa (July 30, 2020): Tens of thousands of new products annually - Food Diversity Day .
  22. ↑ German Farmers' Association (July 31, 2020): Food diversity begins in the country
  23. ↑ German Raiffeisen Association (July 30, 2020): Cooperatives guarantee variety in the field and on the plate - framework conditions must be right .
  24. ↑ Gastroinfoportal.de (July 31, 2020): Coca-Cola is celebrating Food Diversity Day .
  25. ↑ Association of the Food and Beverage Industry (food industry) of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (July 29, 2020): Food Diversity Day on July 31. New initiative started .
  26. ↑ cf. Membership overview on the association website (accessed on April 2, 2014).
  27. ↑ cf. z. B. Peter Mühlbauer : Fruit cream filling is a secret . Telepolis , March 10, 2010.
  28. ↑ a b c d BLL: 60 years BLL .
  29. ↑ Helmut Erbersdobler (2005): Editorial 05/05: 50 years of BLL ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ernaehrungs-umschau.de
  30. ^ Helmut Lorscheid (October 21, 2003): Campaign for Genetic Food . In: Telepolis .