Master from the chair

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Portrait of Wichard Lange , in the Masonic clothing of a master from a chair (around 1873). Exhibited in the Museum of Hamburg History
Master from the chair

The chairman of a Masonic lodge is called a master of the chair (MvSt), chair master or lodge master . The Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany and the Grand National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” use the designation master of the chair .

The word comes from the English for chairman . Chairman named the chairman of a medieval construction works . Nowadays, the term Worshipful Master is common within English-speaking Freemasonry .

The master of the chair directs the Masonic work and calls it up. In the assembled box he has (symbolically) his seat in the east .

Usually he is elected by the lodge members and usually holds office for two or three years. In most Anglo-Saxon lodges the master changes his chair every year; Occasionally, the assignee is elected for a further year after the first term of office. The badges of the MvSt. are the first hammer of the lodge and the square measure that he wears on a ribbon on his chest.

At the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany (Freemason Order) the lodge master elected by the brothers is called chairman Meister .

See also

literature

  • Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich / Leipzig / Vienna 1932, DNB 361156049 , revised. and exp. New edition at Herbig, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
  • Jürgen Holtorf: The Masons' lodges: influence, power, discretion. Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930656-58-2 , p. 24 f.